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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Bedford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bedford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bedford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bedford” 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
1880 7 0.000034742 7 -100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 8 0.000036112 8 -100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1913 16 0.000014071 16 -100%
1914 27 0.000019063 27 -100%
1915 29 0.000015826 29 -100%
1916 17 0.000008788 17 -100%
1917 23 0.000011461 23 -100%
1918 28 0.000012897 28 -100%
1919 25 0.000011847 25 -100%
1920 30 0.000013259 30 -100%
1921 30 0.000012851 30 -100%
1922 28 0.000012232 28 -100%
1923 27 0.000011726 27 -100%
1924 41 0.000017215 41 -100%
1925 30 0.000012857 30 -100%
1926 23 0.000010018 23 -100%
1927 26 0.00001121 26 -100%
1928 33 0.000014596 33 -100%
1929 37 0.000016878 37 -100%
1930 24 0.000010795 24 -100%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 -100%
1932 23 0.000010894 23 -100%
1933 24 0.000012003 24 -100%
1934 26 0.000012519 26 -100%
1935 23 0.000011005 23 -100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 -100%
1937 18 0.000008448 18 -100%
1938 14 0.000006327 14 -100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 -100%
1940 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1941 20 0.000008209 20 -100%
1942 21 0.000007687 21 -100%
1943 17 0.000006023 17 -100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 -100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 -100%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 -100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 -100%
1948 14 0.000004055 14 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 -100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 -100%
1952 16 0.000004213 16 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 21 0.000005275 21 -100%
1955 20 0.000004981 20 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%

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