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How popular is “Ashford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ashford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ashford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ashford” 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
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 -100%
1979 17 0.00000511 17 -100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 -100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 -100%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 -100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 -100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 -100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 -100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 -100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 -100%
2014 8 0.000002158 8 -100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 -100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 -100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 -100%
2018 12 0.000003413 12 -100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 -100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 -100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 -100%
2023 17 0.000005134 17 -100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

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