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How popular is “Bowen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bowen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bowen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bowen” 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
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 10 0.000004606 10 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 -100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 -100%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 -100%
1980 19 0.000005516 19 -100%
1981 24 0.000006938 24 -100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 -100%
1984 18 0.000005159 18 -100%
1985 22 0.000006164 22 -100%
1986 17 0.000004779 17 -100%
1987 21 0.000005824 21 -100%
1988 13 0.000003518 13 -100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
1990 27 0.000006831 27 -100%
1991 31 0.000007958 31 -100%
1992 26 0.000006769 26 -100%
1993 26 0.000006896 26 -100%
1994 39 0.00001049 39 -100%
1995 43 0.000011742 43 -100%
1996 58 0.000015903 58 -100%
1997 92 0.000025374 92 -100%
1998 101 0.000027459 101 -100%
1999 102 0.000027613 102 -100%
2000 116 0.000030689 116 -100%
2001 105 0.000028049 105 -100%
2002 100 0.00002675 100 -100%
2003 129 0.000033927 129 -100%
2004 126 0.000032976 6 120 -90%
2005 144 0.000037453 144 -100%
2006 143 0.000036146 5 138 -93%
2007 174 0.000043525 174 -100%
2008 129 0.000032819 129 -100%
2009 133 0.000034815 5 128 -92%
2010 173 0.000046811 8 165 -91%
2011 324 0.000088578 9 315 -94%
2012 402 0.000109915 12 390 -94%
2013 438 0.000120143 8 430 -96%
2014 505 0.000136252 13 492 -95%
2015 572 0.000154557 15 557 -95%
2016 654 0.000178265 16 638 -95%
2017 682 0.000190705 22 660 -94%
2018 730 0.000207628 21 709 -94%
2019 728 0.000209742 19 709 -95%
2020 798 0.000238881 20 778 -95%
2021 919 0.000271256 30 889 -93%
2022 843 0.000249177 24 819 -94%
2023 965 0.000291435 25 940 -95%
2024 1106 0.000332282 32 1074 -94%

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