Popularity of names in Japan, 2014-present
It’s hard to get a really full grasp of what names are popular or rare among Japanese babies, especially outside the big metropolitan areas…
Top 500 names in Spain, 2012-present
Spain’s INE has the official top 100 baby names published every year, but are you curious to find out which names rank the top 500? This research project started back in September of 2020 and it only contained the top 500 names from 2015 to 2019 (to be more accurate, 2015-8 but I waited until […]
Popularity of names in Spain by province/autonomous city, before 1930-2010s
A century of modern Spanish baby naming, split by province and autonomous city, now ready to be viewed. This research project took me a few weeks to gather all of the data available and several days to put in the finishing touches that you’ll see in the file linked below. This blog post is published […]
Popularity of names in Lithuania, 1931-present
91 years of modern Lithuanian baby naming all wrapped in one spreadsheet file for your viewing pleasure…
Popularity of names in Iceland, 1765-1834
It’s Christmas Eve as I type this little blog post…to share my holiday gift to all of you what read through my blogs this year.
Popularity of names in Japan, 2014-2020
This post has been superseded. The link to the new and updated post can be clicked here.
Top 500 names in Spain, 2015-2019
This post has been superseded. The link to the new and updated post can be clicked here.
Popularity of names in Sonsonate (El Salvador) and Puno (Peru), 1980s*
A similar project to my Nicaraguan one but more localised, separated into two different municipalities and decade-focused.
Name of the Year 2020
This ‘Name of the Year’ post is going to be a no-brainer, so let’s jump right into this, shall we?
Popularity of names in Nicaragua, 2000*
Why the * at the end? You’ll find out in a moment, but in essence, this post is about what names parents in Nicaragua chose for their babies in the year 2000.
Maybe it is Daijirō (aka Maks) 