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How popular is “Abraham” in the USA?

Number of people named “Abraham” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Abraham” 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 “Abraham” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Abraham” by birth year

This chart shows how “Abraham” 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 81 0.000402017 81 -100%
1881 86 0.000446317 86 -100%
1882 91 0.000410774 91 -100%
1883 52 0.000239691 52 -100%
1884 67 0.000275198 67 -100%
1885 86 0.000357063 86 -100%
1886 77 0.000301587 77 -100%
1887 75 0.000303163 75 -100%
1888 78 0.000260457 78 -100%
1889 83 0.000287251 83 -100%
1890 70 0.000232249 70 -100%
1891 62 0.000216274 62 -100%
1892 99 0.000296076 99 -100%
1893 103 0.000316706 103 -100%
1894 73 0.000215536 73 -100%
1895 94 0.000267791 94 -100%
1896 109 0.000304909 109 -100%
1897 62 0.000178697 62 -100%
1898 92 0.000241182 92 -100%
1899 85 0.000250565 85 -100%
1900 100 0.000222095 100 -100%
1901 62 0.000179288 62 -100%
1902 82 0.000212033 82 -100%
1903 95 0.000249213 95 -100%
1904 111 0.000275103 111 -100%
1905 112 0.0002642 112 -100%
1906 122 0.000284747 122 -100%
1907 148 0.000318013 148 -100%
1908 150 0.000306969 150 -100%
1909 163 0.000318843 163 -100%
1910 191 0.000323339 191 -100%
1911 292 0.000453221 292 -100%
1912 533 0.00053944 533 -100%
1913 551 0.000484562 551 -100%
1914 700 0.00049423 700 -100%
1915 790 0.000431122 790 -100%
1916 753 0.000389265 753 -100%
1917 731 0.000364271 731 -100%
1918 757 0.000348669 757 -100%
1919 742 0.000351618 742 -100%
1920 656 0.000289926 656 -100%
1921 683 0.000292567 683 -100%
1922 599 0.000261668 599 -100%
1923 556 0.000241479 556 -100%
1924 554 0.000232616 554 -100%
1925 489 0.000209574 489 -100%
1926 427 0.000185983 427 -100%
1927 406 0.000175048 406 -100%
1928 401 0.00017736 401 -100%
1929 343 0.000156467 343 -100%
1930 344 0.000154726 344 -100%
1931 293 0.000139233 293 -100%
1932 275 0.000130252 275 -100%
1933 246 0.000123034 246 -100%
1934 243 0.000117006 243 -100%
1935 259 0.000123929 259 -100%
1936 214 0.000103005 214 -100%
1937 217 0.000101846 217 -100%
1938 212 0.000095816 212 -100%
1939 197 0.000089406 197 -100%
1940 219 0.000095106 219 -100%
1941 194 0.000079625 194 -100%
1942 234 0.000085657 234 -100%
1943 199 0.000070503 199 -100%
1944 194 0.000072117 194 -100%
1945 205 0.000077274 205 -100%
1946 210 0.000065721 210 -100%
1947 241 0.000066901 241 -100%
1948 252 0.00007299 252 -100%
1949 287 0.000082358 287 -100%
1950 300 0.000085632 300 -100%
1951 285 0.000077367 285 -100%
1952 254 0.000066877 254 -100%
1953 315 0.000081741 315 -100%
1954 304 0.000076368 304 -100%
1955 285 0.000070982 285 -100%
1956 308 0.000074702 308 -100%
1957 273 0.000064967 273 -100%
1958 283 0.000068458 283 -100%
1959 310 0.000074555 310 -100%
1960 293 0.000070538 293 -100%
1961 277 0.000066871 277 -100%
1962 279 0.000069139 279 -100%
1963 275 0.000069476 275 -100%
1964 272 0.000069966 272 -100%
1965 275 0.000075853 275 -100%
1966 253 0.000072792 253 -100%
1967 227 0.000066865 227 -100%
1968 257 0.000076071 257 -100%
1969 302 0.000086898 302 -100%
1970 353 0.000097878 353 -100%
1971 369 0.000107506 5 364 -97%
1972 388 0.000123449 388 -100%
1973 403 0.000133581 403 -100%
1974 462 0.000151974 6 456 -97%
1975 506 0.000167583 5 501 -98%
1976 570 0.000187852 570 -100%
1977 678 0.000213443 678 -100%
1978 699 0.000220236 10 689 -97%
1979 744 0.000223625 8 736 -98%
1980 779 0.000226157 779 -100%
1981 813 0.000235014 813 -100%
1982 847 0.000241451 10 837 -98%
1983 782 0.000225794 9 773 -98%
1984 861 0.000246793 10 851 -98%
1985 857 0.000240116 8 849 -98%
1986 918 0.000258077 8 910 -98%
1987 917 0.000254326 10 907 -98%
1988 974 0.000263596 974 -100%
1989 1006 0.000261676 7 999 -99%
1990 1140 0.000288427 5 1135 -99%
1991 1166 0.000299338 5 1161 -99%
1992 1143 0.000297558 1143 -100%
1993 1177 0.000312178 7 1170 -99%
1994 1234 0.00033193 9 1225 -99%
1995 1287 0.000351432 1287 -100%
1996 1336 0.000366309 1336 -100%
1997 1428 0.00039385 1428 -100%
1998 1548 0.000420857 5 1543 -99%
1999 1599 0.00043288 8 1591 -99%
2000 1694 0.00044816 8 1686 -99%
2001 1826 0.000487793 5 1821 -99%
2002 1801 0.000481771 1801 -100%
2003 1902 0.000500221 6 1896 -99%
2004 1995 0.000522125 7 1988 -99%
2005 2051 0.000533442 5 2046 -100%
2006 2208 0.000558113 2208 -100%
2007 2145 0.000536561 2145 -100%
2008 2153 0.000547744 5 2148 -100%
2009 2115 0.00055364 5 2110 -100%
2010 1925 0.00052087 1925 -100%
2011 1938 0.000529828 1938 -100%
2012 1959 0.000535631 5 1954 -99%
2013 2222 0.000609491 6 2216 -99%
2014 2392 0.000645374 10 2382 -99%
2015 2460 0.000664701 6 2454 -100%
2016 2583 0.000704064 2583 -100%
2017 2333 0.000652369 5 2328 -100%
2018 2372 0.00067465 2372 -100%
2019 2064 0.000594653 2064 -100%
2020 1899 0.000568465 1899 -100%
2021 1913 0.000564648 1913 -100%
2022 1840 0.000543874 1840 -100%
2023 1695 0.0005119 1695 -100%
2024 1729 0.000519453 1729 -100%

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