Baby Names
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“The first gift given when we are born into this world is our name”
Brandon Le (2024)
About
Baby Names is a group project completed for an introductory digital humanities course taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, during the Spring quarter of 2024 under the direction of Dr. Ashley Sanders Garcia.
Our team was tasked with using methodologies to analyze a publicly accessible database of their choosing critically. This project challenged us students to formulate a critical argument about this public dataset and narratively present it with a key argument.
This project uncovers the trends and underlying origins of baby names that can be scraped from the United States Social Security Administration database of baby names from 1890 to 2022.
Tingyu Gong
Project Manager
I am a second-year computer science major with immense passion for Tennis! My name comes from the gemstone Jade.
Brandon Le
Web Designer
I am a second-year computer science major, an avid runner, and a React developer! There were only 11 babies named Brandon in 1910.
Reeshad Mohammad
Role
I am a second-year data-theory major, and my name is a fusion of my parents and my sister’s name!
Momoka Keadon
Role
I am a second-year computer science major with immense passion for Tennis! My name comes from the gemstone Jade.
Christy Yuen
Role
I am a third-year cognitive science and design media arts major! My name is biblical, but my Chinese name means intelligence and sunrise.