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How popular is “Alberta” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alberta” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alberta” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alberta” 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 76 0.000377201 76 100%
1881 64 0.000332143 64 100%
1882 90 0.00040626 90 100%
1883 72 0.00033188 72 100%
1884 102 0.000418958 102 100%
1885 97 0.000402734 97 100%
1886 98 0.000383838 98 100%
1887 116 0.000468891 116 100%
1888 147 0.000490861 147 100%
1889 130 0.000449911 130 100%
1890 165 0.000547443 165 100%
1891 167 0.000582545 167 100%
1892 189 0.000565235 189 100%
1893 179 0.000550392 179 100%
1894 227 0.000670229 227 100%
1895 242 0.000689419 242 100%
1896 258 0.000721711 258 100%
1897 294 0.000847367 294 100%
1898 302 0.000791705 302 100%
1899 304 0.000896137 304 100%
1900 547 0.001214859 541 6 98%
1901 386 0.001116213 386 100%
1902 422 0.001091192 417 5 98%
1903 483 0.001267051 483 100%
1904 517 0.001281336 517 100%
1905 577 0.001361099 577 100%
1906 555 0.001295364 548 7 97%
1907 627 0.001347257 627 100%
1908 647 0.001324059 641 6 98%
1909 747 0.001461199 738 9 98%
1910 840 0.001422015 832 8 98%
1911 801 0.001243252 801 100%
1912 1141 0.001154786 1133 8 99%
1913 1196 0.001051789 1196 100%
1914 1362 0.000961631 1350 12 98%
1915 1682 0.000917909 1675 7 99%
1916 1773 0.000916555 1765 8 99%
1917 1825 0.000909431 1818 7 99%
1918 2004 0.00092303 1988 16 98%
1919 2026 0.000960078 2017 9 99%
1920 1975 0.000872873 1967 8 99%
1921 1936 0.000829298 1929 7 99%
1922 1863 0.000813837 1852 11 99%
1923 1932 0.000839095 1921 11 99%
1924 1830 0.000768388 1817 13 99%
1925 1850 0.000792868 1843 7 99%
1926 1716 0.000747418 1701 15 98%
1927 1721 0.000742016 1707 14 98%
1928 1568 0.000693517 1555 13 98%
1929 1584 0.000722575 1569 15 98%
1930 1479 0.000665231 1464 15 98%
1931 1362 0.000647219 1354 8 99%
1932 1301 0.000616211 1285 16 98%
1933 1170 0.000585162 1156 14 98%
1934 1126 0.000542176 1121 5 99%
1935 1062 0.000508158 1053 9 98%
1936 1039 0.000500102 1031 8 98%
1937 1003 0.000470744 998 5 99%
1938 969 0.000437951 960 9 98%
1939 934 0.000423882 926 8 98%
1940 937 0.000406916 927 10 98%
1941 869 0.00035667 864 5 99%
1942 987 0.000361298 987 100%
1943 967 0.000342597 957 10 98%
1944 827 0.000307426 827 100%
1945 769 0.00028987 762 7 98%
1946 817 0.000255687 810 7 98%
1947 772 0.000214306 772 100%
1948 719 0.000208254 719 100%
1949 693 0.000198865 688 5 99%
1950 606 0.000172977 606 100%
1951 621 0.000168579 621 100%
1952 542 0.000142706 537 5 98%
1953 551 0.000142982 551 100%
1954 514 0.000129123 508 6 98%
1955 475 0.000118304 475 100%
1956 445 0.00010793 445 100%
1957 435 0.000103519 435 100%
1958 350 0.000084666 350 100%
1959 369 0.000088745 369 100%
1960 374 0.000090038 374 100%
1961 317 0.000076528 317 100%
1962 288 0.000071369 283 5 97%
1963 265 0.00006695 265 100%
1964 229 0.000058905 229 100%
1965 222 0.000061234 222 100%
1966 189 0.000054378 189 100%
1967 199 0.000058617 199 100%
1968 180 0.000053279 180 100%
1969 157 0.000045176 157 100%
1970 140 0.000038819 140 100%
1971 118 0.000034379 118 100%
1972 113 0.000035953 113 100%
1973 112 0.000037124 112 100%
1974 89 0.000029276 89 100%
1975 78 0.000025833 78 100%
1976 88 0.000029002 88 100%
1977 55 0.000017315 55 100%
1978 81 0.000025521 81 100%
1979 64 0.000019237 64 100%
1980 67 0.000019451 67 100%
1981 62 0.000017922 62 100%
1982 77 0.00002195 77 100%
1983 68 0.000019634 68 100%
1984 66 0.000018918 66 100%
1985 68 0.000019052 63 5 85%
1986 53 0.0000149 44 9 66%
1987 51 0.000014145 45 6 76%
1988 35 0.000009472 35 100%
1989 41 0.000010665 41 100%
1990 42 0.000010626 42 100%
1991 48 0.000012323 48 100%
1992 41 0.000010674 41 100%
1993 43 0.000011405 43 100%
1994 43 0.000011566 43 100%
1995 31 0.000008465 31 100%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 100%
1997 31 0.00000855 31 100%
1998 19 0.000005166 19 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 26 0.000006878 26 100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 100%
2002 26 0.000006955 26 100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 100%
2014 8 0.000002158 8 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 100%

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