Throwback Thursday: Generational Names

Recently, I've stunned friends and colleagues with my ability to guess middle names within one or two guesses - what they don't know is that I survive on statistics! So, to impress your friends and family, memorize these names and dates and start guessing!

I'm also very excited for this post, because it took learning to some early stage programming in order to create a program to calculate name popularity for a date range - while the SSA provides numbers by decade, I wanted a more specific calculation. Shoutout to my coworker Henry for taking the time to painstakingly teach me basic database programming!

The Greatest Generation, 1901-1924    

Mary

Helen

Dorothy

Margaret

Ruth

Mildred

Anna

Elizabeth

Frances

Virginia

John

William

James

Robert

Charles

George

Joseph

Edward

Frank

Thomas

The Silent Generation, 1925-1945

Mary

Barbara

Betty

Patricia

Dorothy

Shirley

Margaret

Helen

Carol

Nancy

Robert

James

John

William

Richard

Charles

Donald

Thomas

George

Joseph

The Baby Boomers, 1946-1964

Mary

Linda

Patricia

Susan

Barbara

Karen

Deborah

Nancy

Donna

Sandra

James

Robert

John

Michael

David

William

Richard

Thomas

Mark

Charles

The Baby Busters, 1965-1980

Jennifer

Lisa

Michelle

Kimberly

Melissa

Amy

Angela

Mary

Heather

Elizabeth

Michael

David

James

John

Robert

Christopher

Jason

William

Brian

Joseph

The MTV Generation, 1975-1985

Jennifer

Jessica

Amanda

Melissa

Sarah

Amy

Heather

Nicole

Stephanie

Michelle

Michael

Christopher

Jason

David

Matthew

James

John

Robert

Joshua

Daniel

The Millennials, 1985-1995

Jessica

Ashley

Amanda

Sarah

Brittany

Jennifer

Samantha

Stephanie

Elizabeth

Emily

Michael

Christopher

Matthew

Joshua

Daniel

David

Andrew

James

Joseph

John

Generation Z, 1996-2010

Emily

Madison

Hannah

Emma

Samantha

Ashley

Olivia

Alexis

Sarah

Abigail

Jacob
Michael
Matthew
Joshua
Christopher
Andrew
Daniel
Joseph
Nicholas
William