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How popular is “Allen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Allen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Allen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Allen” 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 184 0.000913224 184 -100%
1881 172 0.000892635 172 -100%
1882 206 0.000929884 206 -100%
1883 175 0.000806652 175 -100%
1884 182 0.000747553 182 -100%
1885 184 0.000763948 184 -100%
1886 211 0.000826427 211 -100%
1887 202 0.000816518 202 -100%
1888 260 0.000868189 260 -100%
1889 222 0.00076831 222 -100%
1890 189 0.000627072 189 -100%
1891 173 0.000603475 173 -100%
1892 224 0.000669909 224 -100%
1893 180 0.000553466 180 -100%
1894 219 0.000646609 219 -100%
1895 196 0.000558373 196 -100%
1896 225 0.000629399 6 219 -95%
1897 226 0.000651378 226 -100%
1898 190 0.000498093 5 185 -95%
1899 191 0.000563033 191 -100%
1900 231 0.000513039 8 223 -93%
1901 199 0.000575457 199 -100%
1902 227 0.000586968 227 -100%
1903 224 0.000587618 5 219 -96%
1904 228 0.000565077 228 -100%
1905 272 0.000641627 272 -100%
1906 282 0.000658185 282 -100%
1907 317 0.000681149 8 309 -95%
1908 292 0.000597566 5 287 -97%
1909 318 0.000622037 6 312 -96%
1910 364 0.000616207 9 355 -95%
1911 414 0.00064258 12 402 -94%
1912 743 0.000751977 13 730 -97%
1913 918 0.00080731 15 903 -97%
1914 1074 0.00075829 25 1049 -95%
1915 1483 0.00080931 25 1458 -97%
1916 1584 0.000818851 12 1572 -98%
1917 1617 0.00080578 25 1592 -97%
1918 1801 0.000829529 22 1779 -98%
1919 1672 0.000792325 19 1653 -98%
1920 1885 0.000833097 19 1866 -98%
1921 1961 0.000840007 24 1937 -98%
1922 1920 0.000838737 33 1887 -97%
1923 1890 0.000820854 15 1875 -98%
1924 2070 0.00086916 25 2045 -98%
1925 2070 0.000887155 36 2034 -97%
1926 2041 0.000888974 20 2021 -98%
1927 2132 0.00091922 30 2102 -97%
1928 2161 0.000955798 25 2136 -98%
1929 2217 0.001011331 28 2189 -97%
1930 2308 0.001038102 30 2278 -97%
1931 2333 0.001108636 25 2308 -98%
1932 2446 0.001158533 27 2419 -98%
1933 2227 0.001113808 23 2204 -98%
1934 2257 0.00108676 16 2241 -99%
1935 2332 0.001115843 20 2312 -98%
1936 2325 0.001119092 11 2314 -99%
1937 2531 0.001187889 13 2518 -99%
1938 2853 0.001289448 19 2834 -99%
1939 2956 0.001341537 27 2929 -98%
1940 3044 0.001321935 16 3028 -99%
1941 3081 0.001264558 21 3060 -99%
1942 3604 0.001319268 33 3571 -98%
1943 3656 0.001295279 30 3626 -98%
1944 3435 0.001276914 13 3422 -99%
1945 3499 0.001318929 18 3481 -99%
1946 4310 0.001348853 16 4294 -99%
1947 5099 0.001415476 24 5075 -99%
1948 4780 0.001384497 25 4755 -99%
1949 4756 0.001364794 21 4735 -99%
1950 4860 0.00138724 19 4841 -99%
1951 5203 0.001412424 24 5179 -99%
1952 4971 0.001308845 15 4956 -99%
1953 4876 0.001265296 20 4856 -99%
1954 4853 0.00121913 22 4831 -99%
1955 4767 0.001187274 25 4742 -99%
1956 4638 0.001124899 27 4611 -99%
1957 4426 0.001053272 13 4413 -99%
1958 4549 0.001100413 24 4525 -99%
1959 4384 0.001054355 17 4367 -99%
1960 4392 0.001057341 20 4372 -99%
1961 4414 0.001065591 26 4388 -99%
1962 4296 0.001064586 26 4270 -99%
1963 4356 0.0011005 17 4339 -99%
1964 4121 0.001060036 23 4098 -99%
1965 3855 0.001063317 19 3836 -99%
1966 3446 0.000991468 26 3420 -98%
1967 3147 0.00092698 24 3123 -98%
1968 2982 0.000882663 18 2964 -99%
1969 2910 0.000837332 25 2885 -98%
1970 2953 0.000818796 21 2932 -99%
1971 2686 0.000782553 15 2671 -99%
1972 2311 0.000735286 8 2303 -99%
1973 2092 0.00069343 15 2077 -99%
1974 2115 0.000695724 13 2102 -99%
1975 2046 0.000677619 12 2034 -99%
1976 1986 0.000654517 18 1968 -98%
1977 1843 0.000580199 24 1819 -97%
1978 1837 0.000578789 9 1828 -99%
1979 1955 0.000587616 17 1938 -98%
1980 2228 0.000646827 17 2211 -98%
1981 2082 0.000601843 19 2063 -98%
1982 2240 0.000638547 22 2218 -98%
1983 2266 0.000654282 19 2247 -98%
1984 2144 0.000614546 21 2123 -98%
1985 2208 0.000618642 21 2187 -98%
1986 2152 0.000604991 32 2120 -97%
1987 2189 0.000607109 17 2172 -98%
1988 2219 0.000600534 10 2209 -99%
1989 2372 0.000616994 12 2360 -99%
1990 2235 0.000565468 15 2220 -99%
1991 2122 0.000544764 14 2108 -99%
1992 1931 0.000502698 12 1919 -99%
1993 1913 0.000507389 13 1900 -99%
1994 1760 0.000473417 12 1748 -99%
1995 1561 0.000426252 11 1550 -99%
1996 1473 0.000403872 5 1468 -99%
1997 1415 0.000390264 7 1408 -99%
1998 1316 0.000357783 1316 -100%
1999 1320 0.000357349 5 1315 -99%
2000 1358 0.000359268 8 1350 -99%
2001 1396 0.000372924 7 1389 -99%
2002 1390 0.000371828 6 1384 -99%
2003 1318 0.000346631 1318 -100%
2004 1309 0.000342587 8 1301 -99%
2005 1236 0.000321469 5 1231 -99%
2006 1229 0.000310653 1229 -100%
2007 1197 0.000299423 1197 -100%
2008 1148 0.000292063 9 1139 -98%
2009 1038 0.000271715 1038 -100%
2010 982 0.000265711 8 974 -98%
2011 1010 0.000276123 5 1005 -99%
2012 963 0.000263304 5 958 -99%
2013 924 0.000253452 7 917 -98%
2014 864 0.000233112 5 859 -99%
2015 975 0.000263449 975 -100%
2016 901 0.000245591 6 895 -99%
2017 790 0.000220905 790 -100%
2018 741 0.000210757 741 -100%
2019 709 0.000204268 7 702 -98%
2020 648 0.000193978 11 637 -97%
2021 558 0.000164701 558 -100%
2022 529 0.000156364 529 -100%
2023 572 0.000172747 572 -100%
2024 497 0.000149316 497 -100%

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