[name_m]Hi[/name_m] all!
I was a little curious about the origins of my top names, so I decided to make a pie chart so I could see the breakdown!!
Girls:
If you had asked me to guess, I definitely would have said my top girl names were mostly Latin, so it looks like I was almost correct!! Greek was the most, with Latin a close second, and not far behind that is the other category (which included primarily Scandinavian names, but also had a few random ones like Turkish and Russian!!). I also noticed that, while I felt I had enough [name_u]French[/name_u] origin names to make a category here, I ended up not having any [name_u]French[/name_u] origin names on my boys list.
Boys:
[name_f]My[/name_f] boys graph was particularly surprising, because if you had asked me before, I would’ve said I definitely have the most Greek names. According to this graph, [name_f]English[/name_f] origin names blow all my other boy names out of the water by far, followed, by Latin, and then a tie between Greek and Hebrew. I was actually surprised at how many Hebrew origin names I had, and noted that [name_u]Irish[/name_u] / Gaelic / Welsh / Scottish had a much larger presence on my boys list over my girls
Overall:
Between my two sets, it was a total even tie between Greek names, Latin names, and [name_f]English[/name_f] names!! The Greek and Latin were not surprising to me, but the [name_f]English[/name_f] was. I’m pretty sure the large [name_f]English[/name_f] presence may be due to my affinity for word names (that happen to be in English) that may be skewing the data, but unsure about that. Overall, this was a very fun activity which didn’t take too long, and I’d love to see everyone else’s results if they have time!!
