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How popular is “Atlanta” in the USA?

Number of people named “Atlanta” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Atlanta” by birth year

This chart shows how “Atlanta” 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
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 15 0.00000416 15 100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1990 16 0.000004048 16 100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 100%
1993 23 0.0000061 23 100%
1994 20 0.00000538 20 100%
1995 37 0.000010103 37 100%
1996 33 0.000009048 33 100%
1997 24 0.000006619 24 100%
1998 24 0.000006525 24 100%
1999 29 0.000007851 29 100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 100%
2001 27 0.000007213 27 100%
2002 20 0.00000535 20 100%
2003 26 0.000006838 26 100%
2004 24 0.000006281 24 100%
2005 24 0.000006242 24 100%
2006 23 0.000005814 23 100%
2007 20 0.000005003 20 100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 100%

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