I wrote a program!

For the first time in seventeen years. It was very exciting (for me, and Colin; I don't expect you to be excited).

It's a programme[*] that takes the name data for new babies, compares the registered-as-boy data to the registered-as-girl data and gives you an output of the names given to both boys and girls, in the order of most similar numbers. So it starts with the names given to equal numbers of boys and girls, and so on. I've just realised that what I really wanted is a ratio rather than absolute numbers, but I wrote absolute numbers. Which means that Bobbie (43 girls, 34 boys) looks the same as Kendal (13 girls, 4 boys), for example.

Anyway: here's some data. This is from England and Wales in 2011. I don't think 2012 is out yet.
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2012 data is out, here's the answer:
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[*]Do I have to settle on one spelling?

More on baby names

This is the full output from the programme I mentioned earlier. I just noticed 2012 data is out, I shall push that through later.

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