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How popular is “Barrett” in the USA?

Number of people named “Barrett” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Barrett” by birth year

This chart shows how “Barrett” 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
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 -100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 -100%
1915 14 0.00000764 14 -100%
1916 9 0.000004653 9 -100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 -100%
1918 10 0.000004606 10 -100%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 -100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 -100%
1921 20 0.000008567 20 -100%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 -100%
1923 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 -100%
1925 18 0.000007714 18 -100%
1926 15 0.000006533 15 -100%
1927 13 0.000005605 13 -100%
1928 16 0.000007077 16 -100%
1929 18 0.000008211 18 -100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 -100%
1931 15 0.000007128 15 -100%
1932 22 0.00001042 22 -100%
1933 20 0.000010003 20 -100%
1934 15 0.000007223 15 -100%
1935 24 0.000011484 24 -100%
1936 19 0.000009145 19 -100%
1937 25 0.000011733 25 -100%
1938 26 0.000011751 26 -100%
1939 30 0.000013615 30 -100%
1940 37 0.000016068 37 -100%
1941 31 0.000012724 31 -100%
1942 39 0.000014276 39 -100%
1943 41 0.000014526 41 -100%
1944 40 0.000014869 40 -100%
1945 39 0.000014701 39 -100%
1946 46 0.000014396 46 -100%
1947 32 0.000008883 32 -100%
1948 32 0.000009269 32 -100%
1949 28 0.000008035 28 -100%
1950 39 0.000011132 39 -100%
1951 48 0.00001303 48 -100%
1952 43 0.000011322 43 -100%
1953 44 0.000011418 44 -100%
1954 65 0.000016329 65 -100%
1955 69 0.000017185 69 -100%
1956 60 0.000014552 60 -100%
1957 63 0.000014992 63 -100%
1958 71 0.000017175 71 -100%
1959 72 0.000017316 72 -100%
1960 75 0.000018056 75 -100%
1961 84 0.000020279 84 -100%
1962 98 0.000024285 98 -100%
1963 81 0.000020464 81 -100%
1964 89 0.000022893 89 -100%
1965 80 0.000022066 5 75 -88%
1966 78 0.000022442 78 -100%
1967 84 0.000024743 84 -100%
1968 84 0.000024864 84 -100%
1969 135 0.000038845 6 129 -91%
1970 96 0.000026619 96 -100%
1971 122 0.000035544 8 114 -87%
1972 138 0.000043907 138 -100%
1973 145 0.000048063 9 136 -88%
1974 143 0.000047039 6 137 -92%
1975 163 0.000053984 11 152 -87%
1976 156 0.000051412 156 -100%
1977 163 0.000051314 10 153 -88%
1978 156 0.000049151 9 147 -88%
1979 197 0.000059213 14 183 -86%
1980 193 0.000056031 5 188 -95%
1981 290 0.00008383 14 276 -90%
1982 238 0.000067846 8 230 -93%
1983 235 0.000067854 12 223 -90%
1984 212 0.000060767 11 201 -90%
1985 242 0.000067804 9 233 -93%
1986 222 0.000062411 10 212 -91%
1987 212 0.000058797 9 203 -92%
1988 227 0.000061434 16 211 -86%
1989 209 0.000054364 14 195 -87%
1990 220 0.000055661 7 213 -94%
1991 190 0.000048777 12 178 -87%
1992 151 0.00003931 9 142 -88%
1993 184 0.000048803 17 167 -82%
1994 163 0.000043845 11 152 -87%
1995 170 0.000046421 13 157 -85%
1996 157 0.000043047 12 145 -85%
1997 162 0.00004468 16 146 -80%
1998 159 0.000043228 21 138 -74%
1999 190 0.000051437 19 171 -80%
2000 166 0.000043916 15 151 -82%
2001 195 0.000052092 17 178 -83%
2002 201 0.000053768 28 173 -72%
2003 223 0.000058648 18 205 -84%
2004 255 0.000066738 22 233 -83%
2005 307 0.000079847 21 286 -86%
2006 295 0.000074567 22 273 -85%
2007 383 0.000095805 21 362 -89%
2008 437 0.000111177 29 408 -87%
2009 497 0.000130099 33 464 -87%
2010 503 0.000136103 35 468 -86%
2011 652 0.00017825 26 626 -92%
2012 823 0.000225025 19 804 -95%
2013 898 0.00024632 20 878 -96%
2014 980 0.000264409 21 959 -96%
2015 1167 0.000315328 25 1142 -96%
2016 1405 0.00038297 16 1389 -98%
2017 1644 0.000459706 32 1612 -96%
2018 1844 0.000524475 36 1808 -96%
2019 1894 0.000545675 31 1863 -97%
2020 2030 0.000607679 20 2010 -98%
2021 1997 0.000589442 35 1962 -96%
2022 1817 0.000537076 29 1788 -97%
2023 1816 0.000548442 30 1786 -97%
2024 2012 0.000604476 28 1984 -97%

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