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How popular is “Ashton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ashton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ashton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ashton” 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
1881 6 0.000031138 6 -100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 -100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 -100%
1912 14 0.000014169 14 -100%
1913 15 0.000013191 15 -100%
1914 23 0.000016239 23 -100%
1915 30 0.000016372 30 -100%
1916 24 0.000012407 24 -100%
1917 26 0.000012956 26 -100%
1918 33 0.0000152 33 -100%
1919 21 0.000009951 21 -100%
1920 29 0.000012817 29 -100%
1921 22 0.000009424 22 -100%
1922 30 0.000013105 30 -100%
1923 36 0.000015635 36 -100%
1924 24 0.000010077 24 -100%
1925 25 0.000010714 25 -100%
1926 17 0.000007404 17 -100%
1927 23 0.000009917 23 -100%
1928 21 0.000009288 21 -100%
1929 21 0.00000958 21 -100%
1930 21 0.000009445 21 -100%
1931 24 0.000011405 24 -100%
1932 23 0.000010894 23 -100%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 -100%
1934 22 0.000010593 22 -100%
1935 18 0.000008613 18 -100%
1936 15 0.00000722 15 -100%
1937 19 0.000008917 19 -100%
1938 15 0.000006779 15 -100%
1939 18 0.000008169 18 -100%
1940 18 0.000007817 18 -100%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 -100%
1942 20 0.000007321 20 -100%
1943 15 0.000005314 15 -100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 -100%
1945 19 0.000007162 19 -100%
1946 17 0.00000532 17 -100%
1947 21 0.00000583 21 -100%
1948 15 0.000004345 15 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1951 14 0.0000038 14 -100%
1952 23 0.000006056 23 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1954 23 0.000005778 23 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 -100%
1957 20 0.000004759 20 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 16 0.000003848 16 -100%
1960 14 0.00000337 14 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 13 0.000003222 13 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 22 0.000005659 22 -100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 -100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 -100%
1967 14 0.000004124 14 -100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 -100%
1969 23 0.000006618 23 -100%
1970 25 0.000006932 25 -100%
1971 31 0.000009032 31 -100%
1972 19 0.000006045 19 -100%
1973 23 0.000007624 23 -100%
1974 31 0.000010197 31 -100%
1975 31 0.000010267 31 -100%
1976 34 0.000011205 7 27 -59%
1977 37 0.000011648 37 -100%
1978 36 0.000011343 36 -100%
1979 70 0.00002104 7 63 -80%
1980 68 0.000019742 5 63 -85%
1981 89 0.000025727 11 78 -75%
1982 119 0.000033923 20 99 -66%
1983 157 0.000045332 36 121 -54%
1984 223 0.00006392 41 182 -63%
1985 358 0.000100305 129 229 -28%
1986 1214 0.000341291 954 260 57%
1987 1044 0.000289548 758 286 45%
1988 938 0.000253854 629 309 34%
1989 1560 0.00040578 1027 533 32%
1990 1469 0.000371666 832 637 13%
1991 1387 0.000356073 718 669 4%
1992 1307 0.000340252 724 583 11%
1993 1506 0.00039944 792 714 5%
1994 1652 0.000444366 970 682 17%
1995 1739 0.000474857 931 808 7%
1996 1695 0.000464741 895 800 6%
1997 1942 0.000535613 978 964 1%
1998 1973 0.000536403 945 1028 -4%
1999 1969 0.000533046 904 1065 -8%
2000 2183 0.000577528 868 1315 -20%
2001 2421 0.00064674 823 1598 -32%
2002 2635 0.000704868 782 1853 -41%
2003 4846 0.001274485 631 4215 -74%
2004 5847 0.001530259 411 5436 -86%
2005 4403 0.00114517 334 4069 -85%
2006 3745 0.000946618 249 3496 -87%
2007 3611 0.000903273 231 3380 -87%
2008 3746 0.000953019 229 3517 -88%
2009 3791 0.000992363 223 3568 -88%
2010 3416 0.000924308 181 3235 -89%
2011 3782 0.001033957 234 3548 -88%
2012 2986 0.000816434 173 2813 -88%
2013 2809 0.000770504 189 2620 -87%
2014 2986 0.000805639 167 2819 -89%
2015 3215 0.000868705 192 3023 -88%
2016 3299 0.000899229 197 3102 -88%
2017 3148 0.000880265 193 2955 -88%
2018 3226 0.000917547 173 3053 -89%
2019 3187 0.000918197 141 3046 -91%
2020 2864 0.000857337 152 2712 -89%
2021 2681 0.000791334 137 2544 -90%
2022 2729 0.000806648 120 2609 -91%
2023 2458 0.00074233 117 2341 -90%
2024 2090 0.00062791 114 1976 -89%

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