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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Becker” in the USA?

Number of people named “Becker” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Becker” by birth year

This chart shows how “Becker” 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
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 -100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 -100%
2006 26 0.000006572 26 -100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 -100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 -100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 -100%
2010 26 0.000007035 26 -100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 -100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 -100%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 -100%
2014 22 0.000005936 22 -100%
2015 26 0.000007025 26 -100%
2016 25 0.000006814 25 -100%
2017 18 0.000005033 18 -100%
2018 31 0.000008817 31 -100%
2019 20 0.000005762 20 -100%
2020 22 0.000006586 22 -100%
2021 27 0.000007969 27 -100%
2022 30 0.000008868 30 -100%
2023 31 0.000009362 31 -100%
2024 23 0.00000691 23 -100%

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