I peaked in the 40s at 63, bottomed out in the 80s at 294. In the 70s, when I was born, my name was at 204.
Mr. m has a pretty common name, though. His low point was 410 in the 10s, and he peaked at 21 in the 80s. He was born in the 60s, when his name was at 27.
Wow. Good writer’s resource. Want names for minor characters born in the thirties - bam! My grandmother would be pleased to see that the popularity of her name has increased in the last two decades. She lobbied to get me named after her without success.
Myrtle, Ethel, and Dorothy, on the other hand, appear to have nosedived.
Elizabeth is pretty consistent, though it isn’t my name.
Cool site. My name peaked in the 1900s at 87(I was born in the 50s).
1920s - 122
1930s - 133
1940s - 224
1950s - 293
1960s - 346
1970s - 448
1980s - 715
1990s - Not in top 1000 
But I predict a comeback!
Excuse me, I need to go look for everyone else’s name now. ::wanders away::
GT
Hmm, there seems to be a mistake in Margaret.
When it’s third, the point is lower down than it is when it is fourth. Try it and see what I mean. Strange.
My name, Lynn, peaked in the 50’s at 67. This site’s great!
Adolf seems to have declined in popularity
Wait, never mind. :smack: I just realised that it’s graphed by actual number of names, and not by its position.
slinks away
The year I was born, my name was at an all time high!
#17 in the world!
I am unique. I am special. I am unique. I am special …
#17 in the US, actually. The database is derived from public social security records or some such (so says the FAQ on the main page).
“I am so smart, I am so smart, S-M-R-T…!” -Homer Simpson 
My name has never been lower than 13th!
My son’s highest ranking is 325th, and that was after an enormous climb in 2003
Neither of my daughters even show up.
Go figure.
My name didn’t appear in the top 1000 till the 1950s, exploded into the top 50 during the 70s, and is just about ready to fall back off the chart again. Translation: just about everybody with my name is also my age.
Could be worse. Could be Jennifer. 2% of ALL GIRLS IN THE US born in the 70s were named Jennifer.
Also, all the spelling variants of my name peaked at the same time. Some of the variants HAVE fallen off the chart.
This is truly a 70s name.
My name was very popular in the 1900’s; today it’s not even in the top 1000. Makes sense considering I’m named after a woman who was born in the 1880’s. (I just wish people would quit assuming that my name is short for a longer, EXTREMELY-popular-in-the-70s-yet-very-unpretty girl’s name.)
My daughter’s name is in its heyday now, in the top 100 but in the bottom half so that’s ok.
Our (shared) middle name has never left the top 25 in the past 100 years.
Bible names seem to be making a big comeback. Lots of Elijahs, Elishas, Jeremiahs, Rachels, Hannahs, Isaiahs, Israels, and Josiahs running around.
What a fantastic website! My name peaked in the 60’s, at 23rd.
I’m a little confused about some of the graphs, though. I’ve noticed that sometimes one name is higher on the graph than another, even though it ranked lower. Take the Z names, for example. In 2003, ‘Zachary’ ranks 20th, and ‘Zachariah’ ranks 390th. On the graph, though, Zachariah is higher.
Am I just not understanding something? Or maybe the graph isn’t rendering correctly on Firefox…
Has anybody else noticed this?
Oh, wait, I just figured it out.
Duh. :smack:
Still, I think the scale on the right is a little misleading.
I never realized that the popularity of Brian was such a recent thing. It wasn’t even in the top 1000 just a while back. What happened?
My full first name doesn’t exist on their chart. The two halves of my name are each somewhere in the low-400’s.
My name (Laura), has just dropped out of the top 100 in the last decade:
That’s a neat site!
1900’s: 50
1910’s:61
1920’s: 75
1930’s: 99
1940’s: 89
1950’s: 39
1960’s: 15
1970’s: 19
1980’s: 23
1990’s: 45
2000’s: 122
Only in the US?
For some reason, that name became enormously popular in many non-English countries starting in the late ‘70s (probably some TV show’s fault). Two of my dorm-mates in college were chosen to be their nieces’ godmothers and wanted to call the poor kids Jennifer. We saved them from the grisly fate by informing the godmoms-to-be that the Spanish version is Ginebra, which is also the Spanish word for gin. One got Karen (sigh) and the other Catalina (Katherine), called Lin.
Well, this particular site only tracks US use, and that’s what I’m going by. I didn’t know it was so popular elsewhere too. Yikes.
What the hell sparked that?
Woo-hoo!! I score a zero in every decade! I guess the Welsh-American community never was going to be big 