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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Arwen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Arwen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Arwen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Arwen” 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
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 15 0.000004159 15 100%
1971 15 0.00000437 15 100%
1972 14 0.000004454 14 100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 100%
1974 19 0.00000625 19 100%
1975 25 0.00000828 25 100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 100%
1977 30 0.000009444 30 100%
1978 35 0.000011028 35 100%
1979 28 0.000008416 28 100%
1980 34 0.000009871 34 100%
1981 30 0.000008672 30 100%
1982 27 0.000007697 27 100%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 100%
1984 16 0.000004586 16 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 15 0.000004217 15 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 100%
2002 41 0.000010968 41 100%
2003 117 0.000030771 117 100%
2004 166 0.000043445 166 100%
2005 149 0.000038753 149 100%
2006 96 0.000024266 96 100%
2007 98 0.000024514 98 100%
2008 86 0.000021879 86 100%
2009 81 0.000021203 81 100%
2010 80 0.000021647 80 100%
2011 73 0.000019957 73 100%
2012 79 0.0000216 79 100%
2013 105 0.000028801 105 100%
2014 104 0.00002806 104 100%
2015 116 0.000031344 116 100%
2016 129 0.000035162 129 100%
2017 109 0.000030479 109 100%
2018 123 0.000034984 123 100%
2019 144 0.000041487 144 100%
2020 116 0.000034725 116 100%
2021 148 0.000043684 148 100%
2022 177 0.000052318 177 100%
2023 179 0.000054059 179 100%
2024 169 0.000050774 169 100%

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