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How popular is “Bray” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bray” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bray” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bray” 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
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 -100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 -100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 -100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 -100%
1997 20 0.000005516 6 14 -40%
1998 16 0.00000435 16 -100%
1999 11 0.000002978 11 -100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 -100%
2003 14 0.000003682 14 -100%
2004 13 0.000003402 13 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 -100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 -100%
2008 18 0.000004579 18 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 -100%
2011 25 0.000006835 7 18 -44%
2012 21 0.000005742 21 -100%
2013 26 0.000007132 26 -100%
2014 40 0.000010792 40 -100%
2015 32 0.000008647 6 26 -63%
2016 30 0.000008177 9 21 -40%
2017 20 0.000005593 20 -100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 -100%
2019 39 0.000011236 9 30 -54%
2020 40 0.000011974 6 34 -70%
2021 40 0.000011807 5 35 -75%
2022 40 0.000011823 8 32 -60%
2023 35 0.00001057 35 -100%
2024 46 0.00001382 46 -100%

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