The History of Names

So I was hard at work as usual (perusing ESPN.com) when I came across a link to this site. It is a site that graphs the history of the top 1000 names each year since the 1880's.

For some reason this is completely fascinating and if you can go to the site and not spend at least 5 minutes typing in names of people you know then you are probably too dumb to type.

Here are a few examples:

The name Ryan didn't even enter the top 1000 until the 50's and peaked in the 80's at #14, but Michael has been no lower than #54 since the 1880's and has been #1 or #2 since the 1950's. By that logic Bitchsauce is a more popular person than Shitbox. Interesting.

"Kirk" peaked in the 70's at 146 and is not currently in the top 1000. That makes me original and cool as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway this thing is pretty fun to screw around with so I thought you might enjoy it.