Little Women apparently: http://nameberry.com/babyname/Amy
The other names show similar shapes:
Meg: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Jo: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Beth: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
The second bump for Meg could be due to Meg Ryan?
Amy and Sarah were two of the most popular girl's names when I was growing up.
My wife dug in her heels pretty early in the pregnancy for a name that I later learned was a character on a TV show. Judging by the site, she's not the only one. The peak is still under a hundred, so not as embarrassing as, say, characters from 90210.
Bob Green years ago wrote about going to the "Linda Hop", a convention of boomer women all named Linda. The article traced the name back to a song popular in the early 1950s. As far as male v. female, it seems more common to name sons after fathers than daughters after mothers.
Re:Name Age Calculator
by kidsthesedays on Friday May 15, 2015 @08:01AM
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Jessica - http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Names (just like everything else) have fads. Fads come and go.
I just figured out that it shows a random one when you don't enter a query, that's cool.
Other spikes: Linda, Jordan, Mason, Deborah, Beth, Paige, Laurie, Chloe, Megan, Stella, Stacey, Kim
It seems like female names are much more likely to have sharp spikes in popularity verses male first names.