FAKE RONJAN!!Off Topic Tuesday: Androgynous Baby Names
With the newest member of my family hitting the six-month mark over the weekend, I started reminiscing. As part of that, I thought about the discussions that led to us eventually choosing his name, and once I started down that rabbit hole I went to the U.S. baby name rankings to see if there was anything interesting there. There has been a lot of fun analysis, with this being my favorite article on the subject.
I decided to look at which names in 2013 were the most androgynous by looking at all of the names in top 1,000 for both baby boys and girls, selecting the ones that appear in the top 1,000 for both genders, and then sorting them based on how close they are to a 50-50 distribution.
Here are the top 20 androgynous baby names of 2013:
Thoughts? Some of these names were shockingly close to 50-50 (Charlie? Dakota? Sidney?) based on my perceptions.
-rj