The Most Poisoned Names

One general place I go to find interesting graphs is statsblogs.com.  I recently found an interesting graph that focus on the most poisoned names.   A person was interested in the names that Americans give their children.  A poisoned name is one that shows a big dropoff from one year to the next.

Here is the graph.  On the horizontal axis, we see the year, and the vertical axis represents the percentage of children with a particular name.  A poisoned name is one that exhibits a sharp decline — the largest declines I see are Katina in the 1970’s and Ashanti in the early 2000’s.

This is a nice graph since it clearly shows the poisoned names.  I like the use of different colors and the labels are helpful and don’t make the graph too cluttered.

 

 

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