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by nl 4056 days ago
The Jacob and Justin rises correlate very well with the baby-boomer generation beginning to have children.

It's interesting to note that the increase in the use of Justin has a matching (if slightly lagging) increase in literature[1], while the increase in Jacob isn't[2].

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Justin&year_st...

[2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Jacob&year_sta...