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Analyses of Baby Name Popularity Distribution in U.S. for the Last 131 Years
We examine the complete dataset of baby name popularity collected by U.S.
Social Security Administration for the last 131 years (1880-2010). The ranked
baby name popularity can be fitted empirically by a piecewise function
consisting of Beta function for the high-ranking names and power-law function
for low-ranking names, but not power-law (Zipf's law) or Beta function by
itself.Comment: 6 figure