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How popular is “Bless” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bless” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bless” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bless” 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
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 20 0.000005291 12 8 20%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2002 17 0.000004548 11 6 29%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 100%
2004 13 0.000003402 7 6 8%
2005 19 0.000004942 11 8 16%
2006 16 0.000004044 8 8 0%
2007 10 0.000002501 10 -100%
2008 19 0.000004834 9 10 -5%
2009 26 0.000006806 9 17 -31%
2010 22 0.000005953 9 13 -18%
2011 27 0.000007382 18 9 33%
2012 20 0.000005468 6 14 -40%
2013 31 0.000008503 9 22 -42%
2014 27 0.000007285 11 16 -19%
2015 43 0.000011619 14 29 -35%
2016 33 0.000008995 16 17 -3%
2017 40 0.000011185 17 23 -15%
2018 60 0.000017065 19 41 -37%
2019 52 0.000014982 16 36 -38%
2020 43 0.000012872 13 30 -40%
2021 50 0.000014758 14 36 -44%
2022 56 0.000016553 15 41 -46%
2023 53 0.000016006 21 32 -21%
2024 45 0.00001352 12 33 -47%

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