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How popular is “Achilles” in the USA?

Number of people named “Achilles” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Achilles” by birth year

This chart shows how “Achilles” 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
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 10 0.000004312 10 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1932 13 0.000006157 13 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1992 8 0.000002083 8 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1997 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2004 32 0.000008375 32 -100%
2005 133 0.000034592 133 -100%
2006 161 0.000040696 161 -100%
2007 111 0.000027766 111 -100%
2008 128 0.000032564 128 -100%
2009 100 0.000026177 100 -100%
2010 110 0.000029764 110 -100%
2011 123 0.000033627 123 -100%
2012 148 0.000040466 148 -100%
2013 142 0.00003895 142 -100%
2014 171 0.000046137 171 -100%
2015 214 0.000057824 214 -100%
2016 227 0.000061875 227 -100%
2017 234 0.000065433 234 -100%
2018 257 0.000073097 257 -100%
2019 208 0.000059926 208 -100%
2020 192 0.000057475 192 -100%
2021 196 0.000057852 196 -100%
2022 189 0.000055865 189 -100%
2023 160 0.000048321 160 -100%
2024 164 0.000049271 164 -100%

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