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How popular is “Bee” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bee” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bee” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bee” 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
1881 10 0.000051897 10 -100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1883 13 0.000059923 6 7 -8%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 20 0.000066784 10 10 0%
1889 11 0.000038069 11 -100%
1890 15 0.000049768 7 8 -7%
1891 11 0.000038371 11 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 -100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 -100%
1895 14 0.000039884 7 7 0%
1896 18 0.000050352 9 9 0%
1897 14 0.000040351 6 8 -14%
1898 14 0.000036702 5 9 -29%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 100%
1900 23 0.000051082 13 10 13%
1901 18 0.000052051 10 8 11%
1902 12 0.000031029 12 100%
1903 17 0.000044596 9 8 6%
1904 22 0.000054525 9 13 -18%
1905 13 0.000030666 7 6 8%
1906 15 0.00003501 8 7 7%
1907 23 0.000049421 10 13 -13%
1908 25 0.000051161 13 12 4%
1909 13 0.000025429 8 5 23%
1910 20 0.000033858 12 8 20%
1911 25 0.000038803 13 12 4%
1912 27 0.000027326 17 10 26%
1913 27 0.000023744 12 15 -11%
1914 25 0.000017651 16 9 28%
1915 35 0.0000191 21 14 20%
1916 41 0.000021195 23 18 12%
1917 46 0.000022923 27 19 17%
1918 41 0.000018884 21 20 2%
1919 37 0.000017534 19 18 3%
1920 30 0.000013259 14 16 -7%
1921 18 0.00000771 5 13 -44%
1922 17 0.000007426 12 5 41%
1923 23 0.000009989 9 14 -22%
1924 25 0.000010497 12 13 -4%
1925 20 0.000008572 11 9 10%
1926 24 0.000010453 11 13 -8%
1927 16 0.000006898 9 7 13%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 100%
1932 11 0.00000521 6 5 9%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 100%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1941 8 0.000003283 8 100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 -100%
1980 39 0.000011322 5 34 -74%
1981 46 0.000013297 9 37 -61%
1982 31 0.000008837 31 -100%
1983 32 0.00000924 10 22 -38%
1984 31 0.000008886 6 25 -61%
1985 30 0.000008405 7 23 -53%
1986 26 0.000007309 26 -100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 -100%
1988 26 0.000007036 6 20 -54%
1989 37 0.000009624 9 28 -51%
1990 48 0.000012144 10 38 -58%
1991 48 0.000012323 7 41 -71%
1992 36 0.000009372 8 28 -56%
1993 45 0.000011935 10 35 -56%
1994 30 0.00000807 7 23 -53%
1995 35 0.000009557 9 26 -49%
1996 26 0.000007129 8 18 -38%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 100%
2022 13 0.000003843 13 100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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