How popular is “Alejandro” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alejandro” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alejandro” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alejandro” 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
1885	5	0.000020759		5	-100%
1887	5	0.000020211		5	-100%
1890	5	0.000016589		5	-100%
1898	5	0.000013108		5	-100%
1900	6	0.000013326		6	-100%
1901	5	0.000014459		5	-100%
1902	6	0.000015515		6	-100%
1903	8	0.000020986		8	-100%
1904	8	0.000019827		8	-100%
1905	7	0.000016512		7	-100%
1907	7	0.000015041		7	-100%
1908	8	0.000016372		8	-100%
1909	11	0.000021517		11	-100%
1910	7	0.00001185		7	-100%
1912	9	0.000009109		9	-100%
1913	14	0.000012312		14	-100%
1914	23	0.000016239		23	-100%
1915	24	0.000013097		24	-100%
1916	31	0.000016026		31	-100%
1917	42	0.000020929		42	-100%
1918	37	0.000017042		37	-100%
1919	41	0.000019429		41	-100%
1920	67	0.000029611		67	-100%
1921	70	0.000029985		70	-100%
1922	63	0.000027521		63	-100%
1923	70	0.000030402		70	-100%
1924	58	0.000024353		58	-100%
1925	87	0.000037286		87	-100%
1926	67	0.000029182		67	-100%
1927	88	0.000037942		88	-100%
1928	79	0.000034941		79	-100%
1929	83	0.000037862		83	-100%
1930	102	0.000045878		102	-100%
1931	89	0.000042293		89	-100%
1932	88	0.000041681	5	83	-89%
1933	81	0.000040511		81	-100%
1934	78	0.000037557		78	-100%
1935	81	0.000038758		81	-100%
1936	62	0.000029842		62	-100%
1937	74	0.000034731		74	-100%
1938	61	0.00002757		61	-100%
1939	64	0.000029045		64	-100%
1940	85	0.000036913		85	-100%
1941	72	0.000029551		72	-100%
1942	60	0.000021963		60	-100%
1943	69	0.000024446		69	-100%
1944	94	0.000034943		94	-100%
1945	86	0.000032417		86	-100%
1946	105	0.000032861		105	-100%
1947	116	0.000032201		116	-100%
1948	134	0.000038812		134	-100%
1949	117	0.000033575		117	-100%
1950	117	0.000033397		117	-100%
1951	149	0.000040448		149	-100%
1952	175	0.000046077		175	-100%
1953	152	0.000039443		152	-100%
1954	161	0.000040445		161	-100%
1955	154	0.000038355		154	-100%
1956	178	0.000043172		178	-100%
1957	211	0.000050212		211	-100%
1958	205	0.00004959		205	-100%
1959	211	0.000050746		211	-100%
1960	201	0.000048389		201	-100%
1961	247	0.000059629		247	-100%
1962	247	0.000061209		247	-100%
1963	262	0.000066192		262	-100%
1964	300	0.000077168		300	-100%
1965	282	0.000077783		282	-100%
1966	313	0.000090055		313	-100%
1967	310	0.000091314		310	-100%
1968	426	0.000126095	5	421	-98%
1969	521	0.000149914	5	516	-98%
1970	587	0.000162761		587	-100%
1971	689	0.000200737	8	681	-98%
1972	702	0.000223354		702	-100%
1973	774	0.000256556	11	763	-97%
1974	879	0.000289145	9	870	-98%
1975	1030	0.000341128	6	1024	-99%
1976	1089	0.000358897	13	1076	-98%
1977	1091	0.00034346	9	1082	-98%
1978	1119	0.000352566	11	1108	-98%
1979	1255	0.000377217	14	1241	-98%
1980	1327	0.000385251	24	1303	-96%
1981	1500	0.000433604	11	1489	-99%
1982	1523	0.000434155	24	1499	-97%
1983	1359	0.000392396	25	1334	-96%
1984	1339	0.000383805	19	1320	-97%
1985	1480	0.000414669	21	1459	-97%
1986	1657	0.000465832	24	1633	-97%
1987	1603	0.000444584	17	1586	-98%
1988	1634	0.000442214	26	1608	-97%
1989	2117	0.000550664	32	2085	-97%
1990	2681	0.000678309	38	2643	-97%
1991	2812	0.000721902	25	2787	-98%
1992	3238	0.00084295	62	3176	-96%
1993	3583	0.000950328	48	3535	-97%
1994	3505	0.000942799	37	3468	-98%
1995	3564	0.000973197	34	3530	-98%
1996	3707	0.001016397	31	3676	-98%
1997	4028	0.001110943	30	3998	-99%
1998	4071	0.001106789	27	4044	-99%
1999	4337	0.001174108	18	4319	-99%
2000	4540	0.001201089	30	4510	-99%
2001	4577	0.001222688	20	4557	-99%
2002	4375	0.001170321	19	4356	-99%
2003	4337	0.00114062	20	4317	-99%
2004	4465	0.001168566	14	4451	-99%
2005	4492	0.001168318	11	4481	-100%
2006	4563	0.001153383	12	4551	-99%
2007	4294	0.001074122	13	4281	-99%
2008	4176	0.001062416	8	4168	-100%
2009	3449	0.000902838	6	3443	-100%
2010	3720	0.001006565	8	3712	-100%
2011	3096	0.000846412	5	3091	-100%
2012	2734	0.000747532	5	2729	-100%
2013	2469	0.000677242		2469	-100%
2014	2608	0.000703652	6	2602	-100%
2015	2316	0.000625792		2316	-100%
2016	2208	0.000601848		2208	-100%
2017	2032	0.000568202		2032	-100%
2018	1900	0.000540403		1900	-100%
2019	1971	0.000567859		1971	-100%
2020	1792	0.000536434		1792	-100%
2021	1843	0.000543987		1843	-100%
2022	1964	0.000580527		1964	-100%
2023	1835	0.00055418		1835	-100%
2024	1992	0.000598468		1992	-100%

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