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How popular is “Bethany” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bethany” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bethany” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bethany” 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
1915 6 0.000003274 6 100%
1916 9 0.000004653 9 100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 100%
1923 18 0.000007818 18 100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 100%
1925 20 0.000008572 20 100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 100%
1927 16 0.000006898 16 100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 100%
1929 13 0.00000593 13 100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 100%
1931 14 0.000006653 14 100%
1932 12 0.000005684 12 100%
1933 17 0.000008502 17 100%
1934 21 0.000010112 21 100%
1935 22 0.000010527 22 100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 100%
1937 14 0.000006571 14 100%
1938 20 0.000009039 20 100%
1939 29 0.000013161 29 100%
1940 22 0.000009554 22 100%
1941 22 0.00000903 22 100%
1942 51 0.000018669 51 100%
1943 43 0.000015234 43 100%
1944 34 0.000012639 34 100%
1945 34 0.000012816 34 100%
1946 50 0.000015648 50 100%
1947 48 0.000013325 48 100%
1948 71 0.000020565 71 100%
1949 96 0.000027548 96 100%
1950 117 0.000033397 117 100%
1951 145 0.000039362 145 100%
1952 130 0.000034228 130 100%
1953 120 0.000031139 120 100%
1954 173 0.00004346 173 100%
1955 170 0.00004234 170 100%
1956 156 0.000037836 156 100%
1957 158 0.0000376 158 100%
1958 146 0.000035318 146 100%
1959 199 0.00004786 199 100%
1960 215 0.00005176 215 100%
1961 226 0.000054559 226 100%
1962 249 0.000061704 249 100%
1963 334 0.000084382 334 100%
1964 367 0.000094403 367 100%
1965 387 0.000106745 387 100%
1966 430 0.000123718 430 100%
1967 475 0.000139916 475 100%
1968 501 0.000148294 501 100%
1969 623 0.000179264 623 100%
1970 709 0.000196589 703 6 98%
1971 654 0.00019054 654 100%
1972 786 0.00025008 781 5 99%
1973 1042 0.000345389 1042 100%
1974 1186 0.000390132 1181 5 99%
1975 1136 0.000376234 1136 100%
1976 1293 0.000426128 1293 100%
1977 1532 0.000482293 1532 100%
1978 1771 0.000557994 1765 6 99%
1979 2102 0.0006318 2094 8 99%
1980 2507 0.000727826 2497 10 99%
1981 2701 0.000780777 2690 11 99%
1982 2724 0.000776519 2713 11 99%
1983 2778 0.000802116 2765 13 99%
1984 2992 0.000857613 2982 10 99%
1985 2966 0.000831019 2957 9 99%
1986 3089 0.000868409 3082 7 100%
1987 3307 0.000917181 3294 13 99%
1988 3275 0.000886323 3270 5 100%
1989 3097 0.000805577 3082 15 99%
1990 3245 0.000821004 3238 7 100%
1991 3118 0.000800459 3113 5 100%
1992 2937 0.00076459 2930 7 100%
1993 2846 0.000754851 2840 6 100%
1994 2774 0.00074617 2774 100%
1995 2748 0.000750378 2743 5 100%
1996 2699 0.000740021 2699 100%
1997 2623 0.000723437 2623 100%
1998 2490 0.00067696 2490 100%
1999 2310 0.000625361 2303 7 99%
2000 2191 0.000579644 2191 100%
2001 2035 0.000543625 2030 5 100%
2002 1793 0.000479631 1793 100%
2003 1619 0.000425793 1619 100%
2004 1637 0.000428431 1629 8 99%
2005 1504 0.000391173 1504 100%
2006 1405 0.00035514 1405 100%
2007 1168 0.000292169 1168 100%
2008 1065 0.000270947 1065 100%
2009 964 0.000252344 964 100%
2010 865 0.000234053 865 100%
2011 915 0.000250151 915 100%
2012 903 0.000246899 903 100%
2013 803 0.000220261 803 100%
2014 829 0.000223669 829 100%
2015 770 0.000208057 770 100%
2016 692 0.000188623 692 100%
2017 629 0.000175885 629 100%
2018 657 0.000186866 657 100%
2019 550 0.000158459 550 100%
2020 483 0.000144586 483 100%
2021 464 0.000136956 464 100%
2022 443 0.000130944 443 100%
2023 390 0.000117782 390 100%
2024 386 0.000115968 386 100%

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