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How popular is “Anthony” in the USA?

Number of people named “Anthony” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Anthony” by birth year

This chart shows how “Anthony” 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 130 0.000645213 130 -100%
1881 128 0.000664286 128 -100%
1882 139 0.000627446 139 -100%
1883 143 0.000659153 143 -100%
1884 179 0.000735231 179 -100%
1885 153 0.00063524 153 -100%
1886 174 0.000681506 174 -100%
1887 153 0.000618449 153 -100%
1888 193 0.000644463 193 -100%
1889 219 0.000757927 219 -100%
1890 189 0.000627072 189 -100%
1891 170 0.000593012 170 -100%
1892 255 0.000762619 255 -100%
1893 220 0.000676459 220 -100%
1894 257 0.000758806 257 -100%
1895 221 0.000629592 221 -100%
1896 281 0.000786049 5 276 -96%
1897 249 0.000717668 249 -100%
1898 325 0.000852001 325 -100%
1899 291 0.000857815 291 -100%
1900 406 0.000901703 406 -100%
1901 328 0.000948492 5 323 -97%
1902 420 0.001086021 420 -100%
1903 399 0.001046689 399 -100%
1904 422 0.001045888 422 -100%
1905 490 0.001155868 490 -100%
1906 542 0.001265022 542 -100%
1907 593 0.001274197 593 -100%
1908 690 0.001412054 690 -100%
1909 758 0.001482716 758 -100%
1910 986 0.001669175 6 980 -99%
1911 1295 0.002010002 7 1288 -99%
1912 2488 0.002518063 8 2480 -99%
1913 2789 0.002452707 8 2781 -99%
1914 3709 0.002618711 14 3695 -99%
1915 4746 0.002590003 24 4722 -99%
1916 4765 0.002463277 16 4749 -99%
1917 5046 0.002514513 19 5027 -99%
1918 5187 0.002389098 19 5168 -99%
1919 4761 0.002256134 24 4737 -99%
1920 4976 0.002199198 32 4944 -99%
1921 5262 0.002254013 23 5239 -99%
1922 5115 0.002234449 24 5091 -99%
1923 5147 0.002235412 26 5121 -99%
1924 5211 0.002188013 20 5191 -99%
1925 5066 0.002171169 25 5041 -99%
1926 5092 0.00221787 34 5058 -99%
1927 4950 0.002134209 31 4919 -99%
1928 4748 0.002100027 31 4717 -99%
1929 4783 0.002181874 49 4734 -98%
1930 4704 0.002115785 30 4674 -99%
1931 4348 0.002066179 39 4309 -98%
1932 4257 0.002016314 34 4223 -98%
1933 4000 0.002000568 26 3974 -99%
1934 3858 0.001857664 18 3840 -99%
1935 3933 0.001881933 24 3909 -99%
1936 3994 0.001922447 16 3978 -99%
1937 4363 0.002047749 24 4339 -99%
1938 4705 0.002126484 16 4689 -99%
1939 4636 0.002103998 27 4609 -99%
1940 4788 0.002079355 19 4769 -99%
1941 5258 0.002158122 19 5239 -99%
1942 6232 0.002281315 23 6209 -99%
1943 6224 0.002205094 22 6202 -99%
1944 5618 0.002088432 14 5604 -100%
1945 5696 0.002147109 10 5686 -100%
1946 6797 0.002127203 25 6772 -99%
1947 8037 0.002231099 23 8014 -99%
1948 7902 0.002288772 23 7879 -99%
1949 8472 0.002431172 20 8452 -100%
1950 8636 0.002465056 23 8613 -99%
1951 9873 0.00268017 32 9841 -99%
1952 11225 0.002955498 43 11182 -99%
1953 11730 0.003043897 35 11695 -99%
1954 13182 0.003311491 58 13124 -99%
1955 14230 0.003544181 57 14173 -99%
1956 15629 0.003790651 67 15562 -99%
1957 17123 0.004074904 66 17057 -99%
1958 17514 0.00423632 82 17432 -99%
1959 18044 0.004340922 82 17962 -99%
1960 19595 0.00471723 97 19498 -99%
1961 20328 0.00490783 122 20206 -99%
1962 20204 0.005007409 104 20100 -99%
1963 20353 0.005141812 111 20242 -99%
1964 20248 0.005208403 121 20127 -99%
1965 20440 0.005637872 111 20329 -99%
1966 20799 0.00598434 172 20627 -98%
1967 21038 0.006196973 157 20881 -99%
1968 20365 0.006028067 137 20228 -99%
1969 21065 0.006061262 158 20907 -98%
1970 21321 0.005911822 143 21178 -99%
1971 19362 0.005641141 137 19225 -99%
1972 17594 0.005597804 134 17460 -98%
1973 16563 0.00549016 145 16418 -98%
1974 16516 0.005432895 126 16390 -98%
1975 16622 0.005505117 136 16486 -98%
1976 16745 0.005518549 140 16605 -98%
1977 16951 0.005336524 146 16805 -98%
1978 16956 0.005342458 150 16806 -98%
1979 17674 0.005312356 154 17520 -98%
1980 17771 0.005159254 161 17610 -98%
1981 18706 0.005407399 132 18574 -99%
1982 19785 0.005640061 135 19650 -99%
1983 19996 0.005773724 164 19832 -98%
1984 21118 0.006053334 158 20960 -99%
1985 22294 0.006246611 199 22095 -98%
1986 22158 0.006229501 198 21960 -98%
1987 23336 0.006472352 213 23123 -98%
1988 23818 0.006446251 178 23640 -99%
1989 24546 0.006384985 124 24422 -99%
1990 25185 0.006372324 100 25085 -99%
1991 24530 0.006297675 87 24443 -99%
1992 23256 0.006054547 81 23175 -99%
1993 21880 0.005803506 94 21786 -99%
1994 21690 0.005834596 90 21600 -99%
1995 20569 0.005616846 87 20482 -99%
1996 20573 0.005641007 67 20506 -99%
1997 20073 0.005536414 41 20032 -100%
1998 19686 0.005352237 51 19635 -99%
1999 19525 0.005285959 55 19470 -99%
2000 19705 0.005213251 52 19653 -99%
2001 19777 0.005283354 40 19737 -100%
2002 19635 0.005252622 45 19590 -100%
2003 20187 0.005309551 38 20149 -100%
2004 19669 0.0051481 56 19613 -99%
2005 19411 0.005048969 27 19384 -100%
2006 19438 0.004913804 26 19412 -100%
2007 19666 0.004919874 30 19636 -100%
2008 18438 0.004691486 28 18410 -100%
2009 16349 0.00428041 26 16323 -100%
2010 15532 0.004203352 27 15505 -100%
2011 14309 0.003912606 24 14285 -100%
2012 13239 0.00362053 15 13224 -100%
2013 12306 0.003376315 15 12291 -100%
2014 11624 0.00313703 18 11606 -100%
2015 10669 0.002883631 13 10656 -100%
2016 9904 0.002700461 11 9893 -100%
2017 8877 0.002483273 9 8868 -100%
2018 8046 0.002289601 5 8041 -100%
2019 7721 0.002225847 6 7715 -100%
2020 7035 0.002107647 9 7026 -100%
2021 6786 0.002004912 5 6781 -100%
2022 6595 0.001951986 7 6588 -100%
2023 6245 0.001894005 8 6237 -100%