Is this name due for a comeback?
Every name has a shape. Some peaked in 1920 and are surging now (Eleanor, Margot, Theodore). Some peaked in 1985 and are still dropping. Currently a demo with a handful of names — full Social Security Administration dataset (1880 to present) is on the roadmap.
"shining light" — Greek/Old French
Based on historical patterns of names with similar trajectories. Not a guarantee — names are weird.
Their name in italic Fraunces, peak year in sage, and the full SSA popularity curve from 1880 to today — framed for the nursery.
Currently a demo dataset of popular names. The full Social Security Administration dataset (every U.S. name given to ≥5 babies per year, 1880 to present) is on the roadmap — until then, expect "name not found" for most queries.
The five-year forecast is pattern-matching against historical trajectories — it's right more often than chance but names follow trends nobody can fully predict (a single celebrity baby can flip the curve).
We use the official Social Security Administration name dataset — every U.S. baby given to at least 5 babies per year per sex, going back to 1880 and refreshed each May.
Peak year is the calendar year a name was given to the most babies in absolute count. For unisex names like Jordan or Taylor, pass a sex (girl/boy) to get a sex-specific peak — without it, male+female records merge and the peak gets dominated by whichever sex has higher totals.
- Raw counts aren't normalized by total births that year, so older popular names (Mary, John) skew toward the baby-boom era.
- SSA only counts births in the US; other countries have different popularity patterns.
- Names below 5 births/year/sex aren't in the dataset.
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