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I used this to search potential baby names, to intentionally avoid trendy names and find the unpopular options. It places a name in its position in the top 1000 names on SSA record by year, since 1900.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/

As I searched potential names and family names, I noticed interesting patterns where some names peaked and came down, others dipped then went back up, and others only appear in the top 1000 for only about 20 years at a time, then drop off. It made me think that there could be a cyclical, generational link in names. Obviously they change over time with language, but over many hundreds of years. In a generational view, we can look back over a full 124 years and see what the patterns are. Birth rates of M vs F is something I'm also curious about that may be interrelated.

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Prisoner24601 1y ago

It makes sense that this link would exist, given that names used to have meanings, and the meanings were picked based on the social changes and developments, events, etc.

Adam Snyder 1y ago

I think I read somewhere about a 4 or 5 generation cycle for names. I think it was a combination of "I know someone with that name and they're a jerk" and "that sounds like an old person name because a lot of people my grandparents age or older have it" that contributed to the rise and fall.