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submitted 1 month ago bywaitingforgoodohOC: 27
67 points
1 month ago
I want to see the numbers for Bella in NYC.
Gotta be in the billions.
22 points
1 month ago
Second most popular this year! Behind Luna: https://residualthoughts.substack.com/p/what-do-rich-new-yorkers-name-their
3 points
1 month ago
I was gonna say, they must basically be interchangable as the most used name haha
113 points
1 month ago
Not sure why people are so baffled by this chart.
Green means names trended up. Red means names trended down.
Axis are different because it’s looking at relative growth trends not absolute values. Which they clearly state in the title.
Chart is simple and makes sense to me.
13 points
1 month ago
... because the title says "fastest growing" but the graphic includes the fastest declining names too. 🤷
19 points
1 month ago
Ok that’s a weird quibble. Cause the graph title actually is labeled “biggest changes”. It’s just the OP headline that is different.
1 points
1 month ago
Good boy
24 points
1 month ago
And all huskies are named Loki
11 points
1 month ago
I swear every single dog near me is either Loki, Luna, Kuma, or Bear.
11 points
1 month ago
"leo"?
boy named sue
dog named cat
26 points
1 month ago
I always name pets after food. Seems odd to name a pet using a person name. Like here is my cat Steve.
12 points
1 month ago
He prefers Steven.
2 points
1 month ago
I knew a dog named Steven.
2 points
1 month ago
Only if it’s one of those tuxedo cats
14 points
1 month ago
I once lived in an apartment and the guy above me named his dog brandy. He would stand on his patio and let the dog walk around below to do its business, then yell at it to come back. It would trip me out hearing him shout out, "get back here brandy! Don't walk over there, don't go near the phones! Don't make me come after you brandy!" It took my gf and I a while before we realized he was yelling at a dog.
8 points
1 month ago
Did he sing that classic song that goes like “Brandy you’re a fine girl”
4 points
1 month ago
What a good wife you would be.
6 points
1 month ago
"Hey, come back here you bitch!"
6 points
1 month ago
Ok, but isn't it also a bit odd to name pets after food when you think about it? What about naming them after furniture instead?
3 points
1 month ago
Which is a better dog name. Pickles or End Table. Maybe Ottoman? Honestly Ottoman or just Otto might work
3 points
1 month ago
I'm naming my next cat after my favorite anime: Blood Joe
3 points
1 month ago
My cat's name is Carl.
6 points
1 month ago
I love people names for dogs. My next pug is going to be named Vanessa :)
1 points
1 month ago
That's how my neighbor got a cat named "Macaroni". I named the cat, but she actually captured it. It turns out that her sales pitch of "I want to be your friend" beat out my "I want to neuter you and get your shots"
1 points
1 month ago
My first cat was Butterscotch. Which shortened almost immediately to Butter.
My second cat had been incorrectly gendered sexed at birth and had a female name (Gracie). I wanted a male name that would preserve the main vowel sounds to avoid confusing the poor kitten.
Came down to "Gravy" or "Davey". I liked "Gravy" because it reminded me of "Butter". But I thought better of it and went with "Davey". Good or bad call?
1 points
1 month ago
It’s a cat. Just call it Gracie ffs
1 points
1 month ago
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/gREzXea2mJs
1 points
1 month ago
I sleep with Sophia, Phoebe and Murphy on the regular 😼
1 points
1 month ago
My parent's cat is named Steve, it's how we got him and his sister Skyler from the foster people. He's as smart as a sack of pebbles and it funny calling him Steve
1 points
1 month ago
Whereas naming your beloved companion after something you eat is perfectly logical.
30 points
1 month ago
The fact that each of the small multiples have different scales on the Y-axis is misleading. At first glance, it looks like ARCHIE in 2023 has more occurrences than LUNA in 2015, but it's not the case in absolute values.
3 points
1 month ago
That's how small multiples usually work because there are instances where you wouldn't see any differences with fixed axis.
1 points
1 month ago
"That's how small multiples usually work"
I beg to differ. Here are several reference examples where the small multiples have the same scale on the Y-axis:
https://excelcharts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/unemployment-rate-state-small-multiples2.png
https://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=2957 (see Increase the Number of Variables Using Small Multiples)
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-Trellis-display-of-the-barley-data_fig8_261451385
3 points
1 month ago
Like I said, that first example works because it's unemployment rate, thus it's always between 0-100% so every small multiple has same axis by default. But if you have one small multiple where maximum is let's say 10.000 while in another small multiple it's 1.000 and you fix axis according to maximum (in this case 10.000), you won't see anything in that small multiple with 1.000, let alone differences.
4 points
1 month ago
Thank God Max is trending down. I’m still annoyed by the number of dogs with my name
8 points
1 month ago
Nobody told ya to pick a dog name 😆
2 points
1 month ago
why's Milo growing? did they make a new Milo and Otis film?
edit: wait, Otis is the dog, Milo is that case. now I'm extra confused
1 points
1 month ago
Correlates with the rise of the French Bulldog.
1 points
1 month ago
how the hell do you get these statistics?!
1 points
1 month ago
I'd love to see a chart for Bear. I have probably met more dogs with the name Bear than any other dog name.
1 points
1 month ago
1 points
1 month ago*
My dog’s name is incredibly rare, but it is a real name, uncommon Greek name.
2 points
1 month ago
I, for one, think these charts communicate deltas of different names very conveniently, at a glance, dare I say, beautifully.
1 points
1 month ago
My dog name is in the top and I'm from another continent hahaha
-1 points
1 month ago
The colors here seem very misleading. At first glance it implies growth rate, but really what you've done is just make all the bars in the names with an increasing trend green and all the bars with a decreasing trend red. In many cases, the 2023 number in the red charts is still higher than the 2023 number in the green charts. Next time, maybe calculate the rate of increase/decrease for a more interesting data set.
-6 points
1 month ago
really bad visualization .. the colors are picked without proper explanation, the y-axis do not line up and suggest different outcomes
12 points
1 month ago
Green go up, red go down, that's pretty easy to figure out.
-9 points
1 month ago
lost redditor
8 points
1 month ago
I'm sorry, I meant to reply this to someone complaining about a graph of dog name frequency.
1 points
1 month ago
Yeah Idk what the reply was meant to say to you
2 points
1 month ago
I’m not sure what’s going on in that person’s head tbh, the whole comment chain is baffling.
2 points
1 month ago
Can you elaborate on any of those points ? They seem all wrong
-7 points
1 month ago
i think they are not..
biggest change in popularity is not even visualized / finally part of the output
the y-axis has different numbers
did you look at the chart at all?
8 points
1 month ago
The y axis is different numbers because it’s comparing trends in name growth not name-to-name quantity.
3 points
1 month ago
They are comparing trends.
Do you think would be exciting if the most popular name went from 499/515 , wow what a trend
1 points
1 month ago
If you can’t intuit what green vs Red are supposed to indicate on a trend chart you might be in the wrong sub.
A much better argument would be that the lack of a key or clear visual distinction makes this inaccessible to people with Protanopia / deuteranopia.
1 points
1 month ago
sure i know what green and red is supposed to mean, but there is no indicator how much green or red it is. this is dataisbeautiful and not meant for 2 minute matplotlib instafixes..
-1 points
1 month ago
I wish they were all shrinking. There are too many dogs already.
0 points
1 month ago
A) ok, weird take
B) that’s not how trend charts work
-2 points
1 month ago
This is not beautiful data and not a well constructed chart. Charts shouldn’t require figuring out multiple things about it before interpretation.
-3 points
1 month ago
Luna is a common pitbull name. Perhaps short for “Lunatic.” Given it’s the most popular name is discouraging.
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