US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by childev on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:12PM (#50341025)

Interesting data. Nightmare color scale for the colorblind.

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by poncho_romero on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:55PM (#50341761)

Yeah I can't read the charts at all.

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by xnx on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:37PM (#50341431)

Came here to say the same. Anyone doing data visualization should think long and hard before using something beside a line or bar chart. Almost everything else is worse in multiple ways.

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by gregates on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:03PM (#50346614)

If they used these chart types, though, it would be too obvious that the data doesn't tell the story they want it to!

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by a_e_k on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:17PM (#50345522)

Not colorblind, but I like to pick color schemes off of https://colorbrewer2.org/ for this reason.

Something like https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=diverging&scheme=PiYG&n=11 would probably have been suitable here (listed among the colorblind-safe options for diverging schemes).

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by jezzamon on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:44PM (#50345874)

Red and blue is so obvious for girls and boys, so I really wonder what made someone deviate from that??

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