Who has the oldest name in your group?
Add the first names of your family, team or friends. We'll rank everyone by their name age, the average age of everyone in the US with that name, and give your group an average. The names you type stay in your browser: the page downloads our name list and looks them up there.
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What's a name age?
It's how old the typical person with a first name is, worked out from Social Security's records of every baby name since 1880 and how many people born in each year are still alive. It says nothing about the person you typed in, only about the name. A 25-year-old Linda has an old name; a 60-year-old Madison has a young one.
That's what makes it fun in a group: the youngest person at the table often has the oldest-sounding name. Copy the link to share your ranking; the names travel in the part of the link after the #, which browsers don't send to websites.
Try a few: a sample office, or play Guess the Age.