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How popular is “Bliss” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bliss” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bliss” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bliss” 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
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 15 0.000007754 5 10 -33%
1917 17 0.000008471 8 9 -6%
1918 14 0.000006448 5 9 -29%
1919 10 0.000004739 5 5 0%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1943 12 0.000004251 6 6 0%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 5 5 0%
1959 12 0.000002886 6 6 0%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 100%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 100%
1975 14 0.000004637 14 100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 16 0.000005041 16 100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1986 69 0.000019398 69 100%
1987 52 0.000014422 52 100%
1988 37 0.000010013 37 100%
1989 26 0.000006763 26 100%
1990 23 0.000005819 23 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 21 0.00000557 21 100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 100%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
1997 16 0.000004413 16 100%
1998 20 0.000005437 20 100%
1999 16 0.000004332 16 100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 100%
2001 27 0.000007213 27 100%
2002 25 0.000006688 25 100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 100%
2004 19 0.000004973 19 100%
2005 27 0.000007022 27 100%
2006 37 0.000009352 37 100%
2007 26 0.000006504 21 5 62%
2008 27 0.000006869 27 100%
2009 33 0.000008638 33 100%
2010 49 0.000013259 49 100%
2011 57 0.000015583 57 100%
2012 62 0.000016952 56 6 81%
2013 48 0.000013166 43 5 79%
2014 51 0.00001376 51 100%
2015 53 0.000014321 46 7 74%
2016 46 0.000012539 41 5 78%
2017 41 0.000011465 41 100%
2018 50 0.000014221 45 5 80%
2019 46 0.000013253 46 100%
2020 64 0.000019158 57 7 78%
2021 77 0.000022728 69 8 79%
2022 54 0.000015962 48 6 78%
2023 106 0.000032013 94 12 77%
2024 95 0.000028541 86 9 81%

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