Top50BabyNames {fdadensity}

Baby name popularity densities for 50 male and 50 female names in the USA

Description

Baby name popularity densities, obtained by smoothing year-to-year popularity indices from 1950 to 2016, after normalization to have integral equal to 1. The top 50 names, in absolute popularity, are included for each gender.

Format

A list with two variables

x

grid of years between 1950 and 2016, of length 67.

dens

list of length two, corresponding to male (dens$male) and female(dens$female) names. Each is a 67-by-50 matrix of density estimates, where each column corresponds to a unique baby name given by the corresponding column name.

References

Data from the R package babynames, originally from the US Social Security Administration