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How popular is “Bennett” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bennett” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bennett” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bennett” 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 15 0.000074448 15 -100%
1881 14 0.000072656 14 -100%
1882 14 0.000063196 14 -100%
1883 9 0.000041485 9 -100%
1884 13 0.000053397 13 -100%
1885 14 0.000058127 14 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1887 17 0.000068717 17 -100%
1888 15 0.000050088 15 -100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 -100%
1890 17 0.000056403 17 -100%
1891 9 0.000031395 9 -100%
1892 8 0.000023925 8 -100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 -100%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 -100%
1895 9 0.00002564 9 -100%
1896 18 0.000050352 18 -100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 -100%
1898 17 0.000044566 17 -100%
1899 10 0.000029478 10 -100%
1900 16 0.000035535 16 -100%
1901 12 0.000034701 12 -100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 -100%
1903 15 0.000039349 15 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 14 0.000033025 14 -100%
1906 20 0.00004668 20 -100%
1907 23 0.000049421 23 -100%
1908 19 0.000038883 19 -100%
1909 15 0.000029341 15 -100%
1910 22 0.000037243 22 -100%
1911 25 0.000038803 25 -100%
1912 44 0.000044532 44 -100%
1913 59 0.000051886 59 -100%
1914 60 0.000042363 60 -100%
1915 93 0.000050752 93 -100%
1916 79 0.000040839 79 -100%
1917 95 0.00004734 5 90 -89%
1918 103 0.000047441 103 -100%
1919 108 0.000051179 108 -100%
1920 95 0.000041986 95 -100%
1921 85 0.00003641 85 -100%
1922 99 0.000043247 99 -100%
1923 90 0.000039088 90 -100%
1924 96 0.000040309 96 -100%
1925 118 0.000050572 118 -100%
1926 125 0.000054445 7 118 -89%
1927 107 0.000046133 107 -100%
1928 96 0.00004246 96 -100%
1929 105 0.000047898 105 -100%
1930 84 0.000037782 84 -100%
1931 94 0.000044669 94 -100%
1932 95 0.000044996 95 -100%
1933 110 0.000055015 110 -100%
1934 109 0.000052484 109 -100%
1935 66 0.00003158 66 -100%
1936 106 0.000051021 106 -100%
1937 85 0.000039894 85 -100%
1938 94 0.000042484 94 -100%
1939 105 0.000047653 105 -100%
1940 99 0.000042993 99 -100%
1941 105 0.000043096 6 99 -89%
1942 101 0.000036972 101 -100%
1943 101 0.000035783 101 -100%
1944 99 0.000036802 99 -100%
1945 105 0.000039579 105 -100%
1946 131 0.000040998 131 -100%
1947 126 0.000034977 126 -100%
1948 136 0.000039392 136 -100%
1949 140 0.000040175 140 -100%
1950 133 0.000037964 133 -100%
1951 144 0.000039091 144 -100%
1952 144 0.000037915 144 -100%
1953 144 0.000037367 144 -100%
1954 184 0.000046223 184 -100%
1955 207 0.000051556 207 -100%
1956 221 0.000053601 221 -100%
1957 237 0.0000564 6 231 -95%
1958 197 0.000047655 197 -100%
1959 235 0.000056518 235 -100%
1960 204 0.000049111 204 -100%
1961 194 0.000046834 194 -100%
1962 214 0.000053031 214 -100%
1963 225 0.000056844 225 -100%
1964 189 0.000048616 189 -100%
1965 127 0.00003503 127 -100%
1966 137 0.000039417 137 -100%
1967 115 0.000033874 115 -100%
1968 109 0.000032264 109 -100%
1969 112 0.000032227 112 -100%
1970 110 0.0000305 110 -100%
1971 85 0.000024764 85 -100%
1972 89 0.000028317 89 -100%
1973 53 0.000017568 53 -100%
1974 63 0.000020724 63 -100%
1975 75 0.000024839 75 -100%
1976 67 0.000022081 67 -100%
1977 70 0.000022037 70 -100%
1978 75 0.00002363 75 -100%
1979 110 0.000033063 110 -100%
1980 125 0.00003629 5 120 -92%
1981 117 0.000033821 117 -100%
1982 124 0.000035348 124 -100%
1983 132 0.000038114 132 -100%
1984 147 0.000042135 7 140 -90%
1985 162 0.000045389 162 -100%
1986 165 0.000046386 165 -100%
1987 161 0.000044653 161 -100%
1988 203 0.000054938 203 -100%
1989 257 0.00006685 8 249 -94%
1990 233 0.00005895 8 225 -93%
1991 238 0.0000611 7 231 -94%
1992 250 0.000065083 11 239 -91%
1993 231 0.000061269 13 218 -89%
1994 245 0.000065902 245 -100%
1995 271 0.000074 8 263 -94%
1996 335 0.000091851 13 322 -92%
1997 400 0.000110322 8 392 -96%
1998 458 0.000124517 9 449 -96%
1999 452 0.000122365 16 436 -93%
2000 554 0.000146565 12 542 -96%
2001 525 0.000140247 22 503 -92%
2002 571 0.000152744 16 555 -94%
2003 609 0.000160165 15 594 -95%
2004 669 0.000175089 23 646 -93%
2005 763 0.000198448 29 734 -92%
2006 857 0.000216623 40 817 -91%
2007 866 0.000216625 40 826 -91%
2008 909 0.000231259 46 863 -90%
2009 1093 0.000286113 45 1048 -92%
2010 1269 0.000343368 57 1212 -91%
2011 1559 0.000426213 67 1492 -91%
2012 1971 0.000538912 60 1911 -94%
2013 2139 0.000586724 64 2075 -94%
2014 2663 0.000718492 113 2550 -92%
2015 2818 0.000761434 104 2714 -93%
2016 3030 0.000825906 88 2942 -94%
2017 3286 0.000918854 106 3180 -94%
2018 3420 0.000972725 119 3301 -93%
2019 3648 0.001051014 118 3530 -94%
2020 3704 0.001108791 103 3601 -94%
2021 4072 0.001201907 134 3938 -93%
2022 4215 0.001245886 112 4103 -95%
2023 4566 0.001378958 146 4420 -94%
2024 5329 0.001601021 234 5095 -91%

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