Re: EI mew ;abeling regulations June 20th 2025

R.Wieser <address@is.invalid> wrote:

Arno,
 

That list shows 17 male "marion"s in 164 years.  That comes down to
one in over 9.5 years.

 
Yes - for *known* men. Not every man called "Marion" or "Andrea" is
listed in Wikipedia.

 
Agreed.  But as you have not shown any correlation between known and unknown
"Marion"s and "Andrea"s you can't extrapolate the "hardly ever" to anything
more.
 
Heck, if I would apply the iceberg assumption (10% visible, 90% not) than it
still looks to be a rather small number.
 
Though again, having some other, more popular name to compare against would
be usefull.

Fortunately, someone's built an interactive browser:
https://engaging-data.com/baby-name-visualizer/

Marion for a boy peaked in the 1910s with a rate of 763/million.

Contrast with Andrew which peaked in the 1980s with 10x more
(7749/million).

However, note that the overall trend is for all names (in the US) to appear
less frequently as more and more non-traditional names are used.