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How popular is “Beryl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Beryl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Beryl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Beryl” 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 11 0.000054595 11 100%
1881 8 0.000041518 8 100%
1882 11 0.000049654 11 100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 100%
1884 14 0.000057504 14 100%
1885 12 0.000049823 12 100%
1886 16 0.000062667 16 100%
1887 27 0.000109139 27 100%
1888 19 0.000063445 19 100%
1889 37 0.000128052 37 100%
1890 37 0.00012276 32 5 73%
1891 36 0.000125579 36 100%
1892 43 0.000128599 37 6 72%
1893 39 0.000119918 33 6 69%
1894 34 0.000100387 29 5 71%
1895 40 0.000113954 40 100%
1896 45 0.00012588 45 100%
1897 37 0.000106641 37 100%
1898 51 0.000133699 46 5 80%
1899 39 0.000114965 39 100%
1900 59 0.000131036 59 100%
1901 59 0.000170613 59 100%
1902 67 0.000173246 59 8 76%
1903 57 0.000149528 57 100%
1904 80 0.000198273 73 7 82%
1905 87 0.000205226 78 9 79%
1906 82 0.000191387 70 12 71%
1907 81 0.000174048 74 7 83%
1908 97 0.000198506 88 9 81%
1909 77 0.000150619 70 7 82%
1910 99 0.000167595 91 8 84%
1911 108 0.00016763 94 14 74%
1912 197 0.00019938 149 48 51%
1913 174 0.00015302 149 25 71%
1914 221 0.000156036 180 41 63%
1915 286 0.000156077 211 75 48%
1916 271 0.000140094 213 58 57%
1917 277 0.000138034 217 60 57%
1918 337 0.00015522 268 69 59%
1919 312 0.00014785 234 78 50%
1920 379 0.000167503 311 68 64%
1921 302 0.000129364 238 64 58%
1922 294 0.000128432 233 61 59%
1923 286 0.000124214 217 69 52%
1924 296 0.000124286 219 77 48%
1925 256 0.000109716 200 56 56%
1926 276 0.000120214 228 48 65%
1927 292 0.000125897 223 69 53%
1928 258 0.000114112 207 51 60%
1929 237 0.000108112 180 57 52%
1930 251 0.000112896 197 54 57%
1931 296 0.000140658 229 67 55%
1932 261 0.000123621 198 63 52%
1933 228 0.000114032 161 67 41%
1934 204 0.000098227 146 58 43%
1935 159 0.00007608 117 42 47%
1936 175 0.000084233 138 37 58%
1937 169 0.000079318 128 41 51%
1938 155 0.000070054 122 33 57%
1939 155 0.000070344 122 33 57%
1940 162 0.000070353 130 32 60%
1941 149 0.000061155 104 45 40%
1942 146 0.000053444 116 30 59%
1943 148 0.000052435 116 32 57%
1944 159 0.000059106 112 47 41%
1945 131 0.00004938 100 31 53%
1946 134 0.000041937 106 28 58%
1947 180 0.000049968 155 25 72%
1948 204 0.000059087 169 35 66%
1949 175 0.000050218 145 30 66%
1950 173 0.000049381 145 28 68%
1951 172 0.000046692 150 22 74%
1952 136 0.000035808 119 17 75%
1953 129 0.000033475 106 23 64%
1954 115 0.000028889 108 7 88%
1955 124 0.000030884 111 13 79%
1956 119 0.000028862 106 13 78%
1957 138 0.00003284 125 13 81%
1958 91 0.000022013 76 15 67%
1959 97 0.000023329 82 15 69%
1960 77 0.000018537 63 14 64%
1961 73 0.000017623 58 15 59%
1962 69 0.000017099 53 16 54%
1963 69 0.000017432 57 12 65%
1964 73 0.000018778 63 10 73%
1965 43 0.000011861 34 9 58%
1966 38 0.000010933 29 9 53%
1967 40 0.000011782 28 12 40%
1968 27 0.000007992 17 10 26%
1969 26 0.000007481 14 12 8%
1970 15 0.000004159 10 5 33%
1971 20 0.000005827 12 8 20%
1972 17 0.000005409 17 100%
1973 16 0.000005303 11 5 38%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 13 0.000004284 13 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 6 7 -8%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1981 20 0.000005781 14 6 40%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 100%
1983 12 0.000003465 7 5 17%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 100%
1989 19 0.000004942 14 5 47%
1990 13 0.000003289 13 100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 100%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 100%
2017 14 0.000003915 14 100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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