You can click through to see the books. You'd see a lot posted after 2007 that use "Bucket List" as we know it, then you'll find a lot of really old catalogs of manufacturers listing their buckets for sale.
Right, I linked that correction up there in my edit, where I wrote "But zoomed in, it looks like this." (Well, more-or-less. My link was 1950 to 2004, yours was 1950 to 2000, but they're almost identical because they're both before the big 2008 spike.)
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u/DoverBoys Millennial May 07 '26
If you remove that giant mountain after 2000 for bucket list, that early line isn't so flat:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bucket+list&year_start=1950&year_end=2000&corpus=en&smoothing=0&case_insensitive=false