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How popular is “Arlene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Arlene” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Arlene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Arlene” 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
1888 9 0.000030053 9 100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1890 11 0.000036496 11 100%
1891 13 0.000045348 13 100%
1892 19 0.000056823 19 100%
1893 17 0.000052272 17 100%
1894 19 0.000056098 19 100%
1895 23 0.000065523 23 100%
1896 33 0.000092312 33 100%
1897 28 0.000080702 28 100%
1898 30 0.000078646 30 100%
1899 33 0.000097278 33 100%
1900 47 0.000104385 47 100%
1901 38 0.000109886 38 100%
1902 47 0.000121531 47 100%
1903 67 0.000175761 67 100%
1904 59 0.000146226 59 100%
1905 77 0.000181637 77 100%
1906 107 0.000249737 107 100%
1907 101 0.000217022 101 100%
1908 143 0.000292644 143 100%
1909 160 0.000312974 160 100%
1910 207 0.000350425 207 100%
1911 226 0.00035078 226 100%
1912 325 0.000328927 325 100%
1913 471 0.000414208 471 100%
1914 608 0.000429274 608 100%
1915 864 0.000471506 864 100%
1916 1110 0.000573816 1105 5 99%
1917 1208 0.000601968 1208 100%
1918 1340 0.000617196 1340 100%
1919 1427 0.000676225 1427 100%
1920 1599 0.000706696 1594 5 99%
1921 1837 0.000786891 1837 100%
1922 1890 0.000825632 1884 6 99%
1923 2096 0.000910322 2090 6 99%
1924 2277 0.000956076 2277 100%
1925 2280 0.000977156 2275 5 100%
1926 2531 0.001102398 2522 9 99%
1927 2570 0.001108065 2563 7 99%
1928 2531 0.001119447 2521 10 99%
1929 2406 0.001097547 2398 8 99%
1930 2522 0.001134356 2509 13 99%
1931 3228 0.001533938 3217 11 99%
1932 3124 0.001479663 3109 15 99%
1933 3195 0.001597942 3185 10 99%
1934 3930 0.00189232 3917 13 99%
1935 3692 0.001766592 3684 8 100%
1936 3913 0.001883443 3898 15 99%
1937 3829 0.001797087 3806 23 99%
1938 3913 0.001768528 3893 20 99%
1939 3598 0.0016329 3578 20 99%
1940 3272 0.00142095 3257 15 99%
1941 3297 0.001353212 3291 6 100%
1942 3348 0.001225558 3331 17 99%
1943 3152 0.001116717 3145 7 100%
1944 2727 0.001013725 2714 13 99%
1945 2778 0.001047152 2771 7 99%
1946 2808 0.000878789 2801 7 100%
1947 2912 0.000808368 2907 5 100%
1948 2485 0.000719765 2480 5 100%
1949 2395 0.000687275 2395 100%
1950 2395 0.00068363 2390 5 100%
1951 2502 0.000679201 2502 100%
1952 2335 0.000614796 2330 5 100%
1953 2311 0.000599692 2305 6 99%
1954 2080 0.00052252 2075 5 100%
1955 1987 0.000494884 1982 5 99%
1956 1807 0.000438269 1807 100%
1957 1699 0.000404318 1693 6 99%
1958 1778 0.000430102 1778 100%
1959 1791 0.000430737 1791 100%
1960 1632 0.000392892 1624 8 99%
1961 1560 0.000376602 1554 6 99%
1962 1341 0.000332311 1341 100%
1963 1301 0.000328685 1295 6 99%
1964 1224 0.000314847 1224 100%
1965 1053 0.000290447 1053 100%
1966 911 0.000262109 911 100%
1967 778 0.000229167 773 5 99%
1968 719 0.000212822 719 100%
1969 738 0.000212354 738 100%
1970 718 0.000199084 718 100%
1971 605 0.000176264 605 100%
1972 500 0.000159084 500 100%
1973 501 0.000166065 501 100%
1974 435 0.000143092 435 100%
1975 408 0.000135126 408 100%
1976 416 0.000137099 416 100%
1977 391 0.000123092 391 100%
1978 355 0.000111851 355 100%
1979 325 0.000097686 325 100%
1980 371 0.000107708 371 100%
1981 413 0.000119386 413 100%
1982 421 0.000120013 421 100%
1983 369 0.000106545 369 100%
1984 350 0.000100322 350 100%
1985 347 0.000097223 347 100%
1986 359 0.000100926 353 6 97%
1987 364 0.000100954 364 100%
1988 341 0.000092286 341 100%
1989 348 0.00009052 341 7 96%
1990 314 0.000079444 314 100%
1991 332 0.000085232 332 100%
1992 369 0.000096062 369 100%
1993 342 0.000090709 342 100%
1994 298 0.000080158 298 100%
1995 297 0.0000811 297 100%
1996 302 0.000082803 302 100%
1997 319 0.000087982 319 100%
1998 304 0.000082649 304 100%
1999 313 0.000084735 313 100%
2000 286 0.000075663 286 100%
2001 280 0.000074799 280 100%
2002 318 0.000085066 318 100%
2003 285 0.000074954 285 100%
2004 244 0.000063859 244 100%
2005 307 0.000079847 307 100%
2006 242 0.00006117 242 100%
2007 225 0.000056283 225 100%
2008 234 0.000059532 234 100%
2009 194 0.000050783 194 100%
2010 208 0.000056281 208 100%
2011 179 0.000048937 179 100%
2012 157 0.000042927 157 100%
2013 159 0.000043613 159 100%
2014 150 0.000040471 150 100%
2015 171 0.000046205 171 100%
2016 148 0.000040341 148 100%
2017 153 0.000042783 153 100%
2018 114 0.000032424 114 100%
2019 120 0.000034573 120 100%
2020 134 0.000040113 134 100%
2021 115 0.000033944 115 100%
2022 119 0.000035174 119 100%
2023 112 0.000033825 112 100%
2024 111 0.000033348 111 100%

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