30 / THE MORTALITY

The Survival Curve

How long does a name live? For the class of 1880, most names were still used 100 years later. For the class of 2000, half were gone in 20 years. Kaplan-Meier curves for American names.

LONGEST-LIVED COHORT
SHORTEST HALF-LIFE
MOST RECENT DATA YEAR
SEX
Y SCALE
COHORTS
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Half-Life by Cohort