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 license: CC Attribution 4.0 License · Data source: fivethirtyeight/data on GitHub · About: simonw/fivethirtyeight-datasette
| rowid | Unnamed: 0 | name | total | male_share | female_share | gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | 75 | Yael | 5232.374916 | 0.449224824049286 | 0.550775175950714 | 0.101550351901427 |