U.S. Baby Girl Names by Year Quiz

I keep doing it over and over as well - my best is 83

Too true

Isabella #1? ugh... I guess as long as "Renesme" doesn't catch on.

Actually it's two names.

Bit rude to put down names like Hayley (MY name btw) and Madison just because you might not Iike them.

Old? Maybe. Dead, more likely.

I have two friends named Mary and Anna, and a teacher named Mrs. Rose

Haha yes.

I was surprised by that too, even retyped it a few times to be sure I hadn't spelled it wrong.

Maybe they did not group together all the many different variants.

Same!

No Catherine/Kate etc. in the top twenty in any of the last ten decades? Unbelievable!

used all my girlfriends names like a boss

BURN!!! :)

How could anyone ever go through 9 months of agony, and call their child Dolores?

Sorrow. Which is kind of right on point with cedric's question.

In decades past there was no internet to check the meaning of names - most people named their children something which was either a family name, a biblical name, something from pop culture of the day, or a name they heard and thought it was pretty or interesting. My husband had an uncle named Drexel (born in the 1920s) because his mother read an ad in the newspaper for a company by that name and liked the sound of it. Her cousin liked the name when she heard it and also named her son the same thing.

so true

My name is on there 4 times, my daughter's 10, and my sister's 2.

+1

This was a really hard quiz for me. I thought I was doing pretty well, I got 33. To find out the average is 44. I guess I don't have a bank of names in my gag memory. At least I got Florence, Joyce and Irene. But that's only cause I was cycling through names of hurricanes. I am curious to know how others did this quiz. Did you know the info already? Did you just rattle off the names of every girl you ever met? And how is Catherine/Katherine/Katie/Kate not on here at all? I guess multiple spellings split the vote.

Ella is, which is a form of Ellie.

Seriously, Gladys.

Try my quiz for 5-letter names by decade: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/43073/most-popular-five-letter-baby-girl-names-by-decade

If you're going to accept things like "Barb" for "Barbara", please could you accept "Sam" and "Jenny" for Samantha and Jennifer?

The time-pressure mind-blank is a real phenomenon. I missed my own middle name and sirname (which happens to be a first name).

surprised there wasn't Leslie I know a ton

Should be max time.

Dont you mean Girl Baby names by DECADE??

39% get my name. What has come to this world?!?!

Different times. I'm sure in the future we'll look back and Gladys will still be outdated but it'll be one of the rather normal names. I mean names nowadays tend to get a little crazy. I'd rather be named Gladys than North, Apple or Peaches Honeyblossom.

Amy should count for Amelia as well. That's my name, and I've always got Amy.

My answer boxes only showed through 1970, and I didn't realize I should have scrolled down to get the decades back to the 1920s. I would have been trying names from my mother's and grandmother's generation had I known. Maybe add the decades covered in the instructions, or am I the only one who is this slow?

Could you accept Hayley for Hailey please? Thank you!