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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Arleen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Arleen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Arleen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Arleen” 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
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 7 0.000020635 7 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 100%
1903 9 0.00002361 9 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 100%
1908 13 0.000026604 13 100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 100%
1910 14 0.0000237 14 100%
1911 24 0.000037251 24 100%
1912 26 0.000026314 26 100%
1913 24 0.000021106 24 100%
1914 44 0.000031066 44 100%
1915 70 0.000038201 70 100%
1916 73 0.000037737 73 100%
1917 76 0.000037872 76 100%
1918 91 0.000041914 91 100%
1919 94 0.000044545 94 100%
1920 134 0.000059223 134 100%
1921 131 0.000056115 131 100%
1922 152 0.0000664 152 100%
1923 176 0.000076439 176 100%
1924 178 0.000074739 178 100%
1925 185 0.000079287 185 100%
1926 161 0.000070125 161 100%
1927 191 0.00008235 191 100%
1928 159 0.000070325 159 100%
1929 143 0.000065232 143 100%
1930 144 0.000064769 144 100%
1931 99 0.000047045 99 100%
1932 104 0.000049259 104 100%
1933 88 0.000044012 88 100%
1934 88 0.000042373 88 100%
1935 93 0.0000445 93 100%
1936 98 0.00004717 98 100%
1937 98 0.000045995 98 100%
1938 310 0.000140108 310 100%
1939 415 0.000188342 415 100%
1940 268 0.000116386 268 100%
1941 316 0.000129698 316 100%
1942 304 0.000111281 298 6 96%
1943 353 0.000125064 353 100%
1944 241 0.000089588 241 100%
1945 174 0.000065588 174 100%
1946 262 0.000081995 262 100%
1947 301 0.000083557 301 100%
1948 214 0.000061984 214 100%
1949 133 0.000038166 133 100%
1950 222 0.000063368 222 100%
1951 214 0.000058093 214 100%
1952 215 0.000056609 215 100%
1953 236 0.000061241 236 100%
1954 198 0.00004974 198 100%
1955 232 0.000057782 232 100%
1956 218 0.000052874 218 100%
1957 224 0.000053306 224 100%
1958 184 0.00004451 184 100%
1959 239 0.00005748 239 100%
1960 253 0.000060908 253 100%
1961 286 0.000069044 286 100%
1962 280 0.000069386 280 100%
1963 220 0.000055581 220 100%
1964 186 0.000047844 186 100%
1965 190 0.000052407 190 100%
1966 130 0.000037403 130 100%
1967 107 0.000031518 107 100%
1968 88 0.000026048 88 100%
1969 72 0.000020717 72 100%
1970 58 0.000016082 58 100%
1971 43 0.000012528 43 100%
1972 38 0.00001209 38 100%
1973 39 0.000012927 39 100%
1974 26 0.000008553 26 100%
1975 26 0.000008611 26 100%
1976 24 0.00000791 24 100%
1977 30 0.000009444 30 100%
1978 28 0.000008822 28 100%
1979 19 0.000005711 19 100%
1980 28 0.000008129 28 100%
1981 27 0.000007805 27 100%
1982 30 0.000008552 30 100%
1983 30 0.000008662 30 100%
1984 28 0.000008026 28 100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 100%
1986 39 0.000010964 39 100%
1987 26 0.000007211 26 100%
1988 35 0.000009472 35 100%
1989 29 0.000007543 29 100%
1990 35 0.000008855 35 100%
1991 39 0.000010012 39 100%
1992 30 0.00000781 30 100%
1993 37 0.000009814 37 100%
1994 37 0.000009953 37 100%
1995 33 0.000009011 33 100%
1996 36 0.000009871 36 100%
1997 32 0.000008826 32 100%
1998 45 0.000012234 45 100%
1999 48 0.000012995 48 100%
2000 40 0.000010582 40 100%
2001 47 0.000012555 47 100%
2002 48 0.00001284 48 100%
2003 50 0.00001315 50 100%
2004 51 0.000013348 51 100%
2005 73 0.000018986 73 100%
2006 68 0.000017188 68 100%
2007 53 0.000013258 53 100%
2008 68 0.0000173 68 100%
2009 49 0.000012827 49 100%
2010 58 0.000015694 58 100%
2011 61 0.000016677 61 100%
2012 56 0.000015312 56 100%
2013 43 0.000011795 43 100%
2014 63 0.000016998 63 100%
2015 58 0.000015672 58 100%
2016 50 0.000013629 50 100%
2017 48 0.000013422 48 100%
2018 61 0.00001735 61 100%
2019 29 0.000008355 29 100%
2020 40 0.000011974 40 100%
2021 41 0.000012102 41 100%
2022 46 0.000013597 46 100%
2023 34 0.000010268 34 100%
2024 28 0.000008412 28 100%

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