While perusing some baby websites, as I am wont to do on occasion, I stumbled upon an extremely interesting little web-tool known as the NameVoyager. In a massive graph, you will see thousands of names, listed alphabetically, with the width of its bar tracking the name's popularity from the 1880s to 2006. It's a great little tool to see how many little kids will be running around with your name in the near future. This is really only a concern to people with the more infrequent names.
This graph would have you believe that there were no "Josiah"s born between 1900 and 1960, which is obviously wrong, but nonetheless a pretty good estimation. What scares me is all the new "Josiah"s. In ten years, they're gonna be all over the place.
BONUS! You can use it to see the ranking of most popular names throughout history, divided by male and female. Number one girl name in 2006: Emily. Number one boy name in 2006: Jacob. Number one girl name in 1880: Mary. Number one boy name in 1880: John, followed closely by William.
EDIT: The names Piers and Sayer are rare enough that they don't show up at all. Sorry.
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You might find this map of popular baby names interesting as well. It includes data from all the US states as well other countries. The "Compare Names" feature can be useful for seeing the relative popularity of names in your area. Josiah is definitely gaining in popularity these days.
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