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How popular is “Ainsley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ainsley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ainsley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ainsley” 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
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1969 10 0.000002877 5 5 0%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1972 16 0.000005091 10 6 25%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 100%
1974 11 0.000003618 5 6 -9%
1975 16 0.000005299 11 5 38%
1976 17 0.000005603 10 7 18%
1977 20 0.000006296 12 8 20%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 100%
1979 23 0.000006913 16 7 39%
1980 21 0.000006097 14 7 33%
1981 23 0.000006649 17 6 48%
1982 30 0.000008552 23 7 53%
1983 34 0.000009817 25 9 47%
1984 21 0.000006019 21 100%
1985 35 0.000009806 29 6 66%
1986 45 0.000012651 39 6 73%
1987 59 0.000016363 46 13 56%
1988 76 0.000020568 67 9 76%
1989 80 0.000020809 74 6 85%
1990 91 0.000023024 84 7 85%
1991 76 0.000019511 76 100%
1992 73 0.000019004 73 100%
1993 74 0.000019627 68 6 84%
1994 66 0.000017753 61 5 85%
1995 78 0.000021299 72 6 85%
1996 90 0.000024676 82 8 82%
1997 84 0.000023168 77 7 83%
1998 121 0.000032896 112 9 85%
1999 109 0.000029508 109 100%
2000 129 0.000034128 124 5 92%
2001 590 0.000157611 578 12 96%
2002 646 0.000172806 636 10 97%
2003 697 0.000183309 686 11 97%
2004 778 0.000203616 764 14 96%
2005 698 0.000181542 691 7 98%
2006 701 0.000177191 693 8 98%
2007 711 0.000177853 704 7 98%
2008 734 0.000186737 719 15 96%
2009 780 0.000204179 772 8 98%
2010 903 0.000244335 898 5 99%
2011 905 0.000247417 891 14 97%
2012 945 0.000258383 930 15 97%
2013 985 0.000270184 974 11 98%
2014 1013 0.000273313 1001 12 98%
2015 984 0.00026588 967 17 97%
2016 983 0.000267942 969 14 97%
2017 913 0.000255299 902 11 98%
2018 780 0.00022185 774 6 98%
2019 654 0.000188422 654 100%
2020 882 0.000264026 872 10 98%
2021 853 0.000251775 844 9 98%
2022 633 0.000187105 622 11 97%
2023 507 0.000153117 498 9 96%
2024 397 0.000119273 397 100%

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