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How popular is “Blessing” in the USA?

Number of people named “Blessing” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Blessing” by birth year

This chart shows how “Blessing” 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
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 100%
1991 26 0.000006675 26 100%
1992 15 0.000003905 15 100%
1993 22 0.000005835 22 100%
1994 27 0.000007263 27 100%
1995 22 0.000006007 22 100%
1996 22 0.000006032 22 100%
1997 29 0.000007998 29 100%
1998 40 0.000010875 40 100%
1999 40 0.000010829 40 100%
2000 67 0.000017725 62 5 85%
2001 75 0.000020035 69 6 84%
2002 64 0.00001712 64 100%
2003 71 0.000018673 65 6 83%
2004 113 0.000029574 103 10 82%
2005 94 0.000024448 84 10 79%
2006 104 0.000026288 92 12 77%
2007 113 0.000028266 104 9 84%
2008 115 0.000029257 109 6 90%
2009 125 0.000032721 111 14 78%
2010 120 0.00003247 109 11 82%
2011 124 0.0000339 112 12 81%
2012 156 0.000042654 145 11 86%
2013 158 0.000043339 144 14 82%
2014 195 0.000052612 180 15 85%
2015 211 0.000057013 184 27 74%
2016 217 0.000059149 192 25 77%
2017 249 0.000069627 217 32 74%
2018 243 0.000069115 216 27 78%
2019 325 0.000093635 291 34 79%
2020 268 0.000080226 241 27 80%
2021 264 0.000077923 237 27 80%
2022 239 0.000070645 200 39 67%
2023 319 0.00009634 273 46 71%
2024 278 0.000083521 219 59 58%

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