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
| rowid | Unnamed: 0 | name | total | male_share | female_share | gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 72 | Carrol | 5513.606968 | 0.45235639563636 | 0.54764360436364 | 0.0952872087272798 |