Proportion of babies with the name Angelica

Hamilton and Angelica

Angelica Schuyler Church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Schuyler_Church, 1756–1814) was the daughter of New York Governer Philip Schuyler and sister of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Angelica, New York was named after her. Generate a plot of the reported proportion of babies born with the name Angelica over time and interpret the figure.

Solution

unisex <- c("Angelica")
babynames %>% 
  filter(name %in% unisex) %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = year, y = prop)) +
  geom_line(aes(color = sex)) +
  labs(x = NULL, y = "number born with name")

Proportion of babies born named Angelica over the last century

It looks like pretty much all babies named Angelica are Female, and somewhere between 1960 and 1970 there was a spike in the proportion of names. Around 1990 was the peak, and from there until about 2010 the proportion has been going down.