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How popular is “Alistair” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alistair” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alistair” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alistair” 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
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 12 0.000003496 12 -100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 -100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 -100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 -100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 14 0.000004013 14 -100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 -100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 -100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 -100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 21 0.000005391 21 -100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 -100%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 -100%
1994 25 0.000006725 25 -100%
1995 19 0.000005188 19 -100%
1996 23 0.000006306 23 -100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 -100%
1998 18 0.000004894 18 -100%
1999 30 0.000008122 30 -100%
2000 24 0.000006349 24 -100%
2001 21 0.00000561 21 -100%
2002 26 0.000006955 26 -100%
2003 23 0.000006049 23 -100%
2004 31 0.000008113 31 -100%
2005 42 0.000010924 42 -100%
2006 53 0.000013397 53 -100%
2007 71 0.00001776 71 -100%
2008 68 0.0000173 68 -100%
2009 90 0.000023559 90 -100%
2010 81 0.000021917 81 -100%
2011 108 0.000029526 108 -100%
2012 126 0.000034451 126 -100%
2013 132 0.000036207 132 -100%
2014 179 0.000048295 179 -100%
2015 197 0.00005323 197 -100%
2016 247 0.000067326 247 -100%
2017 225 0.000062916 225 -100%
2018 205 0.000058307 205 -100%
2019 221 0.000063672 221 -100%
2020 226 0.000067653 226 -100%
2021 255 0.000075267 255 -100%
2022 248 0.000073305 248 -100%
2023 250 0.000075501 250 -100%
2024 257 0.000077212 257 -100%

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