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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Adolf” in the USA?

Number of people named “Adolf” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Adolf” by birth year

This chart shows how “Adolf” 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 6 0.000029779 6 -100%
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1885 7 0.000029063 7 -100%
1891 10 0.000034883 10 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1897 8 0.000023058 8 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1908 10 0.000020465 10 -100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 13 0.000020178 13 -100%
1912 23 0.000023278 23 -100%
1913 22 0.000019347 22 -100%
1914 37 0.000026124 37 -100%
1915 45 0.000024558 45 -100%
1916 55 0.000028432 55 -100%
1917 50 0.000024916 50 -100%
1918 56 0.000025793 56 -100%
1919 46 0.000021798 46 -100%
1920 46 0.00002033 46 -100%
1921 50 0.000021418 50 -100%
1922 23 0.000010047 23 -100%
1923 41 0.000017807 41 -100%
1924 42 0.000017635 42 -100%
1925 40 0.000017143 40 -100%
1926 40 0.000017422 40 -100%
1927 36 0.000015522 36 -100%
1928 51 0.000022557 51 -100%
1929 24 0.000010948 24 -100%
1930 38 0.000017092 38 -100%
1931 25 0.00001188 25 -100%
1932 22 0.00001042 22 -100%
1933 17 0.000008502 17 -100%
1934 21 0.000010112 21 -100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 -100%
1936 20 0.000009627 20 -100%
1937 21 0.000009856 21 -100%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 -100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 -100%
1940 21 0.00000912 21 -100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 10 0.00000287 10 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 -100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 -100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 -100%
1964 12 0.000003087 12 -100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%

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