![[OC] Popular Baby Names that Peaked in Each Decade](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/b7dx9w3uv75f1-1536x1097.png "[OC] Popular Baby Names that Peaked in Each Decade")
A collection of names of each gender that were products of a decade. Names were pulled based on popularity and degree to which a name's share of births fell within a particular decade. Names of each gender are colored by the decade in which they achieved their highest popularity, so, e.g., Todd and Tammy were both peaking in the 1960s, while Chad and Jennifer peaked in the 1970s.
Note: The axes for the two genders are on different scales because Jennifer was so wildly popular in the 70s and early 80s. Who knew?
Data Source: Social Security Administration Popular Baby Names (link)
Tool: Produced using R (ggplot2)
Posted by socjones
15 Comments
10,000 Jennifers are ready with a million more on the way
We’re all Chads in my book
Wow, I can connect like 5 family member names to the decades they were born. We’re not very original.
Surprised Sophia beat Emma
Data that is interesting and beautiful? Feels like I’m on the wrong sub 😅
Congrats OP
My boomer aunt and uncle are Larry and Judy
Thank God Aiden is on the downslope. Our nightmare is over.
erm where is michael? I guess they just removed that entirely because it’d screw up the boy’s data for decades?
Joseph has never been the most popular name, but hasn’t dropped out of the top 10 ever.
We’re the Dewalt Tools brand of names.
Never the best. Never the most popular. But always there hammering and screwing.
Every boomer I’ve ever met is named larry
Feel like the 70s gave us way more Christopher’s than Chad and Todd.
Interesting that girls names seem to spike way more than boys names do.
Nice! I messed around with this dataset when I was first learning R, never thought to group by decade. Diggin it.
This explains why everybody I know has an Uncle Larry and Aunt Debbie
Neat. But what is this data? Why were these popular names picked for the chart, and not say Dylan or Taylor? You are reporting that more parents named their children after Brittany Spears than Taylor Swift?
All I’m taking from this is that Karen hasn’t even begun to peak.