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How popular is “Boyd” in the USA?

Number of people named “Boyd” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Boyd” by birth year

This chart shows how “Boyd” 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
1880 16 0.000079411 16 -100%
1881 24 0.000124554 24 -100%
1882 29 0.000130906 29 -100%
1883 21 0.000096798 21 -100%
1884 24 0.000098578 24 -100%
1885 40 0.000166076 40 -100%
1886 43 0.000168419 43 -100%
1887 26 0.000105096 26 -100%
1888 41 0.000136907 41 -100%
1889 47 0.00016266 47 -100%
1890 35 0.000116124 35 -100%
1891 29 0.000101161 29 -100%
1892 37 0.000110655 37 -100%
1893 35 0.000107618 35 -100%
1894 46 0.000135817 46 -100%
1895 31 0.000088314 31 -100%
1896 34 0.000095109 34 -100%
1897 37 0.000106641 37 -100%
1898 34 0.000089132 34 -100%
1899 53 0.000156234 53 -100%
1900 62 0.000137699 62 -100%
1901 42 0.000121453 42 -100%
1902 42 0.000108602 42 -100%
1903 41 0.000107555 41 -100%
1904 46 0.000114007 46 -100%
1905 40 0.000094357 40 -100%
1906 54 0.000126035 54 -100%
1907 54 0.000116032 54 -100%
1908 61 0.000124834 61 -100%
1909 68 0.000133014 68 -100%
1910 86 0.000145587 86 -100%
1911 85 0.000131931 85 -100%
1912 171 0.000173066 171 -100%
1913 197 0.000173246 197 -100%
1914 287 0.000202634 287 -100%
1915 335 0.000182818 335 -100%
1916 390 0.000201611 6 384 -97%
1917 388 0.000193347 388 -100%
1918 438 0.00020174 5 433 -98%
1919 426 0.000201872 11 415 -95%
1920 464 0.00020507 7 457 -97%
1921 438 0.00018762 438 -100%
1922 508 0.000221916 508 -100%
1923 429 0.000186321 429 -100%
1924 468 0.000196506 9 459 -96%
1925 501 0.000214717 8 493 -97%
1926 432 0.000188161 432 -100%
1927 449 0.000193588 9 440 -96%
1928 446 0.000197263 446 -100%
1929 460 0.000209839 460 -100%
1930 430 0.000193407 430 -100%
1931 426 0.000202434 426 -100%
1932 402 0.000190405 5 397 -98%
1933 406 0.000203056 406 -100%
1934 398 0.00019164 398 -100%
1935 351 0.000167951 351 -100%
1936 356 0.000171353 356 -100%
1937 419 0.000196652 419 -100%
1938 413 0.00018666 413 -100%
1939 361 0.000163835 361 -100%
1940 374 0.000162419 374 -100%
1941 412 0.0001691 412 -100%
1942 393 0.00014386 393 -100%
1943 405 0.000143487 405 -100%
1944 350 0.000130108 5 345 -97%
1945 318 0.000119868 318 -100%
1946 362 0.000113291 362 -100%
1947 427 0.000118535 427 -100%
1948 354 0.000102534 354 -100%
1949 345 0.000099002 345 -100%
1950 342 0.000097621 342 -100%
1951 365 0.000099084 365 -100%
1952 397 0.000104529 397 -100%
1953 390 0.000101203 390 -100%
1954 343 0.000086166 343 -100%
1955 370 0.000092153 370 -100%
1956 377 0.000091437 377 -100%
1957 387 0.000092096 387 -100%
1958 365 0.000088294 365 -100%
1959 378 0.000090909 378 -100%
1960 370 0.000089075 370 -100%
1961 356 0.000085943 356 -100%
1962 407 0.000100858 407 -100%
1963 339 0.000085645 339 -100%
1964 337 0.000086686 337 -100%
1965 285 0.000078611 285 -100%
1966 265 0.000076245 265 -100%
1967 252 0.000074229 252 -100%
1968 271 0.000080215 271 -100%
1969 251 0.000072224 251 -100%
1970 273 0.000075696 273 -100%
1971 185 0.000053899 185 -100%
1972 154 0.000048998 154 -100%
1973 148 0.000049057 148 -100%
1974 151 0.000049671 151 -100%
1975 137 0.000045373 137 -100%
1976 111 0.000036582 111 -100%
1977 115 0.000036203 115 -100%
1978 102 0.000032137 102 -100%
1979 102 0.000030658 102 -100%
1980 98 0.000028451 98 -100%
1981 96 0.000027751 96 -100%
1982 100 0.000028507 100 -100%
1983 68 0.000019634 68 -100%
1984 76 0.000021784 76 -100%
1985 79 0.000022134 79 -100%
1986 67 0.000018836 67 -100%
1987 54 0.000014977 54 -100%
1988 54 0.000014614 54 -100%
1989 50 0.000013006 50 -100%
1990 64 0.000016192 64 -100%
1991 57 0.000014633 57 -100%
1992 57 0.000014839 57 -100%
1993 55 0.000014588 55 -100%
1994 58 0.000015601 58 -100%
1995 53 0.000014472 53 -100%
1996 51 0.000013983 51 -100%
1997 63 0.000017376 63 -100%
1998 45 0.000012234 45 -100%
1999 41 0.000011099 41 -100%
2000 41 0.000010847 41 -100%
2001 40 0.000010686 40 -100%
2002 51 0.000013643 51 -100%
2003 43 0.000011309 43 -100%
2004 44 0.000011516 44 -100%
2005 43 0.000011184 43 -100%
2006 38 0.000009605 38 -100%
2007 63 0.000015759 63 -100%
2008 51 0.000012975 51 -100%
2009 43 0.000011256 43 -100%
2010 49 0.000013259 49 -100%
2011 44 0.000012029 44 -100%
2012 73 0.00001996 73 -100%
2013 75 0.000020572 75 -100%
2014 99 0.000026711 99 -100%
2015 81 0.000021886 81 -100%
2016 99 0.000026985 99 -100%
2017 122 0.000034114 122 -100%
2018 117 0.000033277 117 -100%
2019 97 0.000027946 97 -100%
2020 109 0.000032629 109 -100%
2021 106 0.000031287 106 -100%
2022 107 0.000031627 107 -100%
2023 67 0.000020234 67 -100%
2024 65 0.000019528 65 -100%

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