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Would be much more interesting to see absolute numbers compared instead.

My conjecture is that Mason is the biggest YoY decrease (11 -> 18), followed by Abigail and Michael (both 12 -> 17).

The counts elsewhere on the website show:

- Mason: 10,075 babies -> 9,040 babies (down 1,035)

- Abigail: 7,874 babies -> 6,938 babies (down 936)

- Michael: 9,783 babies -> 9,041 babies (down 742)

I have trouble with this idea that “Michael” is only #17, as a Michael born in 1983.

Born in 1979, Mike's required last names/initials in all my classes

I remember having some advanced math class where there were maybe 15 of us, of whom three were Mike and three were girls.

(IIRC, there are more CEOs of large companies named John than women.)

Some years ago, there was a post about a conference that had more speakers named Bryan than it had woman speakers.