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These name trend pieces are always sort of silly, because when you consider the scale it gets ridiculous. Yes 2017 marked a year in which Khaleesi was in the top 1000 names, but that's only with 466 names, that's still a mere 0.025% of female births. ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
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And Arya has long beat out Khaleesi, and been on the top 1000 list since 2010. At a rank of 135 in 2017, that is still a tiny .115% of names for a total of 2156 female babies. So this is pretty silly as a coverage topic nytimes.com/2019/04/29/style/game-of-thrones-baby-names.html
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To put it to real scale here, there just aren't *that* many babies named the same thing the same year. The most popular female name is Emma, it has been for 2014-2017 now. It only represents 1.053% of births, a total of 19,738.
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(that's in 2017, if that wasn't clear)
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These articles always make it feel like huge swaths of people are naming their kids after TV show characters, but there's so much weirder crap in the rank changes. Like Dream advancing 828 ranks YoY. Or Oaklynn advancing 1072 ranks. That's not even getting to the men.
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Looking at boys, Nova advanced 323 ranks. Wells increased 504. Reign 236. Ezequiel advanced a mere 80 ranks but is now 441th most popular name in America. All I'm saying is people who are probably named nothing like anyone you personally know are all over. ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/popularity_increase.html
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The top 5 names for female babies added together only account for a mere (19738+18632+15902+15100+14831) = 84,203 babies and does not even represent 5% of total births. America has a lot of babies.
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All that said, 27 Jennifers by Mike Doughty is still a good song, despite its statistical abnormality. open.spotify.com/track/0bje9XjoqDGj30sZwJDXqa?si=Sw31K8jkRe6a2EqF5Ia5EA
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A good way to look at this isn't 'boy some people have weird names' but more 'everyone's names are weird because we have a huge diversity of names in America so all names are weird to everyone'
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But maybe I'm just salty because you're still more likely to be named Khaleesi than Aram ;D
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