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How popular is “Abel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Abel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Abel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Abel” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Abel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Abel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Abel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Abel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 9 0.000044669 9 -100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 -100%
1882 10 0.00004514 10 -100%
1883 12 0.000055313 12 -100%
1884 14 0.000057504 14 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1886 16 0.000062667 16 -100%
1887 11 0.000044464 11 -100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 -100%
1889 9 0.000031148 9 -100%
1890 14 0.00004645 14 -100%
1891 10 0.000034883 10 -100%
1892 8 0.000023925 8 -100%
1893 13 0.000039973 13 -100%
1894 15 0.000044288 15 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1896 15 0.00004196 15 -100%
1897 12 0.000034586 12 -100%
1898 10 0.000026215 10 -100%
1899 15 0.000044217 15 -100%
1900 15 0.000033314 15 -100%
1901 13 0.000037593 13 -100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 -100%
1903 14 0.000036726 14 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 -100%
1906 11 0.000025674 11 -100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 -100%
1908 15 0.000030697 15 -100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 30 0.000046564 30 -100%
1912 40 0.000040483 40 -100%
1913 48 0.000042212 48 -100%
1914 51 0.000036008 51 -100%
1915 64 0.000034926 64 -100%
1916 62 0.000032051 62 -100%
1917 86 0.000042855 86 -100%
1918 76 0.000035005 76 -100%
1919 91 0.000043123 91 -100%
1920 79 0.000034915 79 -100%
1921 84 0.000035982 84 -100%
1922 91 0.000039753 91 -100%
1923 73 0.000031705 73 -100%
1924 110 0.000046187 110 -100%
1925 83 0.000035572 83 -100%
1926 101 0.000043991 101 -100%
1927 79 0.000034061 79 -100%
1928 85 0.000037595 85 -100%
1929 96 0.000043792 96 -100%
1930 122 0.000054874 122 -100%
1931 93 0.000044193 93 -100%
1932 95 0.000044996 95 -100%
1933 96 0.000048013 96 -100%
1934 93 0.00004478 93 -100%
1935 92 0.000044021 92 -100%
1936 75 0.0000361 75 -100%
1937 91 0.00004271 91 -100%
1938 87 0.000039321 87 -100%
1939 95 0.000043114 95 -100%
1940 101 0.000043862 101 -100%
1941 121 0.000049663 121 -100%
1942 105 0.000038436 105 -100%
1943 92 0.000032595 92 -100%
1944 118 0.000043865 118 -100%
1945 113 0.000042595 113 -100%
1946 117 0.000036616 117 -100%
1947 146 0.000040529 146 -100%
1948 151 0.000043736 151 -100%
1949 161 0.000046201 161 -100%
1950 170 0.000048525 170 -100%
1951 183 0.000049678 183 -100%
1952 162 0.000042654 162 -100%
1953 217 0.00005631 217 -100%
1954 223 0.00005602 223 -100%
1955 215 0.000053548 215 -100%
1956 215 0.000052146 215 -100%
1957 236 0.000056162 236 -100%
1958 241 0.000058298 241 -100%
1959 226 0.000054353 226 -100%
1960 247 0.000059463 247 -100%
1961 281 0.000067837 281 -100%
1962 258 0.000063935 258 -100%
1963 272 0.000068718 272 -100%
1964 274 0.00007048 274 -100%
1965 282 0.000077783 282 -100%
1966 256 0.000073655 256 -100%
1967 251 0.000073934 251 -100%
1968 267 0.000079031 267 -100%
1969 277 0.000079705 277 -100%
1970 283 0.000078469 283 -100%
1971 310 0.000090317 310 -100%
1972 321 0.000102132 321 -100%
1973 360 0.000119328 360 -100%
1974 330 0.000108553 330 -100%
1975 387 0.000128171 5 382 -97%
1976 395 0.000130178 395 -100%
1977 347 0.00010924 347 -100%
1978 371 0.000116892 371 -100%
1979 434 0.000130448 6 428 -97%
1980 479 0.000139062 5 474 -98%
1981 485 0.000140199 6 479 -98%
1982 468 0.000133411 468 -100%
1983 435 0.000125601 9 426 -96%
1984 427 0.000122393 427 -100%
1985 461 0.000129164 461 -100%
1986 487 0.00013691 5 482 -98%
1987 463 0.000128411 5 458 -98%
1988 519 0.000140458 5 514 -98%
1989 549 0.000142803 8 541 -97%
1990 613 0.000155093 7 606 -98%
1991 623 0.000159938 623 -100%
1992 631 0.000164268 631 -100%
1993 625 0.00016577 5 620 -98%
1994 584 0.000157088 584 -100%
1995 717 0.000195786 717 -100%
1996 606 0.000166155 606 -100%
1997 718 0.000198028 718 -100%
1998 668 0.00018161 668 -100%
1999 711 0.000192481 711 -100%
2000 763 0.000201857 763 -100%
2001 733 0.000195812 733 -100%
2002 775 0.000207314 775 -100%
2003 760 0.000199878 5 755 -99%
2004 797 0.000208588 6 791 -98%
2005 855 0.000222376 855 -100%
2006 924 0.000233558 924 -100%
2007 940 0.000235136 940 -100%
2008 864 0.00021981 864 -100%
2009 969 0.000253653 5 964 -99%
2010 1127 0.000304946 1127 -100%
2011 1516 0.000414458 8 1508 -99%
2012 1951 0.000533444 1951 -100%
2013 2245 0.0006158 7 2238 -99%
2014 2572 0.000693939 2572 -100%
2015 3254 0.000879243 10 3244 -99%
2016 3050 0.000831358 6 3044 -100%
2017 2712 0.000758348 2712 -100%
2018 2693 0.00076595 11 2682 -99%
2019 2467 0.00071076 2467 -100%
2020 2130 0.000637614 2130 -100%
2021 1966 0.000580292 12 1954 -99%
2022 1773 0.00052407 7 1766 -99%
2023 1658 0.000500725 5 1653 -99%
2024 1635 0.000491212 8 1627 -99%

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