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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Arbie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Arbie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Arbie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Arbie” 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
1890 8 0.000026543 8 100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1909 12 0.000023473 7 5 17%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 14 0.000012312 7 7 0%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 -100%
1915 22 0.000012006 11 11 0%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 -100%
1917 17 0.000008471 7 10 -18%
1918 22 0.000010133 9 13 -18%
1919 15 0.000007108 5 10 -33%
1920 29 0.000012817 10 19 -31%
1921 19 0.000008139 6 13 -37%
1922 26 0.000011358 6 20 -54%
1923 31 0.000013464 9 22 -42%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 -100%
1925 18 0.000007714 6 12 -33%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 15 0.000006634 5 10 -33%
1929 14 0.000006386 14 -100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1932 16 0.000007578 5 11 -38%
1933 14 0.000007002 14 -100%
1934 15 0.000007223 5 10 -33%
1935 17 0.000008134 8 9 -6%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 19 0.000008917 8 11 -16%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1940 12 0.000005211 12 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 -100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 -100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 15 0.000004072 5 10 -33%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 -100%
1955 12 0.000002989 5 7 -17%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%

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