Chart assignment

Personal finance chart assignment

Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.

  1. How many babies were given your name each year since 1880?
  2. How much has the US warmed since 1895?

Printable worksheet each chart with its source, date and space to write answers

Chart 1 of 2 · Baby names

How many babies were given your name each year since 1880?

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Type any name to see how many U.S. babies were given it each year since 1880, for girls or boys. Emma, shown first, went from 2,003 girls in 1880 down to 414 in 1976, then back up to a peak of 22,719 in 2003; in 2025 it was 12,754. The counts come from Social Security card applications, so the early years undercount everyone. A year with fewer than 5 babies of a name shows as 0, because Social Security leaves those names out for privacy.

How to read this chart

Each point is the number of U.S. babies given a name in one year, from Social Security card applications. Type any name to see its line, for girls or boys. These are counts, not shares, and far more babies are born today than in 1880, so a count can grow just because the country did.

Questions to discuss

  1. Look up your own name or a friend's. When was it most popular, and what might explain that?
  2. Why are counts from the 1880s lower than counts today, even for names that were very popular then?
  3. How could you change these counts to fairly compare a name's popularity in 1900 with today?

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications (national data) (Public domain (U.S. government work)) · Data as of Dec 31, 2025

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  • MLA

    “How Many Babies Were Given Your Name Each Year Since 1880?” Chartly, 31 Dec. 2025, chart.ly/charts/baby-name-popularity. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

  • APA

    Chartly. (2025, December 31). How many babies were given your name each year since 1880? [Chart]. Retrieved November 11, 2026, from https://chart.ly/charts/baby-name-popularity

  • Chicago

    Chartly. “How Many Babies Were Given Your Name Each Year Since 1880?” Chart. Data from U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications (national data). Updated December 31, 2025. Accessed November 11, 2026. https://chart.ly/charts/baby-name-popularity.

Chart 2 of 2 · Climate

How much has the US warmed since 1895?

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The contiguous US averaged 54.6°F in 2025. The warmest year since records began in 1895 was 2024, at 55.5°F. Through 2025, the dashed trend line, the straight line that best fits every year, rose about 0.18°F a decade, or 2.3°F since 1895, and warming had sped up to about 0.5°F a decade since 1970. Alaska and Hawaii aren't included.

How to read this chart

Each point is one year's average temperature across the lower 48 states, in degrees Fahrenheit. The axis doesn't start at zero, so a small rise looks steep: read the numbers on the axis, not the height of the line. The dashed line is the trend, the straight line that best fits every year; single years bounce above and below it.

Questions to discuss

  1. Find the warmest and coolest years on the chart. How many degrees apart are they?
  2. Why might one year be much cooler than the year before, even while the trend line keeps rising?
  3. The axis doesn't start at zero here, but bar charts always do. Why is that fair for temperatures but not for bars?

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance (Public domain (U.S. government work)) · Data as of Dec 31, 2025

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  • MLA

    “How Much Has the US Warmed Since 1895?” Chartly, 31 Dec. 2025, chart.ly/charts/us-average-temperature. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

  • APA

    Chartly. (2025, December 31). How much has the US warmed since 1895? [Chart]. Retrieved November 11, 2026, from https://chart.ly/charts/us-average-temperature

  • Chicago

    Chartly. “How Much Has the US Warmed Since 1895?” Chart. Data from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance. Updated December 31, 2025. Accessed November 11, 2026. https://chart.ly/charts/us-average-temperature.

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