Popularity graphs revamped!

victoria, baby name, popularity graph

A day or so ago, I finally replaced the old popularity graphs (which were created way back in 2012) with brand new popularity graphs. Yay! Here are the main improvements:

  • The graphs are now responsive, meaning they’ll change size to match your screen dimensions. Phones will definitely need to be turned sideways to get the best view, though, because the graphs are so wide.
  • The graphs’ data points are now in alignment no matter what. This was not the case with the original graphs, which were getting more and more misaligned every year.
  • Better aesthetics! Nicer colors, cleaner design, no more ugly watermark, etc.
  • If you mouse over a graph, the data point values will appear as tooltips. Neat!
  • If you’re using a computer and you right-click on a graph, you can save it as an image — to share via social media, perhaps. ;)

Here are some random examples for you to check out: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy.

There are still several fixes I need to make, but overall the new graphs are working well. (If they aren’t functioning properly for you, please let me know.)

6 thoughts on “Popularity graphs revamped!

  1. You’re probably planning to fix this, but I noticed from the revamped graph that names that don’t appear in the SSA data are listed as ‘0’. This could be inaccurate since the SSA only releases names with 5 usages or more, so names that don’t appear in the data could have been used 1, 2, 3, or 4 times. I would suggest the graphs showing ‘<5' instead of '0'.

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