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How popular is “Beth” in the USA?

Number of people named “Beth” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Beth” by birth year

This chart shows how “Beth” 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
1884 6 0.000024645 6 100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 100%
1886 17 0.000066584 17 100%
1887 11 0.000044464 11 100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 100%
1889 26 0.000089982 26 100%
1890 15 0.000049768 15 100%
1891 24 0.000083719 24 100%
1892 18 0.000053832 18 100%
1893 27 0.00008302 27 100%
1894 24 0.000070861 24 100%
1895 22 0.000062674 22 100%
1896 29 0.000081123 29 100%
1897 27 0.000077819 27 100%
1898 22 0.000057674 22 100%
1899 32 0.00009433 32 100%
1900 29 0.000064408 29 100%
1901 23 0.00006651 23 100%
1902 28 0.000072401 28 100%
1903 32 0.000083945 32 100%
1904 30 0.000074352 30 100%
1905 22 0.000051896 22 100%
1906 31 0.000072354 31 100%
1907 36 0.000077354 36 100%
1908 49 0.000100276 49 100%
1909 54 0.000105629 54 100%
1910 63 0.000106651 63 100%
1911 57 0.000088471 57 100%
1912 123 0.000124486 123 100%
1913 129 0.000113445 129 100%
1914 173 0.000122145 173 100%
1915 209 0.000114056 209 100%
1916 285 0.000147331 285 100%
1917 298 0.000148499 298 100%
1918 335 0.000154299 335 100%
1919 355 0.000168227 355 100%
1920 349 0.000154244 349 100%
1921 356 0.000152495 356 100%
1922 284 0.000124063 284 100%
1923 287 0.000124648 287 100%
1924 319 0.000133943 319 100%
1925 315 0.000135002 315 100%
1926 329 0.000143299 329 100%
1927 310 0.000133658 310 100%
1928 290 0.000128265 290 100%
1929 262 0.000119517 262 100%
1930 251 0.000112896 251 100%
1931 238 0.000113097 238 100%
1932 276 0.000130726 276 100%
1933 256 0.000128035 256 100%
1934 343 0.000165157 343 100%
1935 343 0.000164123 343 100%
1936 326 0.000156913 326 100%
1937 371 0.000174124 371 100%
1938 406 0.000183497 406 100%
1939 501 0.000227372 501 100%
1940 470 0.00020411 470 100%
1941 601 0.000246673 601 100%
1942 664 0.000243062 664 100%
1943 785 0.000278116 785 100%
1944 750 0.000278802 750 100%
1945 806 0.000303817 806 100%
1946 962 0.000301067 962 100%
1947 1179 0.000327289 1179 100%
1948 1087 0.000314843 1087 100%
1949 1357 0.000389408 1357 100%
1950 1580 0.000450996 1580 100%
1951 1980 0.000537497 1980 100%
1952 2360 0.000621379 2360 100%
1953 2564 0.000665344 2564 100%
1954 3041 0.000763934 3034 7 100%
1955 3280 0.00081692 3272 8 100%
1956 3806 0.000923106 3798 8 100%
1957 4359 0.001037328 4351 8 100%
1958 4990 0.001207091 4979 11 100%
1959 6080 0.001462244 6068 12 100%
1960 6267 0.001508733 6257 10 100%
1961 6731 0.001624942 6716 15 100%
1962 6431 0.001593657 6419 12 100%
1963 6695 0.001691425 6676 19 99%
1964 6698 0.001722912 6686 12 100%
1965 5786 0.00159594 5774 12 100%
1966 5461 0.001571215 5444 17 99%
1967 5199 0.001531416 5184 15 99%
1968 4781 0.001415162 4767 14 99%
1969 4469 0.001285924 4460 9 100%
1970 4259 0.001180919 4247 12 99%
1971 3693 0.001075938 3686 7 100%
1972 2825 0.000898824 2817 8 99%
1973 2570 0.000851872 2563 7 99%
1974 2531 0.000832566 2523 8 99%
1975 2332 0.00077234 2324 8 99%
1976 2316 0.000763273 2306 10 99%
1977 2977 0.000937197 2968 9 99%
1978 2749 0.000866135 2740 9 99%
1979 2696 0.00081034 2688 8 99%
1980 2858 0.000829727 2848 10 99%
1981 2319 0.000670352 2310 9 99%
1982 2003 0.000570987 2003 100%
1983 1642 0.000474109 1635 7 99%
1984 1632 0.000467789 1632 100%
1985 1347 0.000377405 1341 6 99%
1986 1141 0.000320769 1135 6 99%
1987 937 0.000259873 930 7 99%
1988 862 0.000233286 862 100%
1989 682 0.000177399 677 5 99%
1990 663 0.000167743 663 100%
1991 544 0.000139657 544 100%
1992 462 0.000120273 462 100%
1993 346 0.00009177 346 100%
1994 315 0.000084731 315 100%
1995 282 0.000077004 282 100%
1996 239 0.00006553 239 100%
1997 238 0.000065642 238 100%
1998 193 0.000052471 193 100%
1999 175 0.000047376 175 100%
2000 161 0.000042594 161 100%
2001 156 0.000041673 156 100%
2002 107 0.000028623 107 100%
2003 103 0.000027089 103 100%
2004 103 0.000026957 103 100%
2005 57 0.000014825 57 100%
2006 85 0.000021485 85 100%
2007 61 0.000015259 61 100%
2008 69 0.000017554 69 100%
2009 40 0.000010471 40 100%
2010 36 0.000009741 36 100%
2011 49 0.000013396 49 100%
2012 47 0.000012851 47 100%
2013 35 0.0000096 35 100%
2014 45 0.000012141 45 100%
2015 44 0.000011889 44 100%
2016 39 0.00001063 39 100%
2017 38 0.000010626 38 100%
2018 46 0.000013083 46 100%
2019 33 0.000009508 33 100%
2020 43 0.000012872 43 100%
2021 52 0.000015349 52 100%
2022 40 0.000011823 40 100%
2023 31 0.000009362 31 100%
2024 53 0.000015923 53 100%

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