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How popular is “Blaine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Blaine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Blaine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Blaine” 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 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1881 6 0.000031138 6 -100%
1882 13 0.000058682 13 -100%
1883 13 0.000059923 13 -100%
1884 62 0.000254661 62 -100%
1885 20 0.000083038 20 -100%
1886 12 0.000047001 12 -100%
1887 12 0.000048506 12 -100%
1888 13 0.000043409 13 -100%
1889 19 0.000065756 19 -100%
1890 11 0.000036496 11 -100%
1891 17 0.000059301 17 -100%
1892 18 0.000053832 18 -100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 -100%
1894 9 0.000026573 9 -100%
1895 8 0.000022791 8 -100%
1896 15 0.00004196 15 -100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 -100%
1904 12 0.000029741 12 -100%
1905 12 0.000028307 12 -100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 -100%
1907 15 0.000032231 15 -100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 -100%
1909 12 0.000023473 12 -100%
1910 20 0.000033858 20 -100%
1911 23 0.000035699 23 -100%
1912 41 0.000041495 41 -100%
1913 64 0.000056283 64 -100%
1914 72 0.000050835 72 -100%
1915 110 0.00006003 5 105 -91%
1916 119 0.000061517 119 -100%
1917 127 0.000063286 127 -100%
1918 117 0.000053889 117 -100%
1919 136 0.000064447 136 -100%
1920 135 0.000059665 135 -100%
1921 159 0.000068109 159 -100%
1922 155 0.000067711 155 -100%
1923 179 0.000077742 179 -100%
1924 148 0.000062143 148 -100%
1925 134 0.000057429 134 -100%
1926 146 0.000063591 146 -100%
1927 139 0.00005993 139 -100%
1928 135 0.00005971 135 -100%
1929 153 0.000069794 153 -100%
1930 157 0.000070616 157 -100%
1931 126 0.000059875 126 -100%
1932 135 0.000063942 135 -100%
1933 148 0.00007402 148 -100%
1934 147 0.000070781 147 -100%
1935 140 0.000066989 140 -100%
1936 146 0.000070274 146 -100%
1937 128 0.000060075 128 -100%
1938 125 0.000056495 125 -100%
1939 145 0.000065806 145 -100%
1940 140 0.000060799 5 135 -93%
1941 136 0.000055819 136 -100%
1942 154 0.000056373 5 149 -94%
1943 163 0.000057749 163 -100%
1944 117 0.000043493 117 -100%
1945 137 0.000051641 137 -100%
1946 184 0.000057584 184 -100%
1947 210 0.000058296 210 -100%
1948 206 0.000059667 206 -100%
1949 187 0.000053662 187 -100%
1950 235 0.000067079 235 -100%
1951 259 0.000070309 259 -100%
1952 268 0.000070563 268 -100%
1953 319 0.000082779 5 314 -97%
1954 330 0.0000829 5 325 -97%
1955 315 0.000078454 315 -100%
1956 352 0.000085374 352 -100%
1957 345 0.000082101 345 -100%
1958 344 0.000083214 6 338 -97%
1959 356 0.000085618 5 351 -97%
1960 392 0.000094371 5 387 -97%
1961 430 0.000103807 7 423 -97%
1962 434 0.000107549 434 -100%
1963 395 0.000099793 5 390 -97%
1964 404 0.00010392 7 397 -97%
1965 350 0.00009654 6 344 -97%
1966 315 0.00009063 7 308 -96%
1967 280 0.000082477 280 -100%
1968 299 0.000088503 299 -100%
1969 346 0.000099559 6 340 -97%
1970 330 0.000091501 330 -100%
1971 318 0.000092648 10 308 -94%
1972 259 0.000082406 259 -100%
1973 260 0.000086182 8 252 -94%
1974 234 0.000076974 234 -100%
1975 243 0.00008048 243 -100%
1976 262 0.000086346 262 -100%
1977 259 0.000081536 9 250 -93%
1978 246 0.000077508 8 238 -93%
1979 250 0.000075143 21 229 -83%
1980 286 0.000083031 19 267 -87%
1981 341 0.000098573 37 304 -78%
1982 296 0.000084379 36 260 -76%
1983 289 0.000083445 23 266 -84%
1984 301 0.000086277 25 276 -83%
1985 331 0.00009274 21 310 -87%
1986 410 0.000115263 27 383 -87%
1987 539 0.000149489 36 503 -87%
1988 540 0.000146142 38 502 -86%
1989 632 0.000164393 33 599 -90%
1990 613 0.000155093 36 577 -88%
1991 542 0.000139143 26 516 -90%
1992 537 0.000139797 34 503 -87%
1993 489 0.000129699 32 457 -87%
1994 436 0.000117278 33 403 -85%
1995 461 0.000125882 27 434 -88%
1996 440 0.000120641 27 413 -88%
1997 508 0.000140109 24 484 -91%
1998 460 0.000125061 26 434 -89%
1999 426 0.000115326 25 401 -88%
2000 555 0.000146829 28 527 -90%
2001 644 0.000172037 27 617 -92%
2002 599 0.000160234 23 576 -92%
2003 540 0.000142019 21 519 -92%
2004 420 0.000109921 18 402 -91%
2005 483 0.000125623 16 467 -93%
2006 448 0.00011324 12 436 -95%
2007 474 0.000118569 13 461 -95%
2008 422 0.000107361 18 404 -91%
2009 405 0.000106016 15 390 -93%
2010 396 0.00010715 15 381 -92%
2011 453 0.000123845 14 439 -94%
2012 461 0.000126047 19 442 -92%
2013 464 0.000127274 18 446 -92%
2014 397 0.000107113 20 377 -90%
2015 414 0.000111864 14 400 -93%
2016 378 0.000103034 19 359 -90%
2017 341 0.000095353 18 323 -89%
2018 261 0.000074234 12 249 -91%
2019 268 0.000077213 17 251 -87%
2020 276 0.00008262 20 256 -86%
2021 253 0.000074676 29 224 -77%
2022 240 0.00007094 26 214 -78%
2023 238 0.000071877 30 208 -75%
2024 225 0.000067598 34 191 -70%

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