{"id":87,"date":"2005-09-20T22:18:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T12:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-09-20T22:42:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T12:42:13","slug":"julian-is-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/09\/20\/julian-is-the-new-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian is the New Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- UnMarkedDown_2_01132526432--><\/p>\n<p>Oh No!  I&#8217;ve just discovered my name is becoming fashionable.<\/p>\n<p>In 1942, the year that the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffbooks.co.uk\/n7\/n35837.htm\">Famous Five<\/a> book was released, Julian was the 250<sup>th<\/sup> most popular boys&#8217; name in the USA, accounting for 0.0375% of male births. (That should be compared to the 5.49% of boys dubbed &#8220;James&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>By 1962, it had fallen out of fashion, dropping to the 365<sup>th<\/sup> most popular boys&#8217; name &#8211; it dropped to the 0.0227% of births.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, it has slowly been growing in popularity. Last year, it climbed to position #74, claiming a staggering 0.268% of births. <\/p>\n<p>While I am sure some of this can be attributed to the many grateful parents in the USA naming their children after me, I find it a bit threatening &#8211; I like that my first name is common enough to be spelled correctly, but rare enough that it is generally distinctive. Where I have worked or studied with other Julians, I have found the ongoing confusion rather tiresome. I feel sympathy for the over-popularly named. (Yes, I mean you Chris, Liz, Andy, Nic, Dave, Mel and James.)<\/p>\n<p>Reference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/OACT\/babynames\/\">US Social Security Data<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh No!  I&#8217;ve just discovered my name is becoming fashionable. I feel sympathy for the over-popularly named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}