Names containing 'eigh', and births with them, peaked in 2019 and have declined 17% and 31% respectively since then according to the Social Security Administration's baby name data. The decline accelerated significantly after 2021, when the r/tragedeigh sub was created. Blog post with analysis, code, and commentary: https://nameplay.org/blog/past-peak-tragedeigh
Posted by Chronicallybored
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data: [Social Security Administration’s full name popularity dataset](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html) and [total Social Security card applications by year of birth](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/numberUSbirths.html)
tools:
* Analysis: Python, Jupyter, polars
* Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn
Good because it is stupid af
Damn did redditors achieve something good for a change?
If you still like it and want it in your baby name but want to mix it up can I suggest:
Eighden
Breighden
Greighson
Okay, that is an awesome website. Thanks to the bored quant that made it for fun. It is very slick.
I also looked into the ‘Aiden’ names (Kayden, Aiden, Graydon and so on) since those have been insanely popular. We are also well past peak Aiden’s, which is for the best. Aiden names hit over 4.5% of all US births several years ago and are now at about 3% and falling fast. The Ayden Kayden Brayden Okayden trend seems to be slowly falling off.
Can someone clever coin a baby boomer-esque term for this spike? The Make Ameighrica Greight Boom… etc.
Kids still have awesomely crazy names these days, or odd spellings of more traditional names.
Or they have the names of 1940’s bankers or lady riveters.
Really we’re now approaching the peak as our day to day perception of the prevalence of those names is only going to increase as they enter into the workforce in 18-25 years.
There may be hope for humanity after all!
We need a return to proper names, so that when people become adults, they sound like adults. Kyleigh Stevenson is an 8-year old kid forever. Balthazar Ezekiel Murderhound, on the other hand, probably had a full beard at birth. Balthazar owns land with stables, Kyleigh doesn’t have a job.
I’m curious if it will crash as hard as “Jennifer”
These names are the wypipo equivalents of LaKeisha and LaQuon.
Still praying to god it doesn’t migrate over here to England
‘I search one name and end up seein’ 20 tings Nadeigh, Christeigh, Justeigh, Kathleigh
Charleigh, Pauleigh, Claudeighe Man, I pack ’em in this phone like some sardeighs’ -Drake
I’m scared to learn what they moved on to….
Wolfram alpha has access to this database and lets you query it nicely.