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How popular is “Bracken” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bracken” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bracken” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bracken” 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
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 15 0.000003851 15 -100%
1992 15 0.000003905 15 -100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 -100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 -100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 -100%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 -100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 -100%
1998 31 0.000008428 31 -100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 -100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 -100%
2001 21 0.00000561 21 -100%
2002 23 0.000006153 23 -100%
2003 15 0.000003945 15 -100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 -100%
2007 23 0.000005753 23 -100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 -100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 -100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 -100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2012 23 0.000006289 23 -100%
2013 14 0.00000384 14 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 -100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 -100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 -100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 -100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%

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