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How popular is “Ballard” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ballard” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ballard” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ballard” 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 7 0.000036328 7 -100%
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 -100%
1892 8 0.000023925 8 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1901 7 0.000020242 7 -100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 -100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1913 19 0.000016709 19 -100%
1914 17 0.000012003 17 -100%
1915 29 0.000015826 29 -100%
1916 33 0.000017059 33 -100%
1917 23 0.000011461 23 -100%
1918 33 0.0000152 33 -100%
1919 23 0.000010899 23 -100%
1920 26 0.000011491 26 -100%
1921 37 0.000015849 37 -100%
1922 40 0.000017474 40 -100%
1923 23 0.000009989 23 -100%
1924 17 0.000007138 17 -100%
1925 13 0.000005572 13 -100%
1926 21 0.000009147 21 -100%
1927 24 0.000010348 24 -100%
1928 32 0.000014153 32 -100%
1929 24 0.000010948 24 -100%
1930 25 0.000011245 25 -100%
1931 16 0.000007603 16 -100%
1932 26 0.000012315 26 -100%
1933 23 0.000011503 23 -100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 -100%
1935 19 0.000009091 19 -100%
1936 22 0.000010589 22 -100%
1937 25 0.000011733 25 -100%
1938 17 0.000007683 17 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 22 0.000009554 22 -100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 -100%
1942 17 0.000006223 17 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 -100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 -100%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 -100%
1947 17 0.000004719 17 -100%
1948 14 0.000004055 14 -100%
1949 18 0.000005165 18 -100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 -100%
1951 21 0.000005701 21 -100%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 -100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 -100%
1957 15 0.00000357 15 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1960 16 0.000003852 16 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1997 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%

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