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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Billey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Billey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Billey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Billey” 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
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 -100%
1923 9 0.000003909 9 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 15 0.000006429 15 -100%
1926 16 0.000006969 16 -100%
1927 15 0.000006467 15 -100%
1928 14 0.000006192 14 -100%
1929 18 0.000008211 18 -100%
1930 18 0.000008096 18 -100%
1931 24 0.000011405 24 -100%
1932 12 0.000005684 12 -100%
1933 16 0.000008002 16 -100%
1934 24 0.000011556 24 -100%
1935 13 0.00000622 13 -100%
1936 17 0.000008183 17 -100%
1937 23 0.000010795 23 -100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 -100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 -100%
1945 14 0.000005277 14 -100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 -100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1967 11 0.00000324 11 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%

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