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How popular is “Beau” in the USA?

Number of people named “Beau” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Beau” by birth year

This chart shows how “Beau” 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
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 12 0.000004925 12 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 -100%
1953 20 0.00000519 20 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 20 0.000004981 20 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1958 15 0.000003629 15 -100%
1959 22 0.000005291 22 -100%
1960 15 0.000003611 15 -100%
1961 39 0.000009415 39 -100%
1962 44 0.000010904 44 -100%
1963 36 0.000009095 36 -100%
1964 41 0.000010546 41 -100%
1965 47 0.000012964 47 -100%
1966 52 0.000014961 52 -100%
1967 56 0.000016495 56 -100%
1968 53 0.000015688 53 -100%
1969 89 0.000025609 89 -100%
1970 167 0.000046305 167 -100%
1971 175 0.000050985 175 -100%
1972 155 0.000049316 155 -100%
1973 186 0.000061653 186 -100%
1974 207 0.000068092 207 -100%
1975 251 0.000083129 251 -100%
1976 373 0.000122928 373 -100%
1977 494 0.000155517 5 489 -98%
1978 478 0.000150605 478 -100%
1979 673 0.000202284 7 666 -98%
1980 1230 0.00035709 23 1207 -96%
1981 1039 0.000300343 12 1027 -98%
1982 687 0.00019584 10 677 -97%
1983 566 0.000163426 8 558 -97%
1984 704 0.000201791 6 698 -98%
1985 667 0.000186881 6 661 -98%
1986 672 0.000188919 8 664 -98%
1987 519 0.000143942 5 514 -98%
1988 594 0.000160756 594 -100%
1989 582 0.000151387 8 574 -97%
1990 737 0.000186465 5 732 -99%
1991 699 0.000179449 6 693 -98%
1992 590 0.000153595 5 585 -98%
1993 535 0.000141899 535 -100%
1994 592 0.00015924 5 587 -98%
1995 526 0.000143631 6 520 -98%
1996 528 0.000144769 528 -100%
1997 469 0.000129353 469 -100%
1998 498 0.000135392 498 -100%
1999 476 0.000128862 7 469 -97%
2000 507 0.00013413 507 -100%
2001 459 0.000122616 6 453 -97%
2002 458 0.000122516 6 452 -97%
2003 629 0.000165425 17 612 -95%
2004 665 0.000174042 16 649 -95%
2005 658 0.000171138 13 645 -96%
2006 645 0.000163036 21 624 -93%
2007 711 0.000177853 20 691 -94%
2008 764 0.000194369 15 749 -96%
2009 764 0.000199991 13 751 -97%
2010 789 0.000213489 23 766 -94%
2011 879 0.000240309 27 852 -94%
2012 1108 0.00030295 39 1069 -93%
2013 1345 0.000368931 45 1300 -93%
2014 1679 0.000453003 45 1634 -95%
2015 2024 0.000546892 44 1980 -96%
2016 2165 0.000590128 41 2124 -96%
2017 2562 0.000716404 51 2511 -96%
2018 2646 0.000752582 49 2597 -96%
2019 2978 0.000857983 46 2932 -97%
2020 3393 0.001015693 49 3344 -97%
2021 3872 0.001142874 57 3815 -97%
2022 4014 0.001186474 59 3955 -97%
2023 4150 0.001253324 52 4098 -97%
2024 4759 0.001429773 65 4694 -97%

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