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HelpRe: WDYT about the nameberry tops tens?
in reply to a message by Caroline
Nameberry's "Top Names" are actually compiled from their search data and I don't think it's really that indicative of anything. Here's BtN's version of the same thing (I don't know what percent Nameberry uses, but BtN's is only 1% of the search data.) http://www.behindthename.com/stat/view.php?type=srch
And if you scroll to the bottom, you can get the top 300 for each gender.
I think it's pretty clear BtN is a site that's comfortable for all kinds of people to use and the search data reflects it pretty well–it looks like most of the searches here are people looking up their own names or names of family/friends.
I actually just looked at the comments on Nameberry and everyone's like "um, I just clicked on Khaleesi because it looked weird and i wanted to know more" (Khaleesi ranked at #18 over there).
I feel it's EXTREMELY misleading that the they write the blog that way. Those aren't the "top names of the year", those are the ones getting searched the most on their one little website. Articles like this: http://time.com/2967217/most-popular-baby-names-2014/ shouldn't be the result.
...I was going to compare a little to the BtN's favorites list (the one I do), but I am out of time and have to go to work. We don't like Imogen nearly that much. The boy's names are pretty different compared to us as well.
"than you will go to jail for kidnap."
top: Miriam & Evander
bottom: Infinity & Kyrian
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/59411
And if you scroll to the bottom, you can get the top 300 for each gender.
I think it's pretty clear BtN is a site that's comfortable for all kinds of people to use and the search data reflects it pretty well–it looks like most of the searches here are people looking up their own names or names of family/friends.
I actually just looked at the comments on Nameberry and everyone's like "um, I just clicked on Khaleesi because it looked weird and i wanted to know more" (Khaleesi ranked at #18 over there).
I feel it's EXTREMELY misleading that the they write the blog that way. Those aren't the "top names of the year", those are the ones getting searched the most on their one little website. Articles like this: http://time.com/2967217/most-popular-baby-names-2014/ shouldn't be the result.
...I was going to compare a little to the BtN's favorites list (the one I do), but I am out of time and have to go to work. We don't like Imogen nearly that much. The boy's names are pretty different compared to us as well.
top: Miriam & Evander
bottom: Infinity & Kyrian
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/59411
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