Baby NameVoyager

I’ve posted about baby names a couple times now, including the American Idol contestant who included ‘Idol’ in her baby’s name and the Chinese couple who wanted to name their child “@”. However, if you’d like to see some names which are more on the common side, check out the NameVoyager on babynamewizard.com. Even if you don’t have a child on the way, it’s interesting to check out naming trends over time.

This cool little app lets you check out the popularity of names for each decade since the 1880’s on a graph of how many thousands of babies per million were given each name. Mouse over the graph from top to bottom to browse names alphabetically, and left to right to track it’s popularity over time. If you’ve got a particular name, you can enter it in the search box and check out the data for your moniker.

“William,” for example, was ranked number 10 in 2006, with four thousand of every million babies having that name.