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How popular is “Blake” in the USA?

Number of people named “Blake” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Blake” by birth year

This chart shows how “Blake” 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
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1886 9 0.00003525 9 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1892 8 0.000023925 8 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 -100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 -100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 -100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 16 0.000014071 16 -100%
1914 20 0.000014121 20 -100%
1915 38 0.000020738 38 -100%
1916 29 0.000014992 29 -100%
1917 38 0.000018936 38 -100%
1918 39 0.000017963 39 -100%
1919 45 0.000021325 45 -100%
1920 50 0.000022098 50 -100%
1921 61 0.00002613 61 -100%
1922 39 0.000017037 39 -100%
1923 42 0.000018241 42 -100%
1924 41 0.000017215 41 -100%
1925 37 0.000015857 37 -100%
1926 36 0.00001568 36 -100%
1927 41 0.000017677 41 -100%
1928 37 0.000016365 37 -100%
1929 30 0.000013685 30 -100%
1930 29 0.000013044 29 -100%
1931 31 0.000014731 31 -100%
1932 33 0.00001563 33 -100%
1933 41 0.000020506 41 -100%
1934 36 0.000017334 36 -100%
1935 34 0.000016269 34 -100%
1936 30 0.00001444 30 -100%
1937 28 0.000013141 28 -100%
1938 28 0.000012655 28 -100%
1939 30 0.000013615 30 -100%
1940 33 0.000014331 33 -100%
1941 33 0.000013544 33 -100%
1942 44 0.000016106 44 -100%
1943 58 0.000020549 58 -100%
1944 42 0.000015613 42 -100%
1945 51 0.000019224 51 -100%
1946 71 0.00002222 71 -100%
1947 86 0.000023873 86 -100%
1948 76 0.000022013 76 -100%
1949 89 0.00002554 89 -100%
1950 131 0.000037393 131 -100%
1951 144 0.000039091 5 139 -93%
1952 212 0.000055819 212 -100%
1953 213 0.000055272 6 207 -94%
1954 279 0.000070088 279 -100%
1955 279 0.000069488 279 -100%
1956 282 0.000068396 282 -100%
1957 288 0.000068536 288 -100%
1958 367 0.000088778 367 -100%
1959 411 0.000098846 411 -100%
1960 433 0.000104242 433 -100%
1961 511 0.000123361 511 -100%
1962 554 0.000137286 9 545 -97%
1963 576 0.000145521 7 569 -98%
1964 480 0.000123469 8 472 -97%
1965 455 0.000125502 10 445 -96%
1966 409 0.000117676 9 400 -96%
1967 431 0.000126955 9 422 -96%
1968 423 0.000125207 20 403 -91%
1969 535 0.000153943 14 521 -95%
1970 543 0.000150561 17 526 -94%
1971 489 0.000142468 13 476 -95%
1972 485 0.000154311 22 463 -91%
1973 442 0.000146509 15 427 -93%
1974 441 0.000145066 22 419 -90%
1975 547 0.000181162 24 523 -91%
1976 567 0.000186864 13 554 -95%
1977 669 0.00021061 25 644 -93%
1978 702 0.000221181 34 668 -90%
1979 786 0.000236249 42 744 -89%
1980 1010 0.000293221 39 971 -92%
1981 1766 0.000510497 64 1702 -93%
1982 2410 0.000687009 57 2353 -95%
1983 2543 0.000734263 46 2497 -96%
1984 2805 0.000804012 48 2757 -97%
1985 2984 0.000836063 62 2922 -96%
1986 2878 0.000809091 89 2789 -94%
1987 2888 0.000800973 103 2785 -93%
1988 3190 0.000863319 91 3099 -94%
1989 3671 0.000954884 148 3523 -92%
1990 4305 0.00108919 203 4102 -91%
1991 4473 0.001148317 198 4275 -91%
1992 4586 0.001193875 190 4396 -92%
1993 4700 0.001246592 196 4504 -92%
1994 5071 0.001364033 192 4879 -92%
1995 5023 0.001371597 203 4820 -92%
1996 4937 0.001353643 190 4747 -92%
1997 4935 0.001361098 207 4728 -92%
1998 4780 0.001299546 173 4607 -93%
1999 4984 0.001349263 172 4812 -93%
2000 5326 0.001409031 183 5143 -93%
2001 5500 0.001469256 144 5356 -95%
2002 5488 0.001468051 130 5358 -95%
2003 5383 0.001415715 108 5275 -96%
2004 4808 0.001258335 114 4694 -95%
2005 4504 0.001171439 86 4418 -96%
2006 4628 0.001169813 91 4537 -96%
2007 5367 0.001342528 90 5277 -97%
2008 5261 0.00133845 162 5099 -94%
2009 5182 0.001356482 230 4952 -91%
2010 4944 0.001337757 241 4703 -90%
2011 5941 0.001624204 325 5616 -89%
2012 6450 0.001763564 403 6047 -88%
2013 6185 0.001696535 536 5649 -83%
2014 5449 0.001470169 501 4948 -82%
2015 4985 0.001346965 752 4233 -70%
2016 4387 0.001195792 1098 3289 -50%
2017 3811 0.001065658 1185 2626 -38%
2018 3650 0.001038142 1185 2465 -35%
2019 3529 0.00101673 1388 2141 -21%
2020 3132 0.000937563 1319 1813 -16%
2021 3350 0.000988799 1502 1848 -10%
2022 3027 0.000894732 1448 1579 -4%
2023 2723 0.000822361 1351 1372 -1%
2024 2768 0.000831606 1457 1311 5%

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