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How popular is “Banks” in the USA?

Number of people named “Banks” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Banks” by birth year

This chart shows how “Banks” 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
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 -100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1913 9 0.000007915 9 -100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 -100%
1917 11 0.000005482 11 -100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 -100%
1919 18 0.00000853 18 -100%
1920 22 0.000009723 22 -100%
1921 13 0.000005569 13 -100%
1922 22 0.000009611 22 -100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 -100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 -100%
1925 13 0.000005572 13 -100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 -100%
1927 16 0.000006898 16 -100%
1928 15 0.000006634 15 -100%
1929 13 0.00000593 13 -100%
1930 10 0.000004498 10 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 10 0.000004736 10 -100%
1933 7 0.000003501 7 -100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 -100%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 -100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 8 0.000003283 8 -100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 -100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 -100%
2000 16 0.000004233 16 -100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 -100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 -100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 -100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2005 26 0.000006762 26 -100%
2006 35 0.000008847 35 -100%
2007 18 0.000004503 18 -100%
2008 26 0.000006615 26 -100%
2009 45 0.00001178 45 -100%
2010 49 0.000013259 49 -100%
2011 55 0.000015036 55 -100%
2012 71 0.000019413 71 -100%
2013 56 0.000015361 56 -100%
2014 92 0.000024822 92 -100%
2015 106 0.000028642 106 -100%
2016 126 0.000034345 126 -100%
2017 113 0.000031598 113 -100%
2018 162 0.000046076 6 156 -93%
2019 262 0.000075484 22 240 -83%
2020 372 0.000111358 50 322 -73%
2021 664 0.000195989 82 582 -75%
2022 872 0.000257749 85 787 -81%
2023 1020 0.000308046 79 941 -85%
2024 993 0.000298332 94 899 -81%

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