Nathan Yau made an interactive tool that will guess your name. You enter your sex and decade of birth, and then type the first letter. Not only will the tool guess your name, but you also get a percentage of its confidence in the guesses. If the algorithm doesn’t guess right, try a second letter to refine the results.
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This is based on data from the Social Security Administration, up to 2018. It’s relatively comprehensive, but there are a few limitations. First, it’s data for the United States, so the numbers don’t really apply elsewhere. Second, the SSA doesn’t include names with fewer than five people in a year, so the chart doesn’t cover more unique names. Third, there were no Social Security Numbers before 1935, so the name counts are fuzzier for years before that.
This thing guessed both my first and middle name (which begin with the same letter) on the very first try. So I entered data on my entire family and was astonished at how common our names were for their time, grandparents included. Only when I got to my paternal grandfather, who was born in 1901, did the real name not appear at the very top of the guesses. It was third. Check it out yourself at Flowing Data. -via Digg
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