How popular is “Aurora” in the USA?

Number of people named “Aurora” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Aurora” by birth year

This chart shows how “Aurora” 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
1880	6	0.000029779	6		100%
1881	6	0.000031138	6		100%
1882	8	0.000036112	8		100%
1883	10	0.000046094	10		100%
1884	11	0.000045182	11		100%
1886	9	0.00003525	9		100%
1887	15	0.000060633	15		100%
1888	13	0.000043409	13		100%
1889	7	0.000024226	7		100%
1890	8	0.000026543	8		100%
1891	15	0.000052324	15		100%
1892	16	0.000047851	16		100%
1893	20	0.000061496	20		100%
1894	14	0.000041336	14		100%
1895	15	0.000042733	15		100%
1896	26	0.000072731	26		100%
1897	16	0.000046115	16		100%
1898	14	0.000036702	14		100%
1899	17	0.000050113	17		100%
1900	21	0.00004664	21		100%
1901	25	0.000072294	25		100%
1902	19	0.00004913	19		100%
1903	28	0.000073452	28		100%
1904	31	0.000076831	31		100%
1905	43	0.000101434	43		100%
1906	35	0.00008169	35		100%
1907	53	0.000113883	53		100%
1908	46	0.000094137	46		100%
1909	53	0.000103673	53		100%
1910	61	0.000103265	61		100%
1911	66	0.00010244	66		100%
1912	102	0.000103232	102		100%
1913	90	0.000079148	90		100%
1914	107	0.000075547	107		100%
1915	147	0.000080222	147		100%
1916	182	0.000094085	182		100%
1917	185	0.000092189	185		100%
1918	226	0.000104094	226		100%
1919	223	0.000105675	223		100%
1920	274	0.000121097	274		100%
1921	329	0.000140929	329		100%
1922	286	0.000124937	281	5	97%
1923	338	0.000146798	338		100%
1924	357	0.000149899	357		100%
1925	348	0.000149145	341	7	96%
1926	327	0.000142427	327		100%
1927	370	0.000159527	361	9	95%
1928	361	0.000159668	361		100%
1929	352	0.000160572	347	5	97%
1930	331	0.000148879	325	6	96%
1931	264	0.000125452	258	6	95%
1932	256	0.000121253	256		100%
1933	211	0.000105529	211		100%
1934	212	0.000102079	212		100%
1935	201	0.000096177	196	5	95%
1936	193	0.000092897	193		100%
1937	177	0.000083072	177		100%
1938	190	0.000085873	190		100%
1939	178	0.000080783	178		100%
1940	154	0.000066878	154		100%
1941	171	0.000070185	171		100%
1942	223	0.000081631	223		100%
1943	228	0.000080778	228		100%
1944	203	0.000075462	203		100%
1945	213	0.000080289	213		100%
1946	211	0.000066034	211		100%
1947	247	0.000068567	247		100%
1948	199	0.000057639	199		100%
1949	182	0.000052227	182		100%
1950	217	0.000061941	217		100%
1951	189	0.000051307	189		100%
1952	198	0.000052133	198		100%
1953	187	0.000048526	187		100%
1954	167	0.000041952	167		100%
1955	180	0.000044831	180		100%
1956	173	0.000041959	173		100%
1957	162	0.000038552	162		100%
1958	151	0.000036527	151		100%
1959	156	0.000037518	156		100%
1960	177	0.000042611	177		100%
1961	150	0.000036212	150		100%
1962	173	0.000042871	173		100%
1963	154	0.000038907	154		100%
1964	156	0.000040128	156		100%
1965	178	0.000049097	178		100%
1966	175	0.00005035	175		100%
1967	163	0.000048013	163		100%
1968	158	0.000046768	158		100%
1969	131	0.000037694	131		100%
1970	164	0.000045473	164		100%
1971	177	0.000051568	177		100%
1972	154	0.000048998	154		100%
1973	176	0.000058338	176		100%
1974	174	0.000057237	174		100%
1975	178	0.000058952	178		100%
1976	184	0.00006064	184		100%
1977	186	0.000058555	186		100%
1978	167	0.000052617	167		100%
1979	194	0.000058311	194		100%
1980	207	0.000060096	207		100%
1981	211	0.000060994	211		100%
1982	248	0.000070696	243	5	96%
1983	175	0.000050529	175		100%
1984	204	0.000058474	204		100%
1985	209	0.000058558	209		100%
1986	216	0.000060724	216		100%
1987	253	0.000070168	253		100%
1988	236	0.000063869	236		100%
1989	273	0.000071012	273		100%
1990	293	0.000074131	293		100%
1991	269	0.000069058	269		100%
1992	321	0.000083566	321		100%
1993	365	0.00009681	365		100%
1994	318	0.000085538	318		100%
1995	324	0.000088473	324		100%
1996	355	0.000097335	355		100%
1997	430	0.000118596	430		100%
1998	503	0.000136751	503		100%
1999	520	0.000140774	520		100%
2000	557	0.000147358	557		100%
2001	684	0.000182722	684		100%
2002	664	0.000177621	664		100%
2003	810	0.000213028	810		100%
2004	989	0.000258838	989		100%
2005	952	0.000247604	952		100%
2006	1069	0.00027021	1069		100%
2007	1069	0.000267405	1069		100%
2008	1174	0.000298677	1174		100%
2009	1489	0.000389773	1489		100%
2010	1530	0.00041399	1530		100%
2011	1727	0.000472143	1727		100%
2012	1905	0.000520867	1905		100%
2013	2132	0.000584804	2132		100%
2014	2751	0.000742234	2751		100%
2015	3651	0.000986514	3651		100%
2016	4005	0.001091668	4005		100%
2017	4614	0.001290198	4614		100%
2018	4833	0.001374614	4828	5	100%
2019	5009	0.001443128	5002	7	100%
2020	5258	0.00157398	5252	6	100%
2021	5532	0.001632846	5525	7	100%
2022	6004	0.001774685	5998	6	100%
2023	6085	0.001837705	6080	5	100%
2024	6924	0.002080216	6917	7	100%

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