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Comment bougent les tendances

Classements, celebrites, backlash et la longue queue de la mode d'hier.

Classements, celebrites, backlash et la longue queue de la mode d'hier.

Historical popularity — teaching bands

Static public summaries for teaching cycles. Not a live popularity feed and not a ranking of living children.

United States — SSA girls, decade-ish #1 teaching list

  • 1970s — Jennifer
  • 1980s–90s — Jessica / Emily
  • 2000s — Emily
  • 2010s — Sophia / Emma
  • 2020s — Olivia

Illustrative public SSA summaries, not a live feed

Korea — generation style, not a live rank

  • Late 20th century — 영자 / 순자 style generation names
  • 2010s–20s — 서준 / 하윤 style two-syllable given names

Statistics Korea historical commentary, not live

Japan — script and kirakira as debate, not a table

Japanese given names sit in a long argument about 漢字 (approved jinmeiyō / jōyō characters on the koseki) versus invented or “kirakira” readings that surprise teachers and clerks.

That is a debate about script, register and readability — not a live ranking table of children who are in school today.

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