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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Arnold” in the USA?

Number of people named “Arnold” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Arnold” by birth year

This chart shows how “Arnold” 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 37 0.000183637 37 -100%
1881 29 0.000150502 29 -100%
1882 42 0.000189588 42 -100%
1883 42 0.000193597 42 -100%
1884 49 0.000201264 49 -100%
1885 33 0.000137012 33 -100%
1886 41 0.000160585 41 -100%
1887 38 0.000153602 38 -100%
1888 51 0.000170299 51 -100%
1889 42 0.000145356 42 -100%
1890 52 0.000172528 52 -100%
1891 57 0.000198833 57 -100%
1892 80 0.000239253 80 -100%
1893 80 0.000245985 80 -100%
1894 79 0.000233252 79 -100%
1895 96 0.000273489 96 -100%
1896 102 0.000285327 102 -100%
1897 103 0.000296867 103 -100%
1898 112 0.000293613 112 -100%
1899 98 0.000288886 98 -100%
1900 122 0.000270956 122 -100%
1901 110 0.000318092 110 -100%
1902 107 0.000276677 107 -100%
1903 134 0.000351522 134 -100%
1904 149 0.000369283 149 -100%
1905 144 0.000339685 144 -100%
1906 164 0.000382774 164 -100%
1907 177 0.000380326 177 -100%
1908 202 0.000413385 202 -100%
1909 237 0.000463593 237 -100%
1910 258 0.000436762 258 -100%
1911 348 0.00054014 348 -100%
1912 774 0.000783352 7 767 -98%
1913 1039 0.00091372 7 1032 -99%
1914 1186 0.000837367 12 1174 -98%
1915 1702 0.000928823 11 1691 -99%
1916 1869 0.000966183 11 1858 -99%
1917 1793 0.000893485 12 1781 -99%
1918 1927 0.000887564 17 1910 -98%
1919 1777 0.000842082 10 1767 -99%
1920 1920 0.000848565 9 1911 -99%
1921 2003 0.000857998 21 1982 -98%
1922 1910 0.000834369 18 1892 -98%
1923 1938 0.000841701 11 1927 -99%
1924 2031 0.000852784 17 2014 -98%
1925 1986 0.000851154 14 1972 -99%
1926 1900 0.00082756 18 1882 -98%
1927 2016 0.000869206 18 1998 -98%
1928 1989 0.000879723 15 1974 -98%
1929 2000 0.000912342 21 1979 -98%
1930 1959 0.000881127 11 1948 -99%
1931 1852 0.000880066 17 1835 -98%
1932 1834 0.000868663 14 1820 -98%
1933 1767 0.000883744 18 1749 -98%
1934 1790 0.000861896 10 1780 -99%
1935 1890 0.000904349 7 1883 -99%
1936 1721 0.000828368 10 1711 -99%
1937 1740 0.000816645 14 1726 -98%
1938 1819 0.000822119 1819 -100%
1939 1623 0.000736575 6 1617 -99%
1940 1593 0.000691801 12 1581 -98%
1941 1606 0.000659163 6 1600 -99%
1942 1695 0.000620466 10 1685 -99%
1943 1705 0.000604062 1705 -100%
1944 1468 0.000545709 7 1461 -99%
1945 1412 0.000532246 5 1407 -99%
1946 1582 0.000495101 10 1572 -99%
1947 1802 0.000500233 6 1796 -99%
1948 1646 0.000476753 5 1641 -99%
1949 1597 0.000458279 7 1590 -99%
1950 1513 0.000431871 5 1508 -99%
1951 1428 0.00038765 1428 -100%
1952 1471 0.000387309 8 1463 -99%
1953 1399 0.000363033 8 1391 -99%
1954 1292 0.000324565 10 1282 -98%
1955 1322 0.000329259 7 1315 -99%
1956 1227 0.000297596 11 1216 -98%
1957 1265 0.000301037 1265 -100%
1958 1135 0.000274559 1135 -100%
1959 1200 0.000288601 8 1192 -99%
1960 1210 0.000291298 9 1201 -99%
1961 1162 0.00028052 10 1152 -98%
1962 1153 0.000285723 1153 -100%
1963 1150 0.000290536 8 1142 -99%
1964 1049 0.000269832 7 1042 -99%
1965 950 0.000262037 5 945 -99%
1966 822 0.000236502 7 815 -98%
1967 781 0.000230051 781 -100%
1968 658 0.000194766 658 -100%
1969 613 0.000176386 5 608 -98%
1970 574 0.000159156 5 569 -98%
1971 498 0.00014509 498 -100%
1972 472 0.000150175 472 -100%
1973 395 0.00013093 7 388 -96%
1974 332 0.000109211 332 -100%
1975 320 0.000105982 320 -100%
1976 301 0.000099199 301 -100%
1977 286 0.000090036 6 280 -96%
1978 250 0.000078768 250 -100%
1979 277 0.000083258 277 -100%
1980 276 0.000080128 276 -100%
1981 259 0.000074869 259 -100%
1982 267 0.000076113 267 -100%
1983 257 0.000074206 257 -100%
1984 256 0.000073379 256 -100%
1985 193 0.000054075 193 -100%
1986 242 0.000068033 242 -100%
1987 270 0.000074883 270 -100%
1988 271 0.000073341 271 -100%
1989 287 0.000074653 287 -100%
1990 327 0.000082733 327 -100%
1991 323 0.000082921 323 -100%
1992 311 0.000080963 311 -100%
1993 327 0.000086731 327 -100%
1994 265 0.000071282 265 -100%
1995 236 0.000064443 236 -100%
1996 239 0.00006553 239 -100%
1997 245 0.000067572 245 -100%
1998 234 0.000063618 234 -100%
1999 188 0.000050895 188 -100%
2000 218 0.000057673 218 -100%
2001 219 0.000058503 219 -100%
2002 180 0.00004815 180 -100%
2003 213 0.000056018 213 -100%
2004 191 0.000049988 191 -100%
2005 152 0.000039533 152 -100%
2006 133 0.000033618 133 -100%
2007 137 0.00003427 137 -100%
2008 127 0.00003231 127 -100%
2009 125 0.000032721 125 -100%
2010 90 0.000024352 90 -100%
2011 113 0.000030893 113 -100%
2012 88 0.000024061 88 -100%
2013 96 0.000026333 96 -100%
2014 81 0.000021854 81 -100%
2015 95 0.000025669 95 -100%
2016 98 0.000026712 98 -100%
2017 120 0.000033555 120 -100%
2018 103 0.000029296 103 -100%
2019 115 0.000033132 115 -100%
2020 88 0.000026343 88 -100%
2021 112 0.000033058 112 -100%
2022 118 0.000034879 118 -100%
2023 105 0.000031711 105 -100%
2024 99 0.000029743 99 -100%

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