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NAMES ACROSS GENERATIONS

Guess the birth decade

Names of people born in each decade, from historical records of adults; not baby-name rankings.

Which birth decade has the highest share?

Choose from the five complete decades, 1950s–1990s. The answer uses the name’s share of each cohort, rather than its raw total. Each question has a published count in all five decades.

Download all published birth-decade counts and cohort shares as CSV. Missing cells are omitted.

Source and method

Source: Naampy v3, released 10 June 2025, CC0. The records come from historical Indian electoral rolls and chiefly describe adults. Birth years are filtered to 1910–2001; the partial 2000s cohort is excluded from comparisons. Age fields may contain errors, and coverage differs by place and cohort. These are records, not counts of unique people or a representative national survey.

Rankings and quiz answers use only the Latin-script table and indexable profiles with editorial meanings. Gender groups come from the name’s editorial gender, and describe names rather than the identity of any bearer. Each name can group the spellings listed on its profile. Native-script tables are separate views and are never added to these totals.

A share is a name’s published decade count divided by all records in that decade, multiplied by 100,000. Only counts of at least 100 are used. Missing and grouped withheld cells are excluded from charts and comparisons; an omission does not mean zero. Shares and ratios are rates, not record counts. Full methodology.