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How popular is “Baker” in the USA?

Number of people named “Baker” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Baker” by birth year

This chart shows how “Baker” 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 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1914 11 0.000007766 11 -100%
1915 17 0.000009277 17 -100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1917 13 0.000006478 13 -100%
1918 16 0.000007369 16 -100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 -100%
1920 16 0.000007071 16 -100%
1921 13 0.000005569 13 -100%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 -100%
1925 15 0.000006429 15 -100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1932 12 0.000005684 12 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1934 8 0.000003852 8 -100%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1940 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 -100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 -100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 10 0.000002866 10 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 -100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 -100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 -100%
1991 20 0.000005134 20 -100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 -100%
1993 26 0.000006896 26 -100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 -100%
1995 20 0.000005461 20 -100%
1996 27 0.000007403 27 -100%
1997 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1998 24 0.000006525 24 -100%
1999 27 0.000007309 27 -100%
2000 25 0.000006614 25 -100%
2001 26 0.000006946 26 -100%
2002 32 0.00000856 32 -100%
2003 35 0.000009205 35 -100%
2004 30 0.000007852 30 -100%
2005 49 0.000012744 49 -100%
2006 35 0.000008847 35 -100%
2007 73 0.000018261 5 68 -86%
2008 60 0.000015265 8 52 -73%
2009 68 0.0000178 5 63 -85%
2010 49 0.000013259 49 -100%
2011 62 0.00001695 10 52 -68%
2012 59 0.000016132 6 53 -80%
2013 66 0.000018104 66 -100%
2014 75 0.000020235 7 68 -81%
2015 97 0.00002621 10 87 -79%
2016 175 0.000047701 19 156 -78%
2017 189 0.000052849 24 165 -75%
2018 376 0.000106943 36 340 -81%
2019 668 0.000192455 48 620 -86%
2020 619 0.000185297 75 544 -76%
2021 785 0.000231704 104 681 -74%
2022 806 0.000238241 94 712 -77%
2023 882 0.000266369 84 798 -81%
2024 1177 0.000353613 88 1089 -85%

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