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earnest_dad OP t1_isxtgkg wrote

Reply to comment by sexy_wash_bucket in [OC] Female names that are composed of two "standalone" names (e.g. "Rosemary", "Annmarie", "Adalynn", "Emmalee"...). Turns out "Jo-" is super versatile [repost with light updates after comments] by earnest_dad

Can you say a bit more about the concern here? The code I used does the following:

(1) identifies the "maximal proportion" as the greatest share (of all female names in that year) a name receives in any year. Note that these maximal proportions are quite small -- the greatest value represented here is "Joanne" with 0.00420; the smallest values in this chart are less than 10^-5.

(2) convert to "1 name per..." by finding 1/maximal proportion, Note that by this measure, "Joanne" is roughly 1 per 238 names; the very uncommon names (e.g. lilylynn" are roughly 1 per 400,000.

(3) use a log scale gradient to plot

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sexy_wash_bucket t1_isxtmmv wrote

You’re totally right. Misread it. My bad.

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earnest_dad OP t1_isy0rkv wrote

No worries! There are *so* many bugs that end up making their way in here -- good for me to do the double-check!

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