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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Alvin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alvin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alvin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alvin” 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 102 0.000506244 102 -100%
1881 105 0.000544922 105 -100%
1882 132 0.000595848 132 -100%
1883 113 0.000520867 113 -100%
1884 145 0.000595578 145 -100%
1885 125 0.000518987 125 -100%
1886 112 0.000438672 112 -100%
1887 128 0.000517397 128 -100%
1888 157 0.000524253 157 -100%
1889 137 0.000474137 137 -100%
1890 147 0.000487722 147 -100%
1891 121 0.000422084 121 -100%
1892 164 0.000490469 164 -100%
1893 163 0.000501195 163 -100%
1894 167 0.000493076 167 -100%
1895 179 0.000509942 179 -100%
1896 183 0.000511911 183 -100%
1897 186 0.000536089 186 -100%
1898 184 0.000482364 184 -100%
1899 173 0.000509972 173 -100%
1900 223 0.000495272 223 -100%
1901 179 0.000517622 179 -100%
1902 201 0.000519738 201 -100%
1903 222 0.000582371 222 -100%
1904 247 0.000612166 247 -100%
1905 258 0.000608603 258 -100%
1906 239 0.000557823 239 -100%
1907 245 0.00052644 245 -100%
1908 312 0.000638495 5 307 -97%
1909 363 0.000710061 363 -100%
1910 401 0.000678843 401 -100%
1911 465 0.000721738 5 460 -98%
1912 936 0.000947309 7 929 -99%
1913 1144 0.001006059 1144 -100%
1914 1542 0.001088719 10 1532 -99%
1915 2017 0.001100727 11 2006 -99%
1916 2116 0.00109387 23 2093 -98%
1917 2164 0.00107836 22 2142 -98%
1918 2437 0.001122467 28 2409 -98%
1919 2405 0.001139678 22 2383 -98%
1920 2545 0.001124791 22 2523 -98%
1921 2705 0.001158704 18 2687 -99%
1922 2613 0.001141469 15 2598 -99%
1923 2674 0.001161356 27 2647 -98%
1924 2783 0.001168537 24 2759 -98%
1925 2796 0.001198302 19 2777 -99%
1926 2714 0.001182105 21 2693 -98%
1927 2908 0.001253795 25 2883 -98%
1928 2767 0.001223828 17 2750 -99%
1929 2585 0.001179202 30 2555 -98%
1930 2536 0.001140653 24 2512 -98%
1931 2324 0.001104359 25 2299 -98%
1932 2291 0.001085118 17 2274 -99%
1933 2137 0.001068796 9 2128 -99%
1934 2167 0.001043424 20 2147 -98%
1935 2180 0.001043112 15 2165 -99%
1936 1984 0.000954958 14 1970 -99%
1937 1991 0.000934448 5 1986 -99%
1938 2069 0.00093511 6 2063 -99%
1939 1957 0.000888156 17 1940 -98%
1940 1922 0.000834678 12 1910 -99%
1941 2028 0.000832367 12 2016 -99%
1942 2083 0.000762496 12 2071 -99%
1943 2213 0.00078404 10 2203 -99%
1944 1982 0.000736781 15 1967 -98%
1945 1873 0.000706017 11 1862 -99%
1946 2056 0.000643444 9 2047 -99%
1947 2228 0.00061849 13 2215 -99%
1948 2280 0.000660388 10 2270 -99%
1949 2170 0.000622709 12 2158 -99%
1950 2286 0.000652517 17 2269 -99%
1951 2394 0.000649883 8 2386 -99%
1952 2345 0.000617429 10 2335 -99%
1953 2125 0.000551426 15 2110 -99%
1954 2385 0.00059914 17 2368 -99%
1955 2377 0.000592018 18 2359 -98%
1956 2449 0.00059398 17 2432 -99%
1957 2413 0.000574231 27 2386 -98%
1958 2204 0.000533152 22 2182 -98%
1959 2272 0.000546418 12 2260 -99%
1960 2006 0.00048293 10 1996 -99%
1961 1887 0.000455544 12 1875 -99%
1962 1729 0.000428461 18 1711 -98%
1963 1515 0.00038275 14 1501 -98%
1964 1477 0.000379925 16 1461 -98%
1965 1339 0.000369334 11 1328 -98%
1966 1253 0.000360508 14 1239 -98%
1967 1230 0.000362308 5 1225 -99%
1968 1120 0.000331517 8 1112 -99%
1969 1073 0.000308748 12 1061 -98%
1970 1104 0.000306113 17 1087 -97%
1971 1040 0.000302999 12 1028 -98%
1972 887 0.000282215 5 882 -99%
1973 878 0.000291028 8 870 -98%
1974 822 0.000270395 11 811 -97%
1975 863 0.000285819 7 856 -98%
1976 773 0.000254754 7 766 -98%
1977 767 0.000241461 5 762 -99%
1978 810 0.000255209 10 800 -98%
1979 823 0.00024737 8 815 -98%
1980 876 0.000254318 8 868 -98%
1981 814 0.000235303 8 806 -98%
1982 795 0.000226627 12 783 -97%
1983 714 0.000206159 8 706 -98%
1984 700 0.000200645 10 690 -97%
1985 718 0.000201171 13 705 -96%
1986 685 0.000192574 7 678 -98%
1987 736 0.000204126 7 729 -98%
1988 696 0.00018836 8 688 -98%
1989 829 0.000215636 6 823 -99%
1990 749 0.000189501 749 -100%
1991 700 0.000179705 7 693 -98%
1992 638 0.000166091 5 633 -98%
1993 648 0.000171871 648 -100%
1994 563 0.00015144 7 556 -98%
1995 548 0.000149639 548 -100%
1996 499 0.000136817 499 -100%
1997 541 0.000149211 541 -100%
1998 521 0.000141645 521 -100%
1999 520 0.000140774 520 -100%
2000 522 0.000138099 522 -100%
2001 540 0.000144254 540 -100%
2002 533 0.000142579 533 -100%
2003 477 0.00012545 477 -100%
2004 482 0.000126148 482 -100%
2005 516 0.000134206 516 -100%
2006 516 0.000130429 516 -100%
2007 522 0.000130576 522 -100%
2008 658 0.000167402 658 -100%
2009 469 0.000122769 469 -100%
2010 490 0.000132585 490 -100%
2011 464 0.000126852 464 -100%
2012 505 0.000138077 505 -100%
2013 457 0.000125354 457 -100%
2014 461 0.00012438 461 -100%
2015 455 0.000122943 455 -100%
2016 469 0.000127838 469 -100%
2017 438 0.000122477 438 -100%
2018 390 0.000110925 390 -100%
2019 399 0.000114955 399 -100%
2020 377 0.000112855 377 -100%
2021 325 0.000095928 325 -100%
2022 352 0.000104046 352 -100%
2023 337 0.000101776 337 -100%
2024 316 0.000094938 316 -100%

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