Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

UPDATE (12/8/23): YOOOOOOOOO if you got to this post, I suggest that you check out this update for a up-to-date link to this tool.

Here is the Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager, which provides illustrations of trends in baby names, using data from the 1880s to the present.

It is a good tool for demonstrating why graphs can be more engaging than tables when presenting data. When I use this in class, I compare the NameVoyager data display to more traditionally presented data from the the Social Security Agency. Additionally, I teach in a computer lab, so my students were able to search for their own names, which makes the example more self relevant.

Yup. I am one of many, many Jessicas that are around my age.