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How popular is “Agnes” in the USA?

Number of people named “Agnes” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Agnes” by birth year

This chart shows how “Agnes” 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 473 0.002347581 473 100%
1881 424 0.002200448 424 100%
1882 565 0.00255041 565 100%
1883 623 0.002871682 623 100%
1884 703 0.002887526 703 100%
1885 695 0.002885566 695 100%
1886 779 0.003051121 779 100%
1887 901 0.003641993 896 5 99%
1888 1046 0.003492791 1046 100%
1889 1033 0.003575062 1033 100%
1890 1095 0.003633034 1095 100%
1891 1125 0.003924332 1125 100%
1892 1333 0.003986554 1328 5 99%
1893 1399 0.004301664 1393 6 99%
1894 1477 0.00436092 1470 7 99%
1895 1466 0.0041764 1466 100%
1896 1661 0.004646362 1654 7 99%
1897 1585 0.004568289 1579 6 99%
1898 1708 0.004477592 1708 100%
1899 1619 0.004772517 1611 8 99%
1900 1922 0.004268664 1914 8 99%
1901 1534 0.004435936 1525 9 99%
1902 1681 0.004346668 1676 5 99%
1903 1622 0.004254984 1616 6 99%
1904 1672 0.004143897 1672 100%
1905 1729 0.004078581 1718 11 99%
1906 1766 0.004121825 1758 8 99%
1907 1842 0.003957971 1829 13 99%
1908 1941 0.003972176 1934 7 99%
1909 1985 0.003882838 1974 11 99%
1910 2176 0.003683697 2163 13 99%
1911 2315 0.003593169 2315 100%
1912 2959 0.002994751 2945 14 99%
1913 3218 0.002829981 3206 12 99%
1914 3735 0.002637071 3721 14 99%
1915 4803 0.002621115 4795 8 100%
1916 4860 0.002512385 4852 8 100%
1917 5077 0.002529961 5066 11 100%
1918 5303 0.002442528 5291 12 100%
1919 4908 0.002325796 4901 7 100%
1920 4920 0.002174448 4907 13 99%
1921 4817 0.002063392 4798 19 99%
1922 4489 0.001960985 4480 9 100%
1923 4233 0.001838452 4222 11 99%
1924 4255 0.001786607 4240 15 99%
1925 3925 0.001682165 3911 14 99%
1926 3552 0.001547102 3533 19 99%
1927 3354 0.00144609 3338 16 99%
1928 3035 0.001342363 3023 12 99%
1929 2782 0.001269067 2770 12 99%
1930 2520 0.001133456 2510 10 99%
1931 2312 0.001098657 2303 9 99%
1932 2126 0.001006967 2117 9 99%
1933 1890 0.000945261 1876 14 99%
1934 1940 0.000934122 1932 8 99%
1935 1589 0.000760323 1589 100%
1936 1606 0.000773015 1592 14 98%
1937 1430 0.00067115 1421 9 99%
1938 1393 0.000629583 1393 100%
1939 1305 0.000592255 1299 6 99%
1940 1200 0.000521131 1190 10 98%
1941 1093 0.000448608 1093 100%
1942 1141 0.000417671 1132 9 98%
1943 1054 0.00037342 1054 100%
1944 961 0.000357239 961 100%
1945 824 0.000310602 824 100%
1946 868 0.000271648 868 100%
1947 839 0.000232905 839 100%
1948 835 0.000241852 835 100%
1949 728 0.000208909 722 6 98%
1950 748 0.000213509 748 100%
1951 655 0.000177808 655 100%
1952 627 0.000165087 627 100%
1953 640 0.000166077 640 100%
1954 524 0.000131635 524 100%
1955 563 0.000140221 563 100%
1956 508 0.00012321 508 100%
1957 494 0.000117559 494 100%
1958 419 0.000101357 419 100%
1959 424 0.000101972 424 100%
1960 428 0.000103038 428 100%
1961 396 0.000095599 396 100%
1962 354 0.000087724 354 100%
1963 321 0.000081097 321 100%
1964 278 0.000071509 278 100%
1965 258 0.000071164 258 100%
1966 203 0.000058406 203 100%
1967 193 0.00005685 193 100%
1968 155 0.00004588 155 100%
1969 129 0.000037119 129 100%
1970 120 0.000033273 120 100%
1971 132 0.000038458 132 100%
1972 121 0.000038498 121 100%
1973 94 0.000031158 94 100%
1974 94 0.000030921 94 100%
1975 87 0.000028814 87 100%
1976 66 0.000021751 66 100%
1977 63 0.000019833 63 100%
1978 65 0.00002048 65 100%
1979 72 0.000021641 72 100%
1980 77 0.000022354 77 100%
1981 91 0.000026305 91 100%
1982 69 0.00001967 69 100%
1983 82 0.000023677 82 100%
1984 63 0.000018058 63 100%
1985 67 0.000018772 67 100%
1986 69 0.000019398 69 100%
1987 70 0.000019414 70 100%
1988 77 0.000020839 77 100%
1989 79 0.000020549 79 100%
1990 76 0.000019228 76 100%
1991 67 0.0000172 67 100%
1992 69 0.000017963 69 100%
1993 55 0.000014588 55 100%
1994 59 0.00001587 59 100%
1995 61 0.000016657 61 100%
1996 64 0.000017548 64 100%
1997 48 0.000013239 48 100%
1998 64 0.0000174 64 100%
1999 63 0.000017055 63 100%
2000 68 0.00001799 68 100%
2001 60 0.000016028 60 100%
2002 54 0.000014445 54 100%
2003 62 0.000016306 62 100%
2004 57 0.000014918 57 100%
2005 59 0.000015345 59 100%
2006 68 0.000017188 68 100%
2007 65 0.000016259 65 100%
2008 61 0.000015519 61 100%
2009 81 0.000021203 81 100%
2010 67 0.000018129 67 100%
2011 97 0.000026519 97 100%
2012 123 0.000033631 123 100%
2013 124 0.000034013 124 100%
2014 191 0.000051533 191 100%
2015 191 0.000051609 191 100%
2016 233 0.00006351 233 100%
2017 199 0.000055646 199 100%
2018 198 0.000056316 198 100%
2019 215 0.000061943 215 100%
2020 182 0.000054482 182 100%
2021 215 0.00006346 215 100%
2022 228 0.000067393 228 100%
2023 229 0.000069159 229 100%
2024 233 0.000070001 233 100%

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