Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Barnaby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Barnaby” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Barnaby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Barnaby” 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
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 -100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 -100%
1974 19 0.00000625 19 -100%
1975 14 0.000004637 14 -100%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 -100%
1977 16 0.000005037 16 -100%
1978 11 0.000003466 11 -100%
1979 18 0.00000541 18 -100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 -100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 -100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 -100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 -100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 -100%

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