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How popular is “Brayton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brayton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brayton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brayton” 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
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 13 0.000003754 13 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 -100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 -100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
1989 18 0.000004682 18 -100%
1990 20 0.00000506 20 -100%
1991 21 0.000005391 21 -100%
1992 23 0.000005988 23 -100%
1993 35 0.000009283 35 -100%
1994 49 0.00001318 5 44 -80%
1995 52 0.000014199 52 -100%
1996 92 0.000025225 6 86 -87%
1997 87 0.000023995 87 -100%
1998 70 0.000019031 70 -100%
1999 75 0.000020304 75 -100%
2000 88 0.000023281 88 -100%
2001 82 0.000021905 5 77 -88%
2002 81 0.000021668 81 -100%
2003 84 0.000022092 84 -100%
2004 73 0.000019105 73 -100%
2005 93 0.000024188 93 -100%
2006 76 0.00001921 6 70 -84%
2007 84 0.000021012 84 -100%
2008 77 0.00001959 77 -100%
2009 85 0.00002225 85 -100%
2010 92 0.000024894 92 -100%
2011 86 0.000023511 86 -100%
2012 106 0.000028983 106 -100%
2013 84 0.000023041 84 -100%
2014 100 0.000026981 100 -100%
2015 81 0.000021886 81 -100%
2016 67 0.000018263 67 -100%
2017 53 0.00001482 53 -100%
2018 51 0.000014506 51 -100%
2019 53 0.00001527 53 -100%
2020 51 0.000015267 51 -100%
2021 47 0.000013873 47 -100%
2022 54 0.000015962 54 -100%
2023 26 0.000007852 26 -100%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 -100%

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