How popular is “Abilene” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Abilene” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Abilene” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1964	5	0.000001286	5	100%
1987	7	0.000001941	7	100%
1988	15	0.000004059	15	100%
1989	11	0.000002861	11	100%
1990	9	0.000002277	9	100%
1991	16	0.000004108	16	100%
1992	19	0.000004946	19	100%
1993	19	0.000005039	19	100%
1994	20	0.00000538	20	100%
1995	13	0.00000355	13	100%
1996	22	0.000006032	22	100%
1997	24	0.000006619	24	100%
1998	17	0.000004622	17	100%
1999	15	0.000004061	15	100%
2000	25	0.000006614	25	100%
2001	25	0.000006678	25	100%
2002	23	0.000006153	23	100%
2003	28	0.000007364	28	100%
2004	35	0.00000916	35	100%
2005	35	0.000009103	35	100%
2006	37	0.000009352	37	100%
2007	40	0.000010006	40	100%
2008	38	0.000009668	38	100%
2009	41	0.000010732	41	100%
2010	52	0.00001407	52	100%
2011	50	0.000013669	50	100%
2012	69	0.000018866	69	100%
2013	58	0.000015909	58	100%
2014	48	0.000012951	48	100%
2015	69	0.000018644	69	100%
2016	94	0.000025622	94	100%
2017	88	0.000024607	88	100%
2018	68	0.000019341	68	100%
2019	74	0.00002132	74	100%
2020	56	0.000016764	56	100%
2021	66	0.000019481	66	100%
2022	64	0.000018917	64	100%
2023	86	0.000025972	86	100%
2024	102	0.000030644	102	100%

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