Name trends in 2000: A Matter of Taste
Name trends shows why a name survives in 2000 under “A Matter of Taste.” The figure beside that is 1880. Do not write a baby-name score as if it were a statute. Separate the name you register from the name you call. Headlines implied a world ranking no office produces.
How names move in time — SSA, ONS and Statistics Korea as dated frequency files, not as a live global leaderboard. Name trends are one of the cleanest cultural time series we have, because births are registered. The U.S. Social Security Administration’s published given-name files from 1880 are the most famous graph.
The Office for National Statistics (England and Wales) and Statistics Korea publish their own counts. Each is a jurisdiction and a year — not a world cup of names. This page teaches you to read those files the way Lieberson did: as taste cycles. It will not announce a current global number-one, because no such official exists.
A U.S. compilation of given-name frequencies based on Social Security card applications, published from 1880 onward with a lag. It is a historical series, not a crystal ball. The well-known baby-name release is for England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate publications. Say which office.
Say Name trends with 2000, “A Matter of Taste,” and 1880. Luck-stars are not those three.2000
Figures to keep
- Year of the rule
- 2000
- Figure on the name
- 1880
- Topic
- Name trends
- Line in the record
- A Matter of Taste
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