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A colleague of mine from the National Puzzlers League hipped me to this cool site, which tracks the popularity of names, according to U.S. census information, from the 1800s to the present.
Notice that the popularity of "Adolph" falls sharply after the 1940s, and that "Ellis"---my middle name---really was popular in the 1890s, when my grandfather got it as his first name. And also notice---oh, hell; there's a bunch of stuff to notice. (And before anyone asks---on the NPL-folk listserv, it's been established that the popularity of "Mary" as a man's name is likely to be attributable to simple census error; people really do check the wrong box an awful lot of the time.) It's fun. Go play.
Notice that the popularity of "Adolph" falls sharply after the 1940s, and that "Ellis"---my middle name---really was popular in the 1890s, when my grandfather got it as his first name. And also notice---oh, hell; there's a bunch of stuff to notice. (And before anyone asks---on the NPL-folk listserv, it's been established that the popularity of "Mary" as a man's name is likely to be attributable to simple census error; people really do check the wrong box an awful lot of the time.) It's fun. Go play.
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