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byJoanic OP t1_ishj6nm wrote

Source of the data: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Gender+by+Name

Edit: Tool: Matplotlib and python

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-US: Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications - National Data, 1880 to 2019

-UK: Baby names in England and Wales Statistical bulletins, 2011 to 2018

-Canada: British Columbia 100 Years of Popular Baby names, 1918 to 2018

-Australia: Popular Baby Names, Attorney-General's Department, 1944 to 2019

I only considered those that satisfy that: |male_count - female_count| / (male_count + female_count) <= 0.2

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A longer list (sorted by total count):

Riley, Casey, Jackie, Jaime, Kerry, Frankie, Quinn, Pat, Emerson, Robbie, Emery, Justice, Blair, Amari, Carey, Elisha, Kris, Finley, Stevie, Shea, Alva, Mckinley, Ivory, Armani, Jaylin, Lavern, Devyn, Leighton, Arden, Santana

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English is not my first language and I am really new to data science, sry if there are mistakes.

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MidnightPale3220 t1_isifoqi wrote

Tbh as a European I wasn't aware of most of these names being unisex.

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fghtffyrrss t1_isiuvzk wrote

You’re missing half the countries that make up the UK (Scotland, Northern Ireland)

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alexllew t1_isj9vy5 wrote

Scotland and N Ireland probably wouldn't affect the numbers very much though tbf

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swift_spades t1_isjm6kk wrote

They are using 140 years of US names v less than 10 from the UK so none of the UK numbers really make a difference.

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EatShitLeftWing t1_islx7mh wrote

That plus for Canada he's using only one province's data (out of like 10 provinces)

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pheellprice t1_isijy7d wrote

It would be interesting to split the chart also by country, or make county specific charts

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OrangeJuiceAlibi t1_isj5k7e wrote

Or just make individual charts for Canada, England and Wales, and Australia, as this list is just the US.

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OrangeJuiceAlibi t1_isj5vry wrote

>-UK: Baby names in England and Wales Statistical bulletins, 2011 to 2018

-Canada: British Columbia 100 Years of Popular Baby names, 1918 to 2018

So not Canada, just BC, and not the UK, just England and Wales, which aren't the same thing. I mean, they'll show the same data, as England in the UK, is the US in your chart, but still it feels disingenuous to call it the UK when it isn't.

Also look at those years, 139 years for the US, 100 years for British Columbia, 75 for Australia, and 7 for England and Wales. I find it difficult to believe this doesn't somewhat skew this data.

Really this chart is just "gender neutral names in the US over a century and a half".

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Tha0bserver t1_isjck22 wrote

FYI I would remove Canada if you’re only using date from BC which is like 15% of canadas population.

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CowPropeller t1_isjg8ps wrote

Very interesting data however I'd have used a horizontal barplot instead of vertical, to allow for the only information we need to be bigger and more readable : the names (+social media pictures are rather portrait than landscape due to ghe fact that they're often browsed on mobile phones). Hope that helped!

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