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How popular is “Bain” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bain” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bain” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bain” 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
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 -100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 -100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 -100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2012 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2013 25 0.000006857 25 -100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 -100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 -100%
2016 18 0.000004906 18 -100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 -100%
2018 15 0.000004266 15 -100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 -100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 -100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 -100%
2023 10 0.00000302 10 -100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 -100%

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