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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 0.000664279 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 0.000644465 193 -100%
1889 219 0.000757927 219 -100%
1890 189 0.000627072 189 -100%
1891 170 0.000593014 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 0.000851999 325 -100%
1899 291 0.000857817 291 -100%
1900 406 0.000901699 406 -100%
1901 328 0.000948492 5 323 -97%
1902 420 0.001086023 420 -100%
1903 399 0.001046689 399 -100%
1904 422 0.001045888 422 -100%
1905 490 0.001155865 490 -100%
1906 542 0.001265022 542 -100%
1907 593 0.001274195 593 -100%
1908 690 0.001412048 690 -100%
1909 758 0.001482716 758 -100%
1910 986 0.001669172 6 980 -99%
1911 1295 0.002009999 7 1288 -99%
1912 2488 0.002518066 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 0.002463273 16 4749 -99%
1917 5046 0.002514507 19 5027 -99%
1918 5187 0.002389101 19 5168 -99%
1919 4761 0.00225613 24 4737 -99%
1920 4976 0.002199191 32 4944 -99%
1921 5262 0.002254012 23 5239 -99%
1922 5115 0.002234452 24 5091 -99%
1923 5147 0.002235402 26 5121 -99%
1924 5211 0.002188005 20 5191 -99%
1925 5066 0.002171154 25 5041 -99%
1926 5093 0.002218306 34 5059 -99%
1927 4949 0.002133783 31 4918 -99%
1928 4748 0.002100048 31 4717 -99%
1929 4784 0.002182313 49 4735 -98%
1930 4704 0.002115793 30 4674 -99%
1931 4346 0.002065248 39 4307 -98%
1932 4258 0.002016802 34 4224 -98%
1933 3999 0.002000092 26 3973 -99%
1934 3858 0.001857696 18 3840 -99%
1935 3933 0.001881981 24 3909 -99%
1936 3994 0.00192248 16 3978 -99%
1937 4362 0.002047288 24 4338 -99%
1938 4705 0.002126493 16 4689 -99%
1939 4636 0.002104016 27 4609 -99%
1940 4788 0.00207939 19 4769 -99%
1941 5258 0.002158155 19 5239 -99%
1942 6232 0.002281341 23 6209 -99%
1943 6224 0.002205133 22 6202 -99%
1944 5618 0.00208847 14 5604 -100%
1945 5696 0.002147126 10 5686 -100%
1946 6796 0.002126908 25 6771 -99%
1947 8037 0.002231123 23 8014 -99%
1948 7901 0.0022885 23 7878 -99%
1949 8473 0.002431477 20 8453 -100%
1950 8637 0.002465317 23 8614 -99%
1951 9875 0.002680681 32 9843 -99%
1952 11223 0.00295495 43 11180 -99%
1953 11731 0.003044159 35 11696 -99%
1954 13179 0.003310716 58 13121 -99%
1955 14232 0.003544647 57 14175 -99%
1956 15633 0.003791578 67 15566 -99%
1957 17122 0.004074248 66 17056 -99%
1958 17504 0.004235419 82 17422 -99%
1959 18043 0.00434068 82 17961 -99%
1960 19603 0.004718735 97 19506 -99%
1961 20315 0.004905907 122 20193 -99%
1962 20203 0.00500688 104 20099 -99%
1963 20351 0.005140972 111 20240 -99%
1964 20249 0.005208514 121 20128 -99%
1965 20443 0.005638476 111 20332 -99%
1966 20799 0.005984237 172 20627 -98%
1967 21038 0.006196741 157 20881 -99%
1968 20367 0.006028313 137 20230 -99%
1969 21066 0.006061031 158 20908 -98%
1970 21321 0.005911286 143 21178 -99%
1971 19364 0.005641399 137 19227 -99%
1972 17594 0.005597268 134 17460 -98%
1973 16565 0.005490333 145 16420 -98%
1974 16517 0.005432855 125 16392 -98%
1975 16628 0.005506453 137 16491 -98%
1976 16744 0.005517634 140 16604 -98%
1977 16950 0.005335721 146 16804 -98%
1978 16960 0.005343094 150 16810 -98%
1979 17675 0.005312094 154 17521 -98%
1980 17771 0.005158732 161 17610 -98%
1981 18708 0.00540758 132 18576 -99%
1982 19785 0.005639676 135 19650 -99%
1983 19998 0.005774028 164 19834 -98%
1984 21119 0.006053482 158 20961 -99%
1985 22290 0.006245422 199 22091 -98%
1986 22154 0.006228368 198 21956 -98%
1987 23338 0.006472998 213 23125 -98%
1988 23819 0.006446699 178 23641 -99%
1989 24548 0.006385553 124 24424 -99%
1990 25184 0.006372299 100 25084 -99%
1991 24530 0.006297837 87 24443 -99%
1992 23252 0.006053688 81 23171 -99%
1993 21881 0.005804005 94 21787 -99%
1994 21690 0.005834792 90 21600 -99%
1995 20568 0.005616776 87 20481 -99%
1996 20571 0.005640653 67 20504 -99%
1997 20072 0.005536297 41 20031 -100%
1998 19685 0.005352121 51 19634 -99%
1999 19525 0.005286146 55 19470 -99%
2000 19706 0.005213754 52 19654 -99%
2001 19776 0.00528333 40 19736 -100%
2002 19635 0.005253098 45 19590 -100%
2003 20187 0.005309909 38 20149 -100%
2004 19668 0.005148207 56 19612 -99%
2005 19410 0.005049208 27 19383 -100%
2006 19437 0.004914145 26 19411 -100%
2007 19663 0.004919873 30 19633 -100%
2008 18437 0.004692032 28 18409 -100%
2009 16347 0.004280638 26 16321 -100%
2010 15530 0.004203628 27 15503 -100%
2011 14307 0.003912963 24 14283 -100%
2012 13230 0.003618993 15 13215 -100%
2013 12302 0.003376283 15 12287 -100%
2014 11615 0.003135642 18 11597 -100%
2015 10663 0.002883148 13 10650 -100%
2016 9898 0.002700048 11 9887 -100%
2017 8869 0.002482396 8 8861 -100%
2018 8040 0.002289457 5 8035 -100%
2019 7712 0.002225158 5 7707 -100%
2020 7023 0.002106491 9 7014 -100%
2021 6780 0.002006087 5 6775 -100%
2022 6561 0.001951577 7 6554 -100%