An interactive U.S. map by Brian Lee Yung Rowe traces the geographic popularity of 29,000 names over the past century. That’s an awful lot of data to track!
I entered my own given names and watched as they faded into obscurity over time since 1949. Keep your eye on the year; depending on the available information, the years may skip ahead quickly. I put my grandchild’s name in and had apparently hit one that didn’t rank among the 29,000. Maybe it was because I spelled it in the traditional way. So I reentered it with the weird 21st-century spelling and got results starting at 2003. Sigh. Read more about the map at io9.
"I have discovered that there are two basic types of people in the world: (1) people named Daniel Kim; and (2) people who know someone named Daniel Kim. "