Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Bev” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bev” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bev” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bev” 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
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 100%
1942 10 0.000003661 10 100%
1943 16 0.000005669 16 100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 100%
1947 24 0.000006662 24 100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 100%
1955 17 0.000004234 17 100%
1956 30 0.000007276 30 100%
1957 73 0.000017372 73 100%
1958 111 0.000026851 111 100%
1959 127 0.000030544 127 100%
1960 117 0.000028167 117 100%
1961 98 0.000023658 98 100%
1962 84 0.000020816 84 100%
1963 49 0.000012379 49 100%
1964 50 0.000012861 50 100%
1965 27 0.000007447 27 100%
1966 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 100%

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