12/3/2001

It’s interesting to see how names have become more and less popular over time. To see this in dramatic detail, check out the Social Security Administration’s statistics on names.This page yields all sort of statistical goodness. John and Mary were the most popular child’s names from 1880 to 1924, although there was one year when William beat out John. Robert and Mary were tops from 1924 until 1943, when things got out of hand. From then on, deuces were wild and Lindas and Michaels started taking over.I don’t know how useful this might be to you, but when has that ever stopped me from posting something before!