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Is there a graph about the amount of people named after the Olympian gods in the real world? (fedia.io)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Region or country doesn't matter. Asking here as I couldn't find an equivalent to Reddit's r/namenerds community here.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don’t know, but there are some common names that are actually obscure forms of classic theonyms, and the people using them may not even be aware of the connection—for instance, “Dennis” is a form of “Dionysus”. Would you count that or not?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

This is a giant rabbit hole, you've been warned:

behindthename.com

Each name has a popularity chart, so for this example, you can see Zeus started trending in Spain in 2005-2010:

https://www.behindthename.com/name/zeus/top/spain-decade

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I found https://apps.cdrc.ac.uk/worldnames/ looking up my name but the site is taking a while.