How Cool Is Your Name?

I’m sad that Labor Day is over too, but the upside is that when you have a job, you can labor every day like it’s Labor Day!  Yeah, I never quite got how the whole labor/not labor dynamic was supposed to make sense there, but that’s really more stand-up territory.  Hopefully you made many crazy times during the weekend (do share in the comments) – I for my part finally got acquainted with Four Loko and the myriad of unexpected situations that can happen to you when you drink Four Loko.

Then, during the cooldown portion of the weekend, I found the Baby Name Wizard, which is extremely, extremely nifty.  It tracks the popularity of every name in the U.S. from 1880 onward, state by state, so you can see whether your name is hot or not (maybe next year, Reginald!).  Number one names for boys and girls in 2008?  Are…  

For boys, Jacob.

For girls, Emma. Emma was major in the 1880s and then completely went off the grid before making the biggest comeback of all names.  Way to go, Emma.

The Name Voyager, which graphs the overall popularity of a name since 1880, is here.  The Name Mapper, which shows your name’s flyness state by state, is here.

Via BuzzFeed.