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How popular is “Babe” in the USA?

Number of people named “Babe” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Babe” by birth year

This chart shows how “Babe” 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 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 15 0.000033314 9 6 20%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1905 16 0.000037743 9 7 13%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 100%
1909 15 0.000029341 10 5 33%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 100%
1912 16 0.000016193 7 9 -13%
1913 23 0.000020227 12 11 4%
1914 14 0.000009885 8 6 14%
1915 27 0.000014735 19 8 41%
1916 18 0.000009305 11 7 22%
1917 25 0.000012458 17 8 36%
1918 20 0.000009212 12 8 20%
1919 17 0.000008056 8 9 -6%
1920 26 0.000011491 15 11 15%
1921 28 0.000011994 16 12 14%
1922 26 0.000011358 16 10 23%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 100%
1924 25 0.000010497 14 11 12%
1925 21 0.000009 11 10 5%
1926 14 0.000006098 14 -100%
1927 33 0.000014228 19 14 15%
1928 26 0.0000115 15 11 15%
1929 31 0.000014141 15 16 -3%
1930 24 0.000010795 10 14 -17%
1931 16 0.000007603 11 5 38%
1932 15 0.000007105 7 8 -7%
1933 18 0.000009002 7 11 -22%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 -100%
1935 15 0.000007177 6 9 -20%
1936 16 0.000007701 6 10 -25%
1937 11 0.000005163 6 5 9%
1938 11 0.000004972 5 6 -9%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1947 13 0.000003609 5 8 -23%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%

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