Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Anchor” in the USA?

Number of people named “Anchor” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Anchor” by birth year

This chart shows how “Anchor” 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
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2014 13 0.000003507 13 -100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 -100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 -100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 -100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 -100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 -100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 -100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 -100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 -100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Anchor:

  1. Ance
  2. Ancel
  3. Ancelmo
  4. Anchal
  5. Anchita
  6. Anchor (this page)
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  8. Ancil
  9. Ancle
  10. Ancy
  11. Anda