Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Adelie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Adelie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Adelie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Adelie” 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
2003 9 0.000002367 9 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 100%
2008 28 0.000007123 28 100%
2009 37 0.000009685 37 100%
2010 31 0.000008388 31 100%
2011 32 0.000008748 32 100%
2012 43 0.000011757 43 100%
2013 51 0.000013989 51 100%
2014 51 0.00001376 51 100%
2015 40 0.000010808 40 100%
2016 35 0.00000954 35 100%
2017 28 0.00000783 28 100%
2018 31 0.000008817 31 100%
2019 39 0.000011236 39 100%
2020 23 0.000006885 23 100%
2021 48 0.000014168 48 100%
2022 37 0.000010937 37 100%
2023 25 0.00000755 25 100%
2024 17 0.000005107 17 100%

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