Not what parents are choosing now — what the American name map looks like today. Each rectangle is sized by estimated living bearers, colored by median age. The names of the young glow warm; the names of the old cool to blue.
This is a snapshot of the living American first-name landscape, not a popularity chart. Big rectangles are widespread names; small ones are rarer survivors.
Use it to compare durable staples like James and Mary with newer heavyweights like Liam and Olivia. If you want the trend line instead of the snapshot, see comeback names, classic names, and the decade pages in visualizations.
The map combines estimated living bearers, median age, and wave type so you can see whether a name is a long-lived staple, a recent spike, or a fading relic. It is a census-style view of what American first names look like right now.