The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

Very cool! Use this interactive page to see at a glance the fortunes of the top 1000 names in America over the last century. Remember two or three classmates that shared a name? Punch it up and see if there was a big spike in that name's popularity about the time you were born.

Interesting Discovery: One out of every thousand girls born in the decade from 1900-1909 was named Sadie. By the 1940s, though, the name had dwindled down to nearly nothing, and in the 1970s, virtually no one in this country was given that name. Strangely, each decade since has shown remarkable growth in "Sadie's" popularity, so that in 2003 it was the 195th most popular name for girls... albeit still only half as popular as it was a century ago.