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Bitter_Arachnid_25 t1_izd8lz9 wrote

I think it is this: for all the babies born in 2021 having a given name, the location on each axis is the percentage of those babies who are female in either the US or England/Wales.

So for example, for babies with the name Angel: in England/Wales, about 82% are female and in the US, only about 13% are female. In both locations, more than 80% of babies with the name Wren are female and fewer than 20% of babies named Dillon are female.

Some conclusions you could make: In England/Wales, Hadley is more likely to be considered a boy's name (just over 20% female) but in the US, Hadley is almost exclusively a girl's name (nearly 100% female). In both areas, Dillon is a boy's name and Wren is a girl's name.

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mfb- t1_izd7ijc wrote

The x-axis is the fraction of babies with that given name in the US who are female, the y-axis is the same fraction in England and Wales.

Angel in the upper left as example: In the US this is usually a male given name (~90% male, 10% female out of everyone with that name), in England and Wales it's a female given name (~20% male, 80% female).

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