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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow popular is your name - From 2000 - 2021
My name, Joseph, is going down in popularity:
Year Rank
2021 28
2020 26
2019 24
2018 23
2017 19
2016 20
2015 21
2014 20
2013 20
2012 19
2011 22
2010 20
2009 15
2008 13
2007 13
2006 11
2005 9
2004 9
2003 6
2002 7
2001 8
2000 8
https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
Tetrachloride
(7,847 posts)I am dismayed that it rose to 30. Fortunately I am ahead of the rush.
Rhiannon12866
(205,518 posts)When I was first in school, nobody had my name, but by the time I was old enough to get my first job - a summer job at an amusement park - I knew that if I heard someone calling my name, they were likely calling a preschooler. That's when my name became popular.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,749 posts)But I had no idea how much.
It was #289 in 2000, but #3 now.
My name is Charlotte.
People who dont even know me love to call me Miz Charlotte
IcyPeas
(21,892 posts)[My name] is not in the top 1000 names for any year of birth beginning with 2000.
[My name] was a Top 50 name from around 1908 to 1930.
My name has been old fashioned since before I was even born.
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Joinfortmill
(14,432 posts)Emile
(22,789 posts)SamKnause
(13,108 posts)I have never met, or personally known anyone with my name.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)At first glance on the chart, I thought it was becoming more popular, but then I realised I was looking at it upside-down and it's actually becoming rarer.
It's possible that fewer boys are getting named after Ronald Colman these days.
Fla Dem
(23,691 posts)Most of the male names surprise me. While the female names seem to be more "modern" the Male names seem to be a throw backs to earlier years, i.e.; Benjamin, Oliver, Theodore, Henry, James. Much more conventional than the female names.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)But the list I saw only started in the year 2000. I doesn't go way back in antiquity to when I was named.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)Lucifer Hitler. I can't seem to find a ranking for my name.