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How popular is “Beyonce” in the USA?

Number of people named “Beyonce” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Beyonce” by birth year

This chart shows how “Beyonce” 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
1998 18 0.000004894 18 100%
1999 67 0.000018138 67 100%
2000 197 0.000052118 197 100%
2001 353 0.0000943 353 100%
2002 153 0.000040928 153 100%
2003 206 0.000054177 206 100%
2004 176 0.000046062 176 100%
2005 106 0.000027569 106 100%
2006 106 0.000026793 106 100%
2007 185 0.000046277 185 100%
2008 105 0.000026713 105 100%
2009 79 0.00002068 79 100%
2010 51 0.0000138 51 100%
2011 39 0.000010662 39 100%
2012 36 0.000009843 36 100%
2013 28 0.00000768 28 100%
2014 22 0.000005936 22 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 100%

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  9. Beyounce
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