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How popular is “Booker” in the USA?

Number of people named “Booker” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Booker” by birth year

This chart shows how “Booker” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 -100%
1897 15 0.000043233 15 -100%
1898 16 0.000041945 16 -100%
1899 20 0.000058956 20 -100%
1900 46 0.000102164 46 -100%
1901 29 0.000083861 29 -100%
1902 61 0.000157732 61 -100%
1903 80 0.000209864 80 -100%
1904 93 0.000230492 93 -100%
1905 93 0.00021938 93 -100%
1906 95 0.000221729 95 -100%
1907 100 0.000214874 100 -100%
1908 111 0.000227157 111 -100%
1909 101 0.000197565 101 -100%
1910 159 0.000269167 159 -100%
1911 110 0.000170734 110 -100%
1912 161 0.000162945 161 -100%
1913 151 0.000132793 151 -100%
1914 218 0.000153917 218 -100%
1915 272 0.000148437 272 -100%
1916 294 0.000151984 294 -100%
1917 233 0.000116108 233 -100%
1918 238 0.000109621 238 -100%
1919 215 0.000101884 215 -100%
1920 196 0.000086624 196 -100%
1921 179 0.000076676 179 -100%
1922 198 0.000086495 198 -100%
1923 185 0.000080348 185 -100%
1924 181 0.000075999 181 -100%
1925 170 0.000072858 5 165 -94%
1926 164 0.000071432 164 -100%
1927 177 0.000076314 177 -100%
1928 169 0.000074748 169 -100%
1929 155 0.000070706 155 -100%
1930 201 0.000090407 201 -100%
1931 148 0.000070329 148 -100%
1932 153 0.000072468 153 -100%
1933 147 0.00007352 147 -100%
1934 164 0.000078967 164 -100%
1935 130 0.000062204 130 -100%
1936 149 0.000071718 149 -100%
1937 135 0.00006336 135 -100%
1938 167 0.000075478 167 -100%
1939 148 0.000067168 148 -100%
1940 156 0.000067747 156 -100%
1941 145 0.000059513 145 -100%
1942 161 0.000058935 161 -100%
1943 168 0.00005952 168 -100%
1944 153 0.000056876 153 -100%
1945 135 0.000050888 135 -100%
1946 156 0.000048822 156 -100%
1947 160 0.000044416 160 -100%
1948 147 0.000042578 147 -100%
1949 167 0.000047923 167 -100%
1950 145 0.000041389 145 -100%
1951 135 0.000036648 135 -100%
1952 138 0.000036335 138 -100%
1953 140 0.000036329 140 -100%
1954 93 0.000023363 93 -100%
1955 125 0.000031133 125 -100%
1956 115 0.000027892 115 -100%
1957 110 0.000026177 110 -100%
1958 97 0.000023465 97 -100%
1959 89 0.000021405 89 -100%
1960 65 0.000015648 65 -100%
1961 69 0.000016657 69 -100%
1962 78 0.000019329 78 -100%
1963 62 0.000015664 62 -100%
1964 77 0.000019807 77 -100%
1965 65 0.000017929 65 -100%
1966 53 0.000015249 53 -100%
1967 52 0.000015317 52 -100%
1968 48 0.000014208 48 -100%
1969 45 0.000012948 45 -100%
1970 63 0.000017468 63 -100%
1971 51 0.000014859 51 -100%
1972 41 0.000013045 41 -100%
1973 42 0.000013922 42 -100%
1974 39 0.000012829 39 -100%
1975 39 0.000012916 39 -100%
1976 39 0.000012853 39 -100%
1977 34 0.000010704 34 -100%
1978 32 0.000010082 32 -100%
1979 45 0.000013526 45 -100%
1980 44 0.000012774 44 -100%
1981 36 0.000010407 36 -100%
1982 30 0.000008552 30 -100%
1983 24 0.00000693 24 -100%
1984 25 0.000007166 25 -100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 -100%
1986 20 0.000005623 20 -100%
1987 31 0.000008598 31 -100%
1988 30 0.000008119 30 -100%
1989 23 0.000005983 23 -100%
1990 32 0.000008096 32 -100%
1991 27 0.000006931 27 -100%
1992 23 0.000005988 23 -100%
1993 24 0.000006366 24 -100%
1994 17 0.000004573 17 -100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 -100%
1996 21 0.000005758 21 -100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 -100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 -100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 -100%
2000 18 0.000004762 18 -100%
2001 17 0.000004541 17 -100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 -100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 -100%
2004 14 0.000003664 14 -100%
2005 19 0.000004942 19 -100%
2006 23 0.000005814 23 -100%
2007 21 0.000005253 21 -100%
2008 21 0.000005343 21 -100%
2009 24 0.000006282 24 -100%
2010 30 0.000008117 30 -100%
2011 22 0.000006015 22 -100%
2012 39 0.000010663 39 -100%
2013 43 0.000011795 43 -100%
2014 47 0.000012681 47 -100%
2015 54 0.000014591 54 -100%
2016 59 0.000016082 59 -100%
2017 84 0.000023489 84 -100%
2018 82 0.000023323 82 -100%
2019 92 0.000026506 92 -100%
2020 96 0.000028738 96 -100%
2021 160 0.000047226 160 -100%
2022 171 0.000050545 171 -100%
2023 179 0.000054059 179 -100%
2024 152 0.000045666 152 -100%

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