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How popular is “Birdie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Birdie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Birdie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Birdie” 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 85 0.00042187 85 100%
1881 84 0.000435938 84 100%
1882 113 0.000510082 113 100%
1883 93 0.000428678 93 100%
1884 128 0.000525752 128 100%
1885 131 0.000543898 131 100%
1886 123 0.000481756 123 100%
1887 133 0.000537608 133 100%
1888 181 0.000604393 181 100%
1889 166 0.000574502 166 100%
1890 168 0.000557397 168 100%
1891 138 0.000481385 138 100%
1892 153 0.000457571 153 100%
1893 149 0.000458147 149 100%
1894 169 0.000498981 169 100%
1895 189 0.000538431 184 5 95%
1896 162 0.000453167 162 100%
1897 151 0.000435212 151 100%
1898 178 0.000466634 178 100%
1899 163 0.000480494 163 100%
1900 204 0.000453074 204 100%
1901 170 0.000491597 170 100%
1902 173 0.000447337 173 100%
1903 138 0.000362015 138 100%
1904 151 0.000374239 151 100%
1905 148 0.000349121 148 100%
1906 150 0.000350098 150 100%
1907 157 0.000337351 157 100%
1908 155 0.000317201 155 100%
1909 159 0.000311018 159 100%
1910 187 0.000316568 187 100%
1911 121 0.000187807 121 100%
1912 185 0.000187235 185 100%
1913 214 0.000188196 214 100%
1914 216 0.000152505 211 5 95%
1915 262 0.00014298 256 6 95%
1916 282 0.00014578 275 7 95%
1917 240 0.000119596 235 5 96%
1918 269 0.0001239 264 5 96%
1919 244 0.000115626 235 9 93%
1920 236 0.000104303 228 8 93%
1921 263 0.000112658 256 7 95%
1922 261 0.000114016 261 100%
1923 237 0.000102932 230 7 94%
1924 233 0.000097833 227 6 95%
1925 212 0.000090858 206 6 94%
1926 206 0.000089725 206 100%
1927 198 0.000085368 193 5 95%
1928 162 0.000071652 157 5 94%
1929 194 0.000088497 194 100%
1930 173 0.000077813 173 100%
1931 151 0.000071755 151 100%
1932 160 0.000075783 160 100%
1933 139 0.000069519 134 5 93%
1934 137 0.000065966 137 100%
1935 144 0.000068903 139 5 93%
1936 117 0.000056316 112 5 91%
1937 111 0.000052096 111 100%
1938 116 0.000052428 116 100%
1939 106 0.000048107 106 100%
1940 115 0.000049942 115 100%
1941 108 0.000044327 108 100%
1942 101 0.000036972 101 100%
1943 91 0.00003224 91 100%
1944 101 0.000037545 96 5 90%
1945 77 0.000029025 77 100%
1946 70 0.000021907 70 100%
1947 80 0.000022208 80 100%
1948 78 0.000022592 78 100%
1949 68 0.000019513 68 100%
1950 59 0.000016841 59 100%
1951 61 0.000016559 61 100%
1952 55 0.000014481 55 100%
1953 46 0.000011937 46 100%
1954 41 0.0000103 41 100%
1955 34 0.000008468 34 100%
1956 40 0.000009702 40 100%
1957 41 0.000009757 41 100%
1958 32 0.000007741 32 100%
1959 24 0.000005772 24 100%
1960 32 0.000007704 32 100%
1961 29 0.000007001 29 100%
1962 22 0.000005452 22 100%
1963 17 0.000004295 17 100%
1964 17 0.000004373 17 100%
1965 17 0.000004689 17 100%
1966 14 0.000004028 14 100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 100%
1969 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 100%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 100%
2010 20 0.000005412 20 100%
2011 20 0.000005468 20 100%
2012 24 0.000006562 24 100%
2013 37 0.000010149 37 100%
2014 41 0.000011062 41 100%
2015 64 0.000017293 64 100%
2016 80 0.000021806 80 100%
2017 97 0.000027124 97 100%
2018 172 0.000048921 172 100%
2019 222 0.00006396 222 100%
2020 254 0.000076035 254 100%
2021 307 0.000090615 307 100%
2022 352 0.000104046 352 100%
2023 411 0.000124124 411 100%
2024 373 0.000112062 373 100%

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  8. Birdy
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