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How popular is “Afton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Afton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Afton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Afton” 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
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 7 0.000020635 7 100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 100%
1907 16 0.00003438 16 100%
1908 15 0.000030697 15 100%
1909 14 0.000027385 14 100%
1910 20 0.000033858 14 6 40%
1911 22 0.000034147 22 100%
1912 27 0.000027326 27 100%
1913 45 0.000039574 36 9 60%
1914 60 0.000042363 47 13 57%
1915 69 0.000037655 49 20 42%
1916 80 0.000041356 67 13 68%
1917 98 0.000048835 78 20 59%
1918 69 0.000031781 49 20 42%
1919 91 0.000043123 72 19 58%
1920 76 0.000033589 55 21 45%
1921 87 0.000037267 67 20 54%
1922 62 0.000027084 46 16 48%
1923 71 0.000030836 55 16 55%
1924 69 0.000028972 57 12 65%
1925 70 0.00003 55 15 57%
1926 59 0.000025698 43 16 46%
1927 49 0.000021127 35 14 43%
1928 45 0.000019903 26 19 16%
1929 46 0.000020984 36 10 57%
1930 40 0.000017991 34 6 70%
1931 25 0.00001188 25 100%
1932 20 0.000009473 15 5 50%
1933 37 0.000018505 27 10 46%
1934 27 0.000013001 22 5 63%
1935 19 0.000009091 19 100%
1936 31 0.000014921 24 7 55%
1937 25 0.000011733 19 6 52%
1938 24 0.000010847 14 10 17%
1939 21 0.000009531 14 7 33%
1940 23 0.000009988 13 10 13%
1941 14 0.000005746 9 5 29%
1942 19 0.000006955 13 6 37%
1943 14 0.00000496 8 6 14%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 100%
1945 12 0.000004523 6 6 0%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 100%
1948 14 0.000004055 14 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1950 12 0.000003425 7 5 17%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 100%
1974 18 0.000005921 12 6 33%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 100%
1981 82 0.000023704 76 6 85%
1982 186 0.000053022 180 6 94%
1983 186 0.000053705 186 100%
1984 134 0.000038409 127 7 90%
1985 136 0.000038105 136 100%
1986 146 0.000041045 141 5 93%
1987 130 0.000036055 124 6 91%
1988 101 0.000027334 101 100%
1989 123 0.000031994 123 100%
1990 99 0.000025048 99 100%
1991 83 0.000021308 74 9 78%
1992 70 0.000018223 63 7 80%
1993 63 0.00001671 63 100%
1994 53 0.000014256 53 100%
1995 54 0.000014745 48 6 78%
1996 52 0.000014258 42 10 62%
1997 55 0.000015169 50 5 82%
1998 43 0.00001169 43 100%
1999 56 0.00001516 45 11 61%
2000 54 0.000014286 54 100%
2001 71 0.000018967 61 10 72%
2002 70 0.000018725 59 11 69%
2003 83 0.000021829 65 18 57%
2004 79 0.000020676 64 15 62%
2005 100 0.000026009 84 16 68%
2006 84 0.000021233 69 15 64%
2007 95 0.000023764 74 21 56%
2008 130 0.000033073 107 23 65%
2009 105 0.000027486 82 23 56%
2010 113 0.000030576 92 21 63%
2011 97 0.000026519 82 15 69%
2012 115 0.000031443 92 23 60%
2013 131 0.000035933 112 19 71%
2014 117 0.000031567 100 17 71%
2015 103 0.000027831 96 7 86%
2016 101 0.00002753 85 16 68%
2017 97 0.000027124 84 13 73%
2018 102 0.000029011 90 12 76%
2019 107 0.000030827 88 19 64%
2020 100 0.000029935 86 14 72%
2021 75 0.000022137 64 11 71%
2022 61 0.000018031 54 7 77%
2023 62 0.000018724 49 13 58%
2024 55 0.000016524 41 14 49%

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