The 2022 SSA data just came out -- when I checked the top 1000 list wouldn't come up though you could search individual names and their 2022 rank would.
One name I checked was
Flavia, which did NOT make the top 1000 again this year. I realized this is a bit curious to me what with "internal v" being so popular in many of today's "hits" like
Olivia,
Ava,
Ivy, etc. and
Freya having started to rise in the USA (it was up to 129th in 2022).
This is doubly interesting to me as someone who pays some attention to popular genre literature as there are now two different popular mystery series featuring female detectives named
Flavia. Since 2009 the Canadian author
Alan Bradley has published ten books in his "
Flavia de
Luce" series, where that character is an 11 year old girl in an English village who is precociously intelligent. Since child characters are often especially good at inspiring name fashions, if she ever gets a TV show perhaps
Flavia will take off.
The other mystery series is British author
Lindsey Davis's "
Flavia Alba" series, where the detective is a young woman in ancient Rome. This series began in 2013, and is a sequel to
Davis's original "
Marcus Didius Falco" series.
Flavia is
Marcus's adopted daughter.
I guess most people who read mystery series books are past the age of child-bearing. Just wondered if any of you think
Flavia would boom if it got just a little publicity in media that people in their teens and 20s frequently view.