Increased Competition and Reduced Popularity: US Given Name Trends of the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Abstract In this paper, I identify changes in the naming of children in the US from 1880 to 2006. I identify the frequencies of the most popular given names in this period, and provide graphs of the male and female populations by names ranked in order of popularity, together with graphs showing the...
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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Names |
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| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1855 |