During lunch today, I took a whole bunch of SSA baby name data since 1880 and merged it all into the database software that we use. (I've only had the chance to do boys so far.) From this, three questions:
a) Of the most popular 100 baby boy names in the 1880s, how many are still on the top 100 list for the 2000s?
b) Of the most popular 100 baby boy names in the 1950s, how many are still on the top 100 list for the 2000s?
c) How many baby boy names were in the top 50 list for some decade between the 1880s and the 1990s, yet aren't on the top 1000 list for the 2000s?
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
