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How popular is “Adele” in the USA?

Number of people named “Adele” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Adele” by birth year

This chart shows how “Adele” 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 41 0.00020349 41 100%
1881 43 0.000223159 43 100%
1882 64 0.000288896 64 100%
1883 68 0.000313442 68 100%
1884 71 0.000291628 71 100%
1885 71 0.000294784 71 100%
1886 79 0.00030942 79 100%
1887 80 0.000323373 80 100%
1888 116 0.000387346 116 100%
1889 115 0.000397998 115 100%
1890 133 0.000441273 133 100%
1891 113 0.000394177 113 100%
1892 123 0.000367852 123 100%
1893 144 0.000442773 144 100%
1894 151 0.000445835 151 100%
1895 166 0.000472908 166 100%
1896 152 0.000425194 152 100%
1897 187 0.000538972 187 100%
1898 165 0.000432554 165 100%
1899 164 0.000483442 164 100%
1900 186 0.000413096 186 100%
1901 157 0.000454004 157 100%
1902 172 0.000444751 172 100%
1903 164 0.00043022 164 100%
1904 163 0.00040398 163 100%
1905 200 0.000471785 200 100%
1906 199 0.000464464 199 100%
1907 191 0.000410408 191 100%
1908 197 0.000403152 192 5 95%
1909 257 0.000502715 257 100%
1910 288 0.000487548 288 100%
1911 298 0.000462533 298 100%
1912 418 0.00042305 418 100%
1913 492 0.000432676 492 100%
1914 709 0.000500585 709 100%
1915 897 0.000489515 897 100%
1916 902 0.00046629 902 100%
1917 960 0.000478385 960 100%
1918 1036 0.000477175 1030 6 99%
1919 886 0.000419856 886 100%
1920 944 0.000417211 944 100%
1921 890 0.000381237 890 100%
1922 900 0.000393158 900 100%
1923 789 0.000342674 789 100%
1924 812 0.000340946 812 100%
1925 738 0.00031629 738 100%
1926 682 0.000297051 682 100%
1927 713 0.000307413 713 100%
1928 637 0.000281741 637 100%
1929 555 0.000253175 555 100%
1930 558 0.00025098 558 100%
1931 499 0.000237124 499 100%
1932 486 0.000230191 486 100%
1933 362 0.00018105 362 100%
1934 396 0.000190676 396 100%
1935 365 0.00017465 365 100%
1936 359 0.000172797 359 100%
1937 372 0.000174593 372 100%
1938 370 0.000167226 370 100%
1939 309 0.000140235 309 100%
1940 322 0.000139837 322 100%
1941 313 0.000128467 313 100%
1942 355 0.00012995 355 100%
1943 367 0.000130024 367 100%
1944 332 0.000123416 332 100%
1945 330 0.000124392 330 100%
1946 399 0.000124871 399 100%
1947 435 0.000120755 435 100%
1948 470 0.000136133 470 100%
1949 440 0.000126263 440 100%
1950 433 0.000123596 433 100%
1951 433 0.000117544 433 100%
1952 477 0.000125592 477 100%
1953 443 0.000114956 443 100%
1954 423 0.000106263 423 100%
1955 382 0.000095141 382 100%
1956 362 0.000087799 362 100%
1957 315 0.000074962 315 100%
1958 294 0.000071119 294 100%
1959 301 0.000072391 301 100%
1960 272 0.000065482 272 100%
1961 275 0.000066388 275 100%
1962 241 0.000059722 241 100%
1963 204 0.000051539 204 100%
1964 191 0.000049131 191 100%
1965 186 0.000051304 186 100%
1966 165 0.000047473 165 100%
1967 116 0.000034169 116 100%
1968 112 0.000033152 112 100%
1969 130 0.000037407 130 100%
1970 104 0.000028837 104 100%
1971 108 0.000031465 108 100%
1972 99 0.000031499 99 100%
1973 105 0.000034804 105 100%
1974 102 0.000033553 102 100%
1975 103 0.000034113 103 100%
1976 97 0.000031968 97 100%
1977 112 0.000035259 112 100%
1978 77 0.000024261 77 100%
1979 99 0.000029757 99 100%
1980 89 0.000025838 89 100%
1981 96 0.000027751 96 100%
1982 87 0.000024801 87 100%
1983 100 0.000028874 100 100%
1984 87 0.000024937 87 100%
1985 74 0.000020733 74 100%
1986 74 0.000020804 74 100%
1987 83 0.00002302 83 100%
1988 80 0.000021651 80 100%
1989 76 0.000019769 76 100%
1990 92 0.000023277 92 100%
1991 88 0.000022592 88 100%
1992 72 0.000018744 72 100%
1993 84 0.00002228 84 100%
1994 91 0.000024478 91 100%
1995 91 0.000024849 91 100%
1996 79 0.00002166 79 100%
1997 91 0.000025098 91 100%
1998 83 0.000022565 83 100%
1999 98 0.00002653 98 100%
2000 94 0.000024868 94 100%
2001 102 0.000027248 102 100%
2002 90 0.000024075 90 100%
2003 116 0.000030508 116 100%
2004 112 0.000029312 112 100%
2005 116 0.00003017 116 100%
2006 111 0.000028057 111 100%
2007 148 0.000037021 148 100%
2008 156 0.000039688 156 100%
2009 236 0.000061777 236 100%
2010 287 0.000077657 287 100%
2011 462 0.000126306 462 100%
2012 564 0.000154209 564 100%
2013 443 0.000121514 443 100%
2014 366 0.000098749 366 100%
2015 444 0.00011997 444 100%
2016 443 0.000120751 443 100%
2017 347 0.000097031 347 100%
2018 297 0.000084473 297 100%
2019 368 0.000106023 368 100%
2020 343 0.000102677 343 100%
2021 340 0.000100356 340 100%
2022 344 0.000101681 344 100%
2023 334 0.00010087 334 100%
2024 351 0.000105453 351 100%

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