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How popular is “Alastair” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alastair” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alastair” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alastair” 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
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 -100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 -100%
1986 24 0.000006747 24 -100%
1987 19 0.00000527 19 -100%
1988 20 0.000005413 20 -100%
1989 18 0.000004682 18 -100%
1990 13 0.000003289 13 -100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 -100%
1992 22 0.000005727 22 -100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 -100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 -100%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 -100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 -100%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 15 0.000004061 15 -100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 -100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 -100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 -100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 -100%
2004 18 0.000004711 18 -100%
2005 24 0.000006242 24 -100%
2006 36 0.0000091 36 -100%
2007 29 0.000007254 29 -100%
2008 37 0.000009413 37 -100%
2009 33 0.000008638 33 -100%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 -100%
2011 27 0.000007382 27 -100%
2012 38 0.00001039 38 -100%
2013 28 0.00000768 28 -100%
2014 36 0.000009713 36 -100%
2015 47 0.0000127 47 -100%
2016 50 0.000013629 50 -100%
2017 61 0.000017057 61 -100%
2018 46 0.000013083 46 -100%
2019 62 0.000017863 62 -100%
2020 39 0.000011675 39 -100%
2021 61 0.000018005 61 -100%
2022 50 0.000014779 50 -100%
2023 60 0.00001812 60 -100%
2024 59 0.000017726 59 -100%

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