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How popular is “Blakely” in the USA?

Number of people named “Blakely” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Blakely” by birth year

This chart shows how “Blakely” 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 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 15 0.000004316 5 10 -33%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 -100%
1973 13 0.000004309 5 8 -23%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 -100%
1975 20 0.000006624 10 10 0%
1976 17 0.000005603 10 7 18%
1977 22 0.000006926 7 15 -36%
1978 27 0.000008507 16 11 19%
1979 23 0.000006913 12 11 4%
1980 35 0.000010161 17 18 -3%
1981 39 0.000011274 13 26 -33%
1982 49 0.000013968 16 33 -35%
1983 39 0.000011261 12 27 -38%
1984 39 0.000011179 16 23 -18%
1985 43 0.000012048 19 24 -12%
1986 33 0.000009277 16 17 -3%
1987 52 0.000014422 21 31 -19%
1988 58 0.000015697 36 22 24%
1989 61 0.000015867 40 21 31%
1990 74 0.000018722 22 52 -41%
1991 50 0.000012836 29 21 16%
1992 65 0.000016921 36 29 11%
1993 69 0.000018301 43 26 25%
1994 57 0.000015332 36 21 26%
1995 60 0.000016384 34 26 13%
1996 63 0.000017274 39 24 24%
1997 70 0.000019306 42 28 20%
1998 54 0.000014681 32 22 19%
1999 71 0.000019221 38 33 7%
2000 83 0.000021958 57 26 37%
2001 85 0.000022707 57 28 34%
2002 67 0.000017923 49 18 46%
2003 73 0.000019199 53 20 45%
2004 73 0.000019105 57 16 56%
2005 74 0.000019247 60 14 62%
2006 83 0.00002098 66 17 59%
2007 97 0.000024264 72 25 48%
2008 117 0.000029766 97 20 66%
2009 190 0.000049736 176 14 85%
2010 252 0.000068187 231 21 83%
2011 308 0.000084204 278 30 81%
2012 574 0.000156944 544 30 90%
2013 709 0.000194477 683 26 93%
2014 801 0.000216114 777 24 94%
2015 942 0.000254532 921 21 96%
2016 1198 0.000326546 1178 20 97%
2017 1248 0.000348974 1230 18 97%
2018 1318 0.000374869 1308 10 98%
2019 1626 0.000468462 1609 17 98%
2020 1733 0.000518773 1712 21 98%
2021 1851 0.000546348 1836 15 98%
2022 1750 0.000517272 1736 14 98%
2023 1872 0.000565355 1859 13 99%
2024 1895 0.000569325 1882 13 99%

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