Names

About 5 years ago, I wrote a programme to work out which names were given to most similar numbers of amab and afab babies, as a shorthand for ungendered names. Recentltrsy, I was inspired to dust it off and put the most recent data through it, so I did both England & Wales and USA.

The first thing I noticed was that the numbers are a lot closer in England & Wales,but I think that’s an effect of all the US numbers being bigger. Apart from top name Avery, which is completely neutral in England & Wales (4 times as many afab as amab in USA), the proportions are similar with Bobbie & Rylee in E&W being similar proportions to Azariah & Oakley in
the USA, for example. The second I noticed was that where names appear in both lists, they are either in wildly different places (eg Frankie, one of the most neutral names in th e USA, has over twice as many amab as afab babies in England & Wales) or lean different ways (eg Morgan was given to roughly 5 times as many afab than amab babies in the USA, and roughly 3 times as many amab as afab in England & Wales).


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