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How popular is “Blue” in the USA?

Number of people named “Blue” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Blue” by birth year

This chart shows how “Blue” 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
1968 11 0.000003256 11 -100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 -100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1971 10 0.000002913 5 5 0%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 -100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 -100%
1974 15 0.000004934 15 -100%
1975 16 0.000005299 16 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 -100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 -100%
1993 18 0.000004774 10 8 11%
1994 17 0.000004573 6 11 -29%
1995 27 0.000007373 13 14 -4%
1996 18 0.000004935 7 11 -22%
1997 21 0.000005792 8 13 -24%
1998 29 0.000007884 12 17 -17%
1999 20 0.000005414 9 11 -10%
2000 33 0.00000873 10 23 -39%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 -100%
2002 19 0.000005083 6 13 -37%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 -100%
2004 24 0.000006281 7 17 -42%
2005 30 0.000007803 14 16 -7%
2006 28 0.000007078 8 20 -43%
2007 20 0.000005003 6 14 -40%
2008 27 0.000006869 9 18 -33%
2009 16 0.000004188 5 11 -38%
2010 23 0.000006223 8 15 -30%
2011 18 0.000004921 7 11 -22%
2012 32 0.000008749 10 22 -38%
2013 41 0.000011246 21 20 2%
2014 37 0.000009983 20 17 8%
2015 52 0.000014051 20 32 -23%
2016 39 0.00001063 16 23 -18%
2017 48 0.000013422 19 29 -21%
2018 52 0.00001479 23 29 -12%
2019 54 0.000015558 19 35 -30%
2020 74 0.000022152 32 42 -14%
2021 89 0.00002627 43 46 -3%
2022 85 0.000025125 37 48 -13%
2023 74 0.000022348 32 42 -14%
2024 82 0.000024636 31 51 -24%

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