How popular is the baby name Jackie in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Jackie.
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Blackstreet’s hit song “No Diggity” came out in 1996.
Toward the end of the song, you’ll hear the lyrics:
Jackie in full effect
Lisa in full effect
Nicky in full effect
Tomeka in full effect
(Most of the lyrics sites I checked had these specific spellings.)
Here are the popularity graphs for Jackie, Lisa, Nicky and Tomeka.
Which of these four names do you like best?
In 1969, dozens of “Mod Generation” stickers — each of which featured a drawing of a young person, and a first name — were distributed inside packs of Topps chewing gum.
Female names used on the stickers included Alice, Ann, Barbara, Betty, Connie, Diane, Donna, Dotty, Ellen, Esther, Fay, Frances, Gloria, Helen, Jackie, Joan, Judy, Lois, Marie, Mary, Millie, Minda, Nancy, Natalie, Phyllis, Rose, Shelly, and Susan.
Male names used on the stickers included Barry, Bert, Bill, Charlie, Chris, Dave, Don, Fred, George, Herb, Irv, Jerry, Joe, John, Larry, Louis, Michael, Paul, Pete, Ray, Richard, Roy, Teddy, and Tony.
While of these female and male names do you like most? How about least?
Sources: 1969: “Mod Generation” Stickers, Mod Generation – 1969
I’m not part of CrossFit (which is a fitness club that’s become trendy in the last few years) but I do know that many CrossFit workouts have human names.
The first set of named workouts — Angie, Barbara, Chelsea, Diane, Elizabeth, and Fran — were introduced by CrossFit founder Greg Glassman in September 2003. Next came Grace and Helen. In late 2004, Isabel, Jackie, Karen, Linda, Mary, and Nancy were added to the lineup.
Here are the workouts that correspond to each name:
Man, I’m exhausted just typing that.
Many more named workouts have since been introduced, but these 14 “girls” were the first.
What inspired Glassman to give his workouts female names? Hurricanes, actually. (Here’s more on the history of hurricane names.) Glassman was born in the mid-1950s, so it doesn’t surprise me that many of the names he chose (including my own!) sound a bit dated.
Now for the question of the day: Which is your favorite CrossFit workout name? Why?
And, if you’re a CrossFitter, which workout do you like best?
Sources:
Last month, FlowingData crunched some numbers to come up with the 35 most unisex baby names in the U.S. since 1930. Here’s the list:
I’m not sure exactly what criteria were used to create the rankings, but it looks like the top unisex names on this list were the top-1,000 names that “stuck around that 50-50 split” the longest from 1930 to 2012.
The FlowingData post also mentions that, though the data is pretty noisy, there might be “a mild upward trend” over the years in the number of babies with a unisex name.
**In 1957, Johnny Carson’s 5-year-old son Kim had his name changed to Richard because he’d been having “a little trouble over his name being mistaken for a girl’s.”
Source: The most unisex names in US history
Image: Adapted from Gallery 1 by Sarah Howells under CC BY-SA 3.0.
[Latest update: Nov. 2013]
