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Determining Age From Someone's Name

How old is someone named Anna? How about Andrew or Donald? What's the "oldest" name and "youngest" name? Using the Social Security Administration's baby name database and its actuarial tables, FiveThirtyEight.com calculated the median age and interquartile range for common male and female names. A great example of statistics in action!

Click here to check out How to Tell Someone's Age When All You Know Is Her Name at FiveThirtyEight.com


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