Names

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

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).


here are the results, should you be interested. These are the names in the top 1000 for amab and afab as that's all the USA publishes. Numbers are difference between column 2 + column 3, amab and afab.

Azariah -42 285 327
Oakley -43 610 653
Frankie -84 236 320
Landry -86 258 344
Charlie -124 1776 1900
Armani 129 567 438
Justice -142 479 621
Royal 154 569 415
Briar -154 243 397
Skyler -165 647 812
Remy 181 678 497
Emory -184 278 462
Jamie -186 302 488
Reign -192 215 407
Sutton -221 277 498
Jessie -236 214 450
Shiloh -240 274 514
Casey 250 540 290
Tatum -261 449 710
Milan 269 649 380
Rory 324 856 532
Lennox 324 762 438
Lennon -326 379 705
Dakota -362 984 1346
Sage -417 626 1043
Leighton -430 235 665
Ari 448 785 337
Kamryn -538 236 774
Amari 568 1313 745
Finley -575 1284 1859
Emerson -655 1310 1965
Ellis 719 1099 380
Remington 743 1497 754
River 782 1948 1166
Lyric -837 220 1057
Dallas 870 1389 519
Rylan 912 1253 341
Hayden 921 2272 1351
Spencer 934 1200 266
Harley -1120 395 1515
Kendall -1134 250 1384
Alexis -1241 803 2044
Marley -1245 218 1463
Payton -1348 287 1635
Rowan 1387 2827 1440
Reese -1390 358 1748
Blake 1418 2600 1182
Ariel -1457 599 2056
Eden -1496 586 2082
Morgan -1549 362 1911
Zion 1672 1956 284
London -1684 273 1957
Elliott 1846 2421 575
Elliot 1923 2416 493
Karter 1926 2273 347
Taylor -2121 571 2692
Peyton -2252 992 3244
Emery -2381 301 2682
Quinn -2683 892 3575
Sawyer 2761 4146 1385
Kai 2785 3121 336
Reagan -2787 212 2999
Nova -2796 230 3026
Parker 2859 4346 1487
Micah 3396 3660 264
Jordan 4232 5114 882
Angel 4323 5240 917
Skylar -4428 278 4706
Riley -4889 1454 6343
Cameron 5351 5925 574
Avery -6007 2179 8186
Hunter 6322 6701 379
Ryan 6882 7652 770
Dylan 8378 9268 890
Carter 9155 9753 598
Jayden 9214 9495 281
Harper -10167 284 10451
Logan 12871 13974 1103

England and Wales:

AVERY 0 65 65
BOBBIE 3 46 43
RYLEE -3 40 43
REMI -17 79 96
CHARLEY -20 34 54
KAYA -34 32 66
QUINN 37 219 182
RIVER 41 205 164
ADDISON -49 46 95
BROOKLYN 50 141 91
ASHLEY 57 106 49
MILAN 100 149 49
HARLOW -135 35 170
BEAU 137 315 178
MORGAN 144 212 68
CASEY 144 202 58
AUBREY -145 39 184
TAYLOR 162 260 98
PHOENIX 175 243 68
ROBIN 177 251 74
MARLEY 188 315 127
GEORGIE -212 69 281
EDEN -286 190 476
BAILEY 297 351 54
ROWAN 536 626 90
FRANKIE 646 1055 409
BLAKE 712 799 87
RONNIE 931 978 47
HARLEY 967 1246 279
RILEY 1236 1427 191
HARPER -1557 51 1608
CHARLIE 3660 3724 64

Comments

[cjwatson]

Yay :-)

Hmm, looking at the output, I wonder if it would be an improvement to rank names by ratio of min(AMAB, AFAB) / max(AMAB, AFAB) closest to 1? (With something to avoid division by zero, of course.)

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Yes, I was thinking that might be a more understandable output, and was going to ask you to show me how to do that later.

[jack]

Oh, that's really interesting! What did you write it in? Where did you get the data?

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Python. The data comes from ONS in England & Wales (they also release separate data for Scotland and Northern Ireland) and SSA in USA.

[sfred]

That's really interesting - thank you. The England/Wales list has several duplicates..?

Sometimes it seems that almost all the under-11s I know are called Rowan. (They're not, but it is a very popular name in my circles.)

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Copy and paste accident, I'll fix when I get to a computer thanks