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How popular is “Ashland” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ashland” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ashland” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ashland” 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
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1985 10 0.000002802 5 5 0%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 100%
1989 21 0.000005462 16 5 52%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 100%
1991 16 0.000004108 16 100%
1992 29 0.00000755 22 7 52%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 100%
1994 25 0.000006725 17 8 36%
1995 21 0.000005734 21 100%
1996 35 0.000009596 29 6 66%
1997 29 0.000007998 24 5 66%
1998 27 0.000007341 22 5 63%
1999 26 0.000007039 26 100%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 100%
2001 27 0.000007213 27 100%
2002 19 0.000005083 19 100%
2003 25 0.000006575 25 100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 100%
2005 33 0.000008583 25 8 52%
2006 39 0.000009858 29 10 49%
2007 35 0.000008755 29 6 66%
2008 26 0.000006615 17 9 31%
2009 23 0.000006021 16 7 39%
2010 28 0.000007576 22 6 57%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 100%
2012 20 0.000005468 14 6 40%
2013 26 0.000007132 17 9 31%
2014 24 0.000006475 16 8 33%
2015 34 0.000009187 23 11 35%
2016 20 0.000005452 15 5 50%
2017 13 0.000003635 7 6 8%
2018 20 0.000005688 10 10 0%
2019 20 0.000005762 15 5 50%
2020 12 0.000003592 6 6 0%
2021 14 0.000004132 8 6 14%
2023 15 0.00000453 8 7 7%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 100%

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