Grandparent Names Are Coming Back
Hazel, Eleanor, Theodore, Arthur, and other older names show how baby-name fashion loops back around.
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Namecalling
Charts and notes on American naming culture, data, and the names that shape generations.
What Your Birth Year Name Says About You
The top baby names of each era are a cultural timestamp. Here is the chart version.
Baby Names That Vanished From America
A visual tour of once-common American baby names that collapsed from thousands of births to almost nobody.
The Kehlani Effect
How one celebrity name became a real American baby-name signal, and why most pop-culture names do not last.