If, like us, you’re expecting a baby soon and want to look into the popularity of
baby names over the last 120 years there’s an excellent website that lets you investigate
and also choose from a number of names. Here’s the blurb:
The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager is
an interactive portrait of America’s name choices. Start with a “sea” of nearly 5000
names. Type a letter, and you’ll zoom in to focus on how that initial has been used
over the past century. Then type a few more letters, or a name. Each stripe is a timeline
of one name, its width reflecting the name’s changing popularity. If a name intrigues
you, click on its stripe for a closer look.