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How popular is “Beverly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Beverly” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Beverly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Beverly” 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 12 0.000059558 12 -100%
1881 11 0.000057087 11 -100%
1882 9 0.000040626 9 -100%
1883 10 0.000046094 10 -100%
1884 15 0.000061612 15 -100%
1885 13 0.000053975 13 -100%
1886 9 0.00003525 9 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1889 14 0.000048452 14 -100%
1891 9 0.000031395 9 -100%
1892 15 0.00004486 15 -100%
1893 19 0.000058421 5 14 -47%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1897 13 0.000037469 5 8 -23%
1898 11 0.000028837 6 5 9%
1899 11 0.000032426 5 6 -9%
1900 21 0.00004664 13 8 24%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1902 24 0.000062058 12 12 0%
1903 22 0.000057712 9 13 -18%
1904 24 0.000059482 13 11 8%
1905 32 0.000075486 16 16 0%
1906 39 0.000091026 31 8 59%
1907 40 0.000085949 26 14 30%
1908 44 0.000090044 32 12 45%
1909 49 0.000095848 35 14 43%
1910 72 0.000121887 56 16 56%
1911 83 0.000128826 60 23 45%
1912 132 0.000133595 88 44 33%
1913 149 0.000131034 103 46 38%
1914 202 0.000142621 142 60 41%
1915 424 0.000231387 311 113 47%
1916 571 0.000295179 495 76 73%
1917 703 0.000350318 630 73 79%
1918 789 0.000363408 706 83 79%
1919 777 0.000368204 684 93 76%
1920 1034 0.000456988 940 94 82%
1921 1262 0.000540586 1160 102 84%
1922 1506 0.000657884 1411 95 87%
1923 1845 0.00080131 1737 108 88%
1924 2390 0.001003523 2283 107 91%
1925 2756 0.001181159 2668 88 94%
1926 3896 0.001696934 3775 121 94%
1927 5049 0.002176896 4932 117 95%
1928 5551 0.002455176 5437 114 96%
1929 5976 0.002726077 5862 114 96%
1930 6558 0.002949685 6455 103 97%
1931 6881 0.003269834 6789 92 97%
1932 7644 0.003620534 7527 117 97%
1933 7276 0.003639006 7185 91 97%
1934 7989 0.003846754 7887 102 97%
1935 8089 0.00387052 7992 97 98%
1936 8993 0.004328598 8901 92 98%
1937 9729 0.004566169 9632 97 98%
1938 9865 0.004458608 9770 95 98%
1939 8787 0.003987852 8704 83 98%
1940 8753 0.003801215 8658 95 98%
1941 8826 0.003622521 8727 99 98%
1942 9498 0.003476806 9411 87 98%
1943 9523 0.003373889 9435 88 98%
1944 8360 0.003107715 8292 68 98%
1945 7669 0.002890788 7618 51 99%
1946 10495 0.003284504 10430 65 99%
1947 11278 0.003130758 11205 73 99%
1948 10850 0.003142634 10796 54 99%
1949 10616 0.003046394 10552 64 99%
1950 10565 0.003015678 10504 61 99%
1951 10910 0.002961665 10858 52 99%
1952 10631 0.002799101 10547 84 98%
1953 11287 0.002928916 11240 47 99%
1954 11223 0.002819348 11155 68 99%
1955 10056 0.002504558 10001 55 99%
1956 9491 0.002301944 9450 41 99%
1957 8607 0.002048241 8560 47 99%
1958 7712 0.001865549 7679 33 99%
1959 7844 0.001886487 7795 49 99%
1960 7425 0.001787513 7393 32 99%
1961 6742 0.001627598 6708 34 99%
1962 6301 0.001561442 6266 35 99%
1963 5310 0.001341519 5280 30 99%
1964 4635 0.001192251 4606 29 99%
1965 3793 0.001046215 3771 22 99%
1966 3236 0.000931048 3219 17 99%
1967 3019 0.000889276 3003 16 99%
1968 2608 0.00077196 2590 18 99%
1969 2421 0.000696626 2404 17 99%
1970 2260 0.000626644 2248 12 99%
1971 2004 0.000583856 1988 16 98%
1972 1583 0.00050366 1568 15 98%
1973 1358 0.000450133 1347 11 98%
1974 1217 0.000400329 1206 11 98%
1975 1019 0.000337485 1010 9 98%
1976 943 0.00031078 932 11 98%
1977 870 0.000273887 862 8 98%
1978 824 0.00025962 824 100%
1979 720 0.000216411 713 7 98%
1980 721 0.000209319 721 100%
1981 675 0.000195122 675 100%
1982 616 0.000175601 609 7 98%
1983 568 0.000164004 568 100%
1984 528 0.000151343 522 6 98%
1985 491 0.000137569 482 9 96%
1986 453 0.000127352 446 7 97%
1987 460 0.000127579 455 5 98%
1988 469 0.000126927 463 6 97%
1989 443 0.000115231 434 9 96%
1990 456 0.000115371 456 100%
1991 438 0.000112444 433 5 98%
1992 444 0.000115587 444 100%
1993 405 0.000107419 405 100%
1994 368 0.000098987 368 100%
1995 288 0.000078642 288 100%
1996 266 0.000072933 266 100%
1997 248 0.0000684 248 100%
1998 220 0.000059812 220 100%
1999 219 0.000059287 219 100%
2000 183 0.000048414 183 100%
2001 189 0.000050489 189 100%
2002 184 0.00004922 184 100%
2003 175 0.000046025 175 100%
2004 192 0.00005025 192 100%
2005 154 0.000040054 154 100%
2006 183 0.000046257 183 100%
2007 157 0.000039273 157 100%
2008 168 0.000042741 168 100%
2009 138 0.000036124 138 100%
2010 99 0.000026788 99 100%
2011 119 0.000032533 119 100%
2012 125 0.000034178 125 100%
2013 141 0.000038676 141 100%
2014 142 0.000038312 142 100%
2015 155 0.000041882 155 100%
2016 167 0.00004552 167 100%
2017 161 0.00004502 161 100%
2018 175 0.000049774 175 100%
2019 168 0.000048402 168 100%
2020 177 0.000052985 177 100%
2021 188 0.000055491 188 100%
2022 224 0.000066211 224 100%
2023 202 0.000061005 202 100%
2024 239 0.000071804 239 100%

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