Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Bowden” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bowden” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bowden” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bowden” 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
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 -100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 -100%
2007 18 0.000004503 18 -100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 -100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 -100%
2012 21 0.000005742 21 -100%
2013 20 0.000005486 20 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 -100%
2016 32 0.000008722 32 -100%
2017 44 0.000012304 44 -100%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 -100%
2019 28 0.000008067 28 -100%
2020 37 0.000011076 37 -100%
2021 39 0.000011511 39 -100%
2022 36 0.000010641 36 -100%
2023 47 0.000014194 47 -100%
2024 51 0.000015322 51 -100%

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