any good websites?

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Registered: 09-21-2004
any good websites?
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Wed, 01-18-2006 - 1:59pm
Do you know of any websites other than the Social Security Admin's to rank popularity of names? I seem to be a little out of the loop on what's popular! The only problem with SSA is that they list every spelling of the name seperately and I think that gives you "false" results. Thanks!
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Registered: 09-26-2005
Wed, 01-18-2006 - 4:14pm
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Registered: 09-13-2005
Wed, 01-18-2006 - 11:15pm

It's true!

I don't know of a reliable site that combines the spellings of essentially the same name, but if you are concerned about a particular name, try typing in a few spellings of the name- usually it suggests similar names (though it sometimes skips some obvious near misses- they *could* fix the algorithm, but hey) and tells you their rank. Then go back to the 1000 list- choose the option that shows the # of children with that name, and add up the totals for the different spellings, then find the approximate ranking of that number of births...time consuming, I know...I did it for Braden to prove a point to my DH and this is what came up:

Braden rank 153 #of babies 2597
Brayden 107, 4033
Braeden 324, 932
Braiden 667, 616
Braydon 417, 301
Braedon 706, 267
Bradyn 788, 226

total number of BRAY-dins: 8972, which really means it's around the 45th most popular name
(nevermind the Braidan, Braedan, Braedyn, Braydins that didn't make the top 1000 separately...)

Um, not that that helps you- just that you can figure it out from the SSA stuff if you're really concerned :P

-Si

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Registered: 12-16-2004
Thu, 01-19-2006 - 5:43pm

This is the only