Hi everyone! Here’s a quick update on the baby name timeline project, which I started last October.
More than a third of the years on the timeline have been transferred to individual pages that feature (along with the names from the original timeline) several sets of rankings:
- Top 5 names overall (male & female)
- Top 5 absolute increases (male & female)
- Top 5 relative increases (male & female)
- Top 5 debuts (male & female)
Among the years I’ve converted so far are all of the 1880s, all of the 1890s, and all of the 1950s.
At this rate, I’ll need another couple of years (at least!) to finish upgrading the timeline. But it’ll be worth it, because the second version is going to be a lot more useful and interesting than the first. :)