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This directory contains the code and data behind the story The Most Common Unisex Names In America: Is Yours One Of Them?

The script unisex_names.R generates the data in unisex_names_table.csv, which contains the over 900 names given to each sex at least one-third of the time and with a minimum of 100 people. It has the following variables:

Header Definition
name First names from the Social Security Administration
total Total number of living Americans with the name
male_share Percentage of people with the name who are male
female_share Percentage of people with the name who are female
gap Gap between male_share and female_share

Data source: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/unisex-names/unisex_names_table.csv

This data as json, copyable

rowid Unnamed: 0 name total male_share female_share gap
64 64 Rian 6139.851241 0.593677306326126 0.406322693673874 0.187354612652251
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