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How popular is “Bradford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bradford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bradford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bradford” 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 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1891 9 0.000031395 9 -100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 -100%
1896 13 0.000036365 13 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 9 0.000023594 9 -100%
1900 13 0.000028872 13 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1902 9 0.000023272 9 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 -100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 -100%
1909 15 0.000029341 15 -100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 -100%
1911 22 0.000034147 22 -100%
1912 43 0.00004352 43 -100%
1913 38 0.000033418 38 -100%
1914 50 0.000035302 50 -100%
1915 69 0.000037655 69 -100%
1916 72 0.000037221 72 -100%
1917 72 0.000035879 72 -100%
1918 70 0.000032242 70 -100%
1919 69 0.000032698 69 -100%
1920 74 0.000032705 74 -100%
1921 85 0.00003641 85 -100%
1922 71 0.000031016 71 -100%
1923 73 0.000031705 73 -100%
1924 76 0.000031911 76 -100%
1925 76 0.000032572 76 -100%
1926 98 0.000042685 98 -100%
1927 96 0.000041391 96 -100%
1928 85 0.000037595 85 -100%
1929 84 0.000038318 84 -100%
1930 88 0.000039581 88 -100%
1931 87 0.000041342 87 -100%
1932 86 0.000040733 86 -100%
1933 82 0.000041011 82 -100%
1934 96 0.000046225 96 -100%
1935 92 0.000044021 92 -100%
1936 102 0.000049096 102 -100%
1937 130 0.000061014 130 -100%
1938 107 0.00004836 107 -100%
1939 128 0.000058091 128 -100%
1940 126 0.000054719 126 -100%
1941 135 0.000055409 135 -100%
1942 159 0.000058203 159 -100%
1943 173 0.000061292 173 -100%
1944 191 0.000071002 191 -100%
1945 184 0.000069358 184 -100%
1946 251 0.000078553 251 -100%
1947 327 0.000090775 327 -100%
1948 376 0.000108906 376 -100%
1949 496 0.000142333 496 -100%
1950 576 0.000164414 576 -100%
1951 575 0.000156091 575 -100%
1952 656 0.000172722 656 -100%
1953 780 0.000202406 780 -100%
1954 773 0.000194187 773 -100%
1955 704 0.000175339 5 699 -99%
1956 720 0.000174629 720 -100%
1957 675 0.000160632 675 -100%
1958 621 0.000150221 621 -100%
1959 617 0.000148389 617 -100%
1960 668 0.000160816 668 -100%
1961 579 0.000139777 579 -100%
1962 534 0.00013233 534 -100%
1963 611 0.000154363 611 -100%
1964 602 0.000154851 602 -100%
1965 581 0.000160256 581 -100%
1966 525 0.000151051 525 -100%
1967 563 0.000165837 5 558 -98%
1968 541 0.000160134 6 535 -98%
1969 601 0.000172934 601 -100%
1970 612 0.000169693 612 -100%
1971 570 0.000166067 570 -100%
1972 469 0.000149221 469 -100%
1973 494 0.000163745 494 -100%
1974 602 0.000198026 602 -100%
1975 563 0.000186461 8 555 -97%
1976 598 0.00019708 5 593 -98%
1977 608 0.000191406 5 603 -98%
1978 599 0.000188729 599 -100%
1979 614 0.000184551 614 -100%
1980 630 0.0001829 630 -100%
1981 599 0.000173153 599 -100%
1982 561 0.000159922 561 -100%
1983 480 0.000138595 480 -100%
1984 474 0.000135865 474 -100%
1985 453 0.000126922 453 -100%
1986 387 0.000108797 387 -100%
1987 446 0.000123696 5 441 -98%
1988 368 0.000099593 368 -100%
1989 353 0.000091821 353 -100%
1990 304 0.000076914 304 -100%
1991 277 0.000071112 277 -100%
1992 270 0.000070289 270 -100%
1993 267 0.000070817 267 -100%
1994 243 0.000065364 243 -100%
1995 216 0.000058982 216 -100%
1996 211 0.000057853 211 -100%
1997 177 0.000048817 177 -100%
1998 176 0.000047849 176 -100%
1999 151 0.000040879 151 -100%
2000 123 0.000032541 123 -100%
2001 103 0.000027515 103 -100%
2002 125 0.000033438 125 -100%
2003 102 0.000026826 102 -100%
2004 99 0.00002591 99 -100%
2005 97 0.000025229 97 -100%
2006 95 0.000024013 95 -100%
2007 99 0.000024764 99 -100%
2008 57 0.000014501 57 -100%
2009 76 0.000019894 76 -100%
2010 78 0.000021105 78 -100%
2011 73 0.000019957 73 -100%
2012 81 0.000022147 81 -100%
2013 64 0.000017555 64 -100%
2014 77 0.000020775 77 -100%
2015 63 0.000017023 63 -100%
2016 68 0.000018535 68 -100%
2017 70 0.000019574 70 -100%
2018 67 0.000019056 67 -100%
2019 48 0.000013829 48 -100%
2020 50 0.000014967 50 -100%
2021 49 0.000014463 49 -100%
2022 41 0.000012119 41 -100%
2023 49 0.000014798 49 -100%
2024 41 0.000012318 41 -100%

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