Name quiz
Popular names quiz: guess the decade
Each question shows the top five names from one JPN table. Pick the right decade of birth: answers are checked at once, and every answer can be opened under its question.
- Questions
- 12
- Decades covered
- 8 / 8
- JPN tables
- 6
- Names per question
- 5
How to play
Read the five names, then pick their decade of birth. Hint: watch the spelling (Mohd or Muhammad), the length of the names and English names in the Chinese tables.
See every decade
Each decade page shows all six JPN tables for that decade, with registration counts.
Sources
How these figures were computed
Each question uses one JPN table (group, sex and decade of birth), picked by a fixed rule so every decade from the 1940s to the 2010s and every table appears. The top five entries are shown in order of registrations. The three wrong options are other decades in the same data. The share in each answer is the top entry’s share of that table’s top-10 total. First names are shown as published by JPN and can be two words; in the early 'Chinese' tables the entry is often a surname.
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How to cite
Free to quote with a link to this page. Suggested citation:
MalaysianNames (malaysiannames.com). “Malaysian Baby Names Quiz: 12 Questions from JPN Data”. https://malaysiannames.com/en/data-stories/guess-the-decade-quiz/. Updated . Data: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0), last updated 2023-07-26.
Download the JPN top-10 tables we use (decade, table, sex, rank, name, count, share of the top-10 total):
Frequently asked questions
Where do the names in this quiz come from?
From the JPN popular-name tables via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0): the top 10 names per sex, decade of birth and table (Malay, Chinese, Indian).
Does the quiz work without JavaScript?
Yes. Pick your answer, then open “Show the answer” under the question. With JavaScript, answers are checked at once and your score is kept.
Why do some questions show surnames?
In the early Chinese tables, JPN published the first word of the registered name, which is often a surname such as Tan or Lee.
Can I share this quiz?
Yes. Share this page’s link; the questions are the same for everyone, so scores can be compared.