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Novel Evidence for the Increasing Prevalence of Unique Names in China: A Reply to Ogihara

In this study, we aimed to address three comments proposed by Ogihara on a recent study where we found that unique names in China have become increasingly popular from 1950 to 2009. Using a large representative sample of Chinese names (N = 2.1 million), we replicated the increase in uniqueness of Ch...

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Autores principales: Bao, Han-Wu-Shuang, Cai, Huajian, Jing, Yiming, Wang, Jianxiong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8685573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34938229
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.731244
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description In this study, we aimed to address three comments proposed by Ogihara on a recent study where we found that unique names in China have become increasingly popular from 1950 to 2009. Using a large representative sample of Chinese names (N = 2.1 million), we replicated the increase in uniqueness of Chinese names from 1920 to 2005, especially since the 1970s, with multiple uniqueness indices based on name-character frequency and name-length deviation. Over the years, Chinese characters that are rare in daily life or naming practice were more often used in given names, and the length of given names became more deviant from typical practice (i.e., more one-character and three-character given names and higher standard deviation of name length). Taken together, these findings not only reconfirmed the increasing prevalence of unique names but also demonstrated the validity of various indices in assessing name uniqueness in China.
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spelling pubmed-86855732021-12-21 Novel Evidence for the Increasing Prevalence of Unique Names in China: A Reply to Ogihara Bao, Han-Wu-Shuang Cai, Huajian Jing, Yiming Wang, Jianxiong Front Psychol Psychology In this study, we aimed to address three comments proposed by Ogihara on a recent study where we found that unique names in China have become increasingly popular from 1950 to 2009. Using a large representative sample of Chinese names (N = 2.1 million), we replicated the increase in uniqueness of Chinese names from 1920 to 2005, especially since the 1970s, with multiple uniqueness indices based on name-character frequency and name-length deviation. Over the years, Chinese characters that are rare in daily life or naming practice were more often used in given names, and the length of given names became more deviant from typical practice (i.e., more one-character and three-character given names and higher standard deviation of name length). Taken together, these findings not only reconfirmed the increasing prevalence of unique names but also demonstrated the validity of various indices in assessing name uniqueness in China. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8685573/ /pubmed/34938229 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.731244 Text en Copyright © 2021 Bao, Cai, Jing and Wang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Bao, Han-Wu-Shuang
Cai, Huajian
Jing, Yiming
Wang, Jianxiong
Novel Evidence for the Increasing Prevalence of Unique Names in China: A Reply to Ogihara
title Novel Evidence for the Increasing Prevalence of Unique Names in China: A Reply to Ogihara
title_full Novel Evidence for the Increasing Prevalence of Unique Names in China: A Reply to Ogihara
title_fullStr Novel Evidence for the Increasing Prevalence of Unique Names in China: A Reply to Ogihara
title_full_unstemmed Novel Evidence for the Increasing Prevalence of Unique Names in China: A Reply to Ogihara
title_short Novel Evidence for the Increasing Prevalence of Unique Names in China: A Reply to Ogihara
title_sort novel evidence for the increasing prevalence of unique names in china: a reply to ogihara
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8685573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34938229
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.731244
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