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How popular is “Alf” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alf” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alf” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alf” 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 7 0.000034742 7 -100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1883 15 0.000069142 15 -100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1886 9 0.00003525 9 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 10 0.000033392 10 -100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 -100%
1890 10 0.000033178 10 -100%
1891 11 0.000038371 11 -100%
1892 10 0.000029907 10 -100%
1893 11 0.000033823 11 -100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1896 9 0.000025176 9 -100%
1897 10 0.000028822 10 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1901 12 0.000034701 12 -100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 -100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 -100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 -100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 19 0.00002949 19 -100%
1912 22 0.000022266 22 -100%
1913 20 0.000017588 20 -100%
1914 27 0.000019063 27 -100%
1915 34 0.000018555 34 -100%
1916 38 0.000019644 38 -100%
1917 36 0.000017939 36 -100%
1918 32 0.000014739 32 -100%
1919 36 0.00001706 36 -100%
1920 26 0.000011491 26 -100%
1921 27 0.000011566 27 -100%
1922 18 0.000007863 18 -100%
1923 27 0.000011726 27 -100%
1924 34 0.000014276 34 -100%
1925 18 0.000007714 18 -100%
1926 17 0.000007404 17 -100%
1927 25 0.000010779 25 -100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 -100%
1929 21 0.00000958 21 -100%
1930 19 0.000008546 19 -100%
1931 18 0.000008554 18 -100%
1932 17 0.000008052 17 -100%
1933 18 0.000009002 18 -100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 -100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 -100%
1936 18 0.000008664 18 -100%
1937 14 0.000006571 14 -100%
1938 13 0.000005876 13 -100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 -100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 -100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 -100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 -100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 -100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 17 0.000004878 17 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%

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