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How popular is “Adel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Adel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Adel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Adel” 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
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1898 10 0.000026215 10 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 100%
1913 15 0.000013191 15 100%
1914 20 0.000014121 15 5 50%
1915 20 0.000010914 20 100%
1916 24 0.000012407 24 100%
1917 23 0.000011461 23 100%
1918 32 0.000014739 27 5 69%
1919 18 0.00000853 18 100%
1920 27 0.000011933 21 6 56%
1921 26 0.000011137 26 100%
1922 23 0.000010047 23 100%
1923 25 0.000010858 25 100%
1924 15 0.000006298 15 100%
1925 22 0.000009429 22 100%
1926 20 0.000008711 20 100%
1927 20 0.000008623 20 100%
1928 13 0.00000575 13 100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 100%
1930 23 0.000010345 17 6 48%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 100%
1932 12 0.000005684 7 5 17%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 100%
1934 8 0.000003852 8 100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 100%
1936 17 0.000008183 17 100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 100%
1938 13 0.000005876 13 100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 100%
1944 11 0.000004089 6 5 9%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 100%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 100%
1948 13 0.000003765 13 100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 13 0.000003238 13 100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 13 0.00000313 13 100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 100%
1962 14 0.000003469 7 7 0%
1964 15 0.000003858 10 5 33%
1965 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 17 0.000004892 10 7 18%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 12 0.000003947 5 7 -17%
1975 19 0.000006293 11 8 16%
1976 18 0.000005932 11 7 22%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 14 0.000004411 8 6 14%
1979 24 0.000007214 9 15 -25%
1980 22 0.000006387 11 11 0%
1981 16 0.000004625 5 11 -38%
1982 13 0.000003706 6 7 -8%
1983 25 0.000007218 11 14 -12%
1984 35 0.000010032 12 23 -31%
1985 22 0.000006164 7 15 -36%
1986 18 0.00000506 9 9 0%
1987 31 0.000008598 10 21 -35%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 -100%
1989 26 0.000006763 6 20 -54%
1990 19 0.000004807 19 -100%
1991 26 0.000006675 26 -100%
1992 41 0.000010674 6 35 -71%
1993 39 0.000010344 7 32 -64%
1994 29 0.000007801 5 24 -66%
1995 36 0.00000983 6 30 -67%
1996 35 0.000009596 10 25 -43%
1997 44 0.000012135 11 33 -50%
1998 41 0.000011147 11 30 -46%
1999 29 0.000007851 29 -100%
2000 37 0.000009789 6 31 -68%
2001 45 0.000012021 11 34 -51%
2002 47 0.000012573 9 38 -62%
2003 46 0.000012098 12 34 -48%
2004 50 0.000013086 13 37 -48%
2005 50 0.000013004 9 41 -64%
2006 65 0.00001643 14 51 -57%
2007 63 0.000015759 11 52 -65%
2008 57 0.000014501 17 40 -40%
2009 59 0.000015444 25 34 -15%
2010 50 0.000013529 9 41 -64%
2011 57 0.000015583 17 40 -40%
2012 63 0.000017226 24 39 -24%
2013 43 0.000011795 14 29 -35%
2014 65 0.000017537 23 42 -29%
2015 65 0.000017563 24 41 -26%
2016 56 0.000015264 17 39 -39%
2017 54 0.0000151 15 39 -44%
2018 63 0.000017919 21 42 -33%
2019 56 0.000016134 20 36 -29%
2020 57 0.000017063 20 37 -30%
2021 49 0.000014463 19 30 -22%
2022 54 0.000015962 20 34 -26%
2023 58 0.000017516 21 37 -28%
2024 63 0.000018927 25 38 -21%

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