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How popular is “Bowie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bowie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bowie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bowie” 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
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 -100%
2006 26 0.000006572 5 21 -62%
2007 27 0.000006754 9 18 -33%
2008 34 0.00000865 9 25 -47%
2009 33 0.000008638 14 19 -15%
2010 60 0.000016235 16 44 -47%
2011 40 0.000010936 10 30 -50%
2012 45 0.000012304 21 24 -7%
2013 69 0.000018927 43 26 25%
2014 89 0.000024013 30 59 -33%
2015 97 0.00002621 43 54 -11%
2016 210 0.000057241 76 134 -28%
2017 241 0.00006739 85 156 -29%
2018 323 0.000091868 113 210 -30%
2019 267 0.000076925 108 159 -19%
2020 290 0.000086811 114 176 -21%
2021 375 0.000110686 138 237 -26%
2022 308 0.00009104 110 198 -29%
2023 319 0.00009634 126 193 -21%
2024 265 0.000079615 98 167 -26%

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