1) Go to the Popular Baby Name page on the Find the Best website at http://popular-baby-names.findthebest.com/.
2) Enter your given name into the search box, click the appropriate gender button, and click on the "All" Decade button. Note the results for your given name.
3) Tell us about how the popularity of your name has changed over the decades. Were you named during the buildup, the height, or the drawdown of the popularity of your given name?
4) Share your results in a blog post of your own, in comments to this blog post, or in a Facebook status or Google+ Stream post.
I haven’t participated in Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for while
but this sounded like fun. In fact, it was so much fun, I got a little carried
away!
My first name—Denise—first appears in the Roaring 20s with a
rank of 967 and grows steadily until its peak in the 1950s at #26 in the
standings. It remains relatively stable in the 1960s and then begins a steady
decline in popularity each decade until the present with a ranking of 340. My
parents chose my name at the height of its popularity.
Jacqueline, my middle name, first appears in the rankings
for the 1900s at a rank of 652; beginning in the 1930s it is in the top 100
names and stays there through the 2000s bouncing around between a rank of 51
and 100.
Just for kicks, I checked on my younger sister’s given names
as well:
Jennifer, her first name, appears on the charts during the
1940s at #207, and increases to #1 in the 1970s, drops to #2 in the 1980s, and
in the 2000s has dropped to 37. She was named during the buildup of the
popularity of her name.
Her middle name—Jeannine—appears in the rankings from the
1920s to the 1970s, but the highest rank is 316 in the 1930s.
And to round it out, my son’s name—Christopher—is in the
rankings from 1880 through today, reaching the height of its popularity at #2
in the 1970s, staying there through the 1980s and 1990s, dropping to #5 in the
2000s. I chose his name at the peak of its popularity.
© 2012 Denise Spurlock
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