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Name trends in 2000s: KOSTAT name tables

The spelling on a form and the sound in a classroom can differ. For Name trends the year of that difference is 2000s, the line is “KOSTAT name tables,” and the figure is 1880. A popularity rank is not a personality score. Oliver and Olivia appear among frequent England-and-Wales leaders in several 2010s releases — cite those years.

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.

Annual given-name frequency information that researchers use to watch Korean naming fashion, including shifts between Sino-Korean and native Korean names in dated years. Why do names rise and fall together? Lieberson’s A Matter of Taste: parents want distinction inside a style, so endings and neighbours move as clusters.

The two places are the register and the nickname. 2000s’s “KOSTAT name tables” splits them. The figure is 1880.2000s

Figures to keep

Year of the rule
2000s
Figure on the name
1880
Topic
Name trends
Line in the record
KOSTAT name tables

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