For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura Wattenberg. But instead of zeroing in on trends for full names, they looked at the letters that names end with.
Then a funny thing happened: Names started giving way to sounds. Jason begot Mason, Jackson, Grayson, Carson and a whole family of other “-son” names that together make up a major 21st-century trend for baby boys.
Always up for baby name data.
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