How popular is “Aspen” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Aspen” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Aspen” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1973	8	0.000002652	8		100%
1974	6	0.000001974	6		100%
1975	18	0.000005961	18		100%
1976	24	0.00000791	24		100%
1977	24	0.000007555	24		100%
1978	20	0.000006301	20		100%
1979	35	0.00001052	35		100%
1980	25	0.000007258	25		100%
1981	40	0.000011563	40		100%
1982	63	0.000017959	63		100%
1983	56	0.000016169	56		100%
1984	47	0.000013472	47		100%
1985	43	0.000012048	43		100%
1986	43	0.000012089	43		100%
1987	47	0.000013035	47		100%
1988	43	0.000011637	43		100%
1989	60	0.000015607	60		100%
1990	75	0.000018975	67	8	79%
1991	114	0.000029266	102	12	79%
1992	137	0.000035665	128	9	87%
1993	223	0.000059147	187	36	68%
1994	327	0.000087959	294	33	80%
1995	372	0.00010158	322	50	73%
1996	395	0.000108302	357	38	81%
1997	440	0.000121354	396	44	80%
1998	445	0.000120983	409	36	84%
1999	512	0.000138608	473	39	85%
2000	500	0.000132278	455	45	82%
2001	503	0.00013437	468	35	86%
2002	520	0.000139101	483	37	86%
2003	529	0.000139126	494	35	87%
2004	564	0.000147608	517	47	83%
2005	571	0.000148511	525	46	84%
2006	563	0.000142309	511	52	82%
2007	544	0.000136079	494	50	82%
2008	480	0.000122117	430	50	79%
2009	566	0.000148161	511	55	81%
2010	544	0.000147197	488	56	79%
2011	618	0.000168954	561	57	82%
2012	662	0.000181005	603	59	82%
2013	681	0.000186797	617	64	81%
2014	920	0.000248221	825	95	79%
2015	967	0.000261287	879	88	82%
2016	1001	0.000272849	905	96	81%
2017	1124	0.000314301	999	125	78%
2018	1393	0.0003962	1228	165	76%
2019	1445	0.000416315	1285	160	78%
2020	1479	0.000442738	1310	169	77%
2021	1704	0.000502959	1502	202	76%
2022	1734	0.000512542	1518	216	75%
2023	1604	0.000484417	1393	211	74%
2024	1431	0.000429923	1198	233	67%

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