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How popular is “Bergen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bergen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bergen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bergen” 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
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 100%
1994 16 0.000004304 11 5 38%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 100%
1997 17 0.000004689 11 6 29%
1998 22 0.000005981 17 5 55%
1999 37 0.000010017 21 16 14%
2000 39 0.000010318 16 23 -18%
2001 48 0.000012823 24 24 0%
2002 33 0.000008828 14 19 -15%
2003 41 0.000010783 14 27 -32%
2004 33 0.000008637 14 19 -15%
2005 41 0.000010664 18 23 -12%
2006 37 0.000009352 13 24 -30%
2007 41 0.000010256 20 21 -2%
2008 38 0.000009668 16 22 -16%
2009 46 0.000012041 25 21 9%
2010 26 0.000007035 15 11 15%
2011 25 0.000006835 12 13 -4%
2012 28 0.000007656 17 11 21%
2013 22 0.000006035 15 7 36%
2014 25 0.000006745 12 13 -4%
2015 32 0.000008647 21 11 31%
2016 20 0.000005452 12 8 20%
2017 17 0.000004754 10 7 18%
2018 17 0.000004835 5 12 -41%
2019 19 0.000005474 12 7 26%
2020 24 0.000007184 10 14 -17%
2021 21 0.000006198 9 12 -14%
2022 17 0.000005025 8 9 -6%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 100%
2024 23 0.00000691 23 100%

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