How popular is “Anniston” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Anniston” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Anniston” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1996	7	0.000001919	7	100%
1997	9	0.000002482	9	100%
1998	12	0.000003262	12	100%
1999	21	0.000005685	21	100%
2000	11	0.00000291	11	100%
2001	18	0.000004808	18	100%
2002	41	0.000010968	41	100%
2003	32	0.000008416	32	100%
2004	43	0.000011254	43	100%
2005	40	0.000010404	40	100%
2006	57	0.000014408	57	100%
2007	53	0.000013258	53	100%
2008	59	0.00001501	59	100%
2009	89	0.000023297	89	100%
2010	149	0.000040317	149	100%
2011	165	0.000045109	165	100%
2012	204	0.000055778	204	100%
2013	206	0.000056505	206	100%
2014	302	0.000081481	302	100%
2015	256	0.000069172	256	100%
2016	273	0.000074413	273	100%
2017	234	0.000065433	234	100%
2018	224	0.000063711	224	100%
2019	194	0.000055893	194	100%
2020	157	0.000046998	157	100%
2021	188	0.000055491	188	100%
2022	146	0.000043155	146	100%
2023	168	0.000050737	168	100%
2024	162	0.000048671	162	100%

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