The internet’s favorite name as a password Of course, these are just some speculations we’re making from this dataset. The spike in ‘2000’ could be birth years, but could also be special years, as it was the turn of the millennium The spike in ‘2010’ usage in passwords could indicate parents whose child was born in that specific year or other special occasions. The rise from the 1940s to the 1990s correlates to the birth years of the password creators, such that there were more password-creators born in 1980-1990 than those born 1940-1980 The trend goes down after that, to rise again sharply from 2004 to 2010.īased on the three general possibilities about why people use years in their passwords, we could make some assumptions: Looking at the graph in total, there’s a steady increase in usage from around 1940 all the way to 1990. The second-most popular used year was 1987 at 8.4 million, and the third was 1991 at nearly 8.3 million. The year in which the password was createdįrom our analysis, we see that the most popular year was 2010, with nearly 10 million versions of this year used in passwords. Making a rough assumption, people may generally use years in their passwords to mark: One of the most interesting things is when we looked at which years from 1900-2020 were the most used by people when they made passwords. ![]()
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