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in reply to a message by Flute
I still have the HTML file from my query of the SSA database regarding the 2005 data, for building my own name database. This file is from October 21, 2006. At *that* day Ella was ranked 22 and Anna was 23. If you go to the SSA site *now* and query the 2005 data, the two names are reversed.
Unfortunately the data in the older file is without number of births, so I cannot check the revisement theory...
I checked the boy names: There you have a change even higher up in the data: Last October Ryan was given as 13, followed by David on 14. Now the order is reversed.
So, whatever is going on, the phenomenon is real and maybe quite frequent.
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
Unfortunately the data in the older file is without number of births, so I cannot check the revisement theory...
I checked the boy names: There you have a change even higher up in the data: Last October Ryan was given as 13, followed by David on 14. Now the order is reversed.
So, whatever is going on, the phenomenon is real and maybe quite frequent.
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
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I have the figures from May last year that were posted for 2005. Back then there were 17,735 Ryans and 17,712 Davids. As of tonight there are 17,912 Ryans and 17,957 Davids. So it certainly seems as if some more births have been added in since last May to the 2005 list. Now we really should look at the bottom of the list and see if any names that were around 990 have been replaced since last May with other names because of these additions! :)
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Yup, the bottom has changed too
Last May the last seven names on the boys list ro 2005, with the total numbers, were:
Daquan 169
Edison 169
Bridger 168
Fisher 168
Jaheim 168
Tye 168
Blaise 167
Tonight the last six on the 2005 list are:
Fisher 172
Jaheim 172
Adin 171
Blaise 171
Tariq 171
Edison 170
Joan 170
Bridger & Tye have disappeared from the list, and don't show up when you look for them in the "search a single name function" for 2005 any more, either. Eliseo (173) and Joan have replaced them.
Kudos to Flute for noticing this! It never dawned on me that SSA could be updating their yearly listings after the original postings.
Last May the last seven names on the boys list ro 2005, with the total numbers, were:
Daquan 169
Edison 169
Bridger 168
Fisher 168
Jaheim 168
Tye 168
Blaise 167
Tonight the last six on the 2005 list are:
Fisher 172
Jaheim 172
Adin 171
Blaise 171
Tariq 171
Edison 170
Joan 170
Bridger & Tye have disappeared from the list, and don't show up when you look for them in the "search a single name function" for 2005 any more, either. Eliseo (173) and Joan have replaced them.
Kudos to Flute for noticing this! It never dawned on me that SSA could be updating their yearly listings after the original postings.
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I checked all years back to 1990 and found small differences in the data for every year.
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Hmm, this is very interesting!
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I viewed a boy girl name thing on this site and three box's showed up so my first choise was Nicholas and Jessica still think there realy cool names next was david and rebecca then i wondered about my gramer school sweatheart if she new i chose her last with out me o boy so i changed David to George and ended up with davi and Cathrine now just before i started with this paregraph i was thinking and perhaps still am what an idiot i was chooses us last on the list Darn it 1:21 p.m.e.s.t.mass
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