I think this is kind of cool, and I dunno how much work would have gone into it...ect. But check it out. It will give you the popularty and frequency a particular name has had in the 100 years or so. Click anywhwere in the timeline if you like or type in a name at the prompt and see what happens.

Over here.

heh your name suddenly got popular!

Thats some serious ny graphing there !!

If I wasn't so lazy I'd like to know what went into building that....

type in 'Adolph' and check out how unpopular it became since the 1940's...I wonder why?

:P

cos of hitler prolly (his first name was adolph)

s*** Jim you're on the ball...man I never would have thought of that.

:P

The name Jim has also declined in popularity since the 1940s, Coincidence?

Heh, it's also funny to see that names like Courtney was a boys name and track the publishing of the book Peter Pan to the name of Wendy :p

Also Xavier has increased in popularity from the '70s and now it's zoomed right up with the re-release of cabbage patch kids.
(oh, that's right, you're boys. The Cabbage Patch Kids were 'made' by a guy called Xavier and his name is tattooed on their butt)

My name was ranked pretty high in 1930's (Between 60 to 70), now it's not in the top 1000, neat.

My name was never in the top 1000 :o(

Well now there are 113 people called Cruz. f***ing stupid Beckhams.

Noone seems to be naming their kids after kings anymore.

I knew a Charles once, he was pretty f***ing lame too !

cool, good find.

actually the name adolph looks like it was already on a sharp decline well before hitler probably had any chance at influencing it - in fact it shows the decline became far less abrupt after he did his thing

my name was ranked 3 in the 80's, ranked 4 in 2003.

my first name is most popular in the 50's & early 60's but drops off sharply in about 1965... that's when i was born & yet i never slaughtered any jews :(

well maybe you should