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A lot of people are predicting that Simone will be a very popular baby name soon. Thanks to the two Simones who made history yesterday.

Last night, at the Olympics American Simone Biles won gold in the All-Around Women’s Gymnastics finals and Simone Manuel won a gold medal in the women’s 100 meter freestyle finals and became the first Black woman in history to earn an individual Olympic medal in swimming.

(Manuel also earned two silver medals with the US 4×100 Freestyle and the 4×400 Freestyle relay team earlier this week and Biles holds the most Gold Medals in World Championship in gymnastics history (10) and the most medals World medals in US History (14) and is not yet done making Olympic history.)

Before yesterday’s trailblazing moments, the name Simone was actually slowly declining in popularity in America. It is ranked 821 in baby names according to US Census Bureau and Social Security Administration data.

The name is of Finnish, French, Icelandic, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish origin.

It was most popular in Denmark in 2001 when it made the top 200 list at number 44.

In 2015, of all states the name was popular in New York and Washington State.

But as a lot of people on the Internets have already said, we too anticipate its stock will be rising pretty soon! Check back with us next year when we confirm!

More visualizationdata, compliments of Moosetrack

Tonight is the opening ceremony for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As in past years, we can expect fans and the athletes to decorate their nails in support of their home country or the team they are supporting. For the 2012, Olympics Buzzfeed did a spotlight on all the fab nails that female swimmers wore during the games (like the ones in the header and below)

Also, CNN also did a tribute to the fan arts in this montage that included some of these nails:

Finally, for the 2014 World Cup, we did a round up of fun DIY nails for all the teams that qualified for those games as well, which coincidentally were also in Brazil. Hope these draw some inspiration if you are moved to go brave and paint your nails in honor of your fave team.

ALGERIA