Popular names follow a familiar cycle: They become increasingly common as new parents jump on the bandwagon, only to peak and decline as everyone on the playground starts answering to the same name. Some old standards lie dormant for half a century before gradually returning.
Chris Franck, a professor in statistics at Virginia Tech, has developed the Baby Name Predictor, a tool that predicts how a name will rise or fall in the next 25 years by examining the performance of earlier names that followed similar patterns of popularity.
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