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How popular is “Brent” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brent” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brent” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brent” 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
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1915 17 0.000009277 17 -100%
1916 18 0.000009305 18 -100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 -100%
1918 19 0.000008751 19 -100%
1919 21 0.000009951 21 -100%
1920 22 0.000009723 22 -100%
1921 21 0.000008995 21 -100%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 -100%
1923 15 0.000006515 15 -100%
1924 18 0.000007558 18 -100%
1925 19 0.000008143 19 -100%
1926 21 0.000009147 21 -100%
1927 26 0.00001121 26 -100%
1928 19 0.000008404 19 -100%
1929 24 0.000010948 24 -100%
1930 29 0.000013044 29 -100%
1931 36 0.000017107 36 -100%
1932 32 0.000015157 32 -100%
1933 46 0.000023006 46 -100%
1934 45 0.000021668 45 -100%
1935 51 0.000024403 51 -100%
1936 65 0.000031286 65 -100%
1937 91 0.00004271 91 -100%
1938 114 0.000051524 114 -100%
1939 185 0.00008396 185 -100%
1940 288 0.000125071 288 -100%
1941 289 0.000118616 289 -100%
1942 315 0.000115308 315 -100%
1943 350 0.000124001 350 -100%
1944 315 0.000117097 315 -100%
1945 269 0.000101398 269 -100%
1946 506 0.000158357 506 -100%
1947 675 0.000187379 6 669 -98%
1948 645 0.00018682 645 -100%
1949 738 0.000211778 738 -100%
1950 914 0.000260893 6 908 -99%
1951 948 0.000257347 6 942 -99%
1952 1081 0.000284623 1081 -100%
1953 1201 0.000311653 1201 -100%
1954 1239 0.000311251 7 1232 -99%
1955 1382 0.000344202 1382 -100%
1956 1457 0.00035338 1457 -100%
1957 1788 0.000425497 8 1780 -99%
1958 2078 0.000502673 6 2072 -99%
1959 2287 0.000550025 7 2280 -99%
1960 2268 0.000546004 9 2259 -99%
1961 2563 0.000618738 8 2555 -99%
1962 2564 0.000635381 6 2558 -100%
1963 2821 0.000712698 7 2814 -100%
1964 2746 0.000706347 2746 -100%
1965 2418 0.000666952 8 2410 -99%
1966 2693 0.000774818 5 2688 -100%
1967 2877 0.000847448 16 2861 -99%
1968 2927 0.000866383 8 2919 -99%
1969 3366 0.000968543 11 3355 -99%
1970 4301 0.001192564 31 4270 -99%
1971 4073 0.001186649 20 4053 -99%
1972 3552 0.001130133 22 3530 -99%
1973 3304 0.001095169 17 3287 -99%
1974 3438 0.001130921 25 3413 -99%
1975 3381 0.001119761 17 3364 -99%
1976 3425 0.001128761 20 3405 -99%
1977 3443 0.001083899 20 3423 -99%
1978 3202 0.001008863 21 3181 -99%
1979 3474 0.001044184 17 3457 -99%
1980 3564 0.001034691 26 3538 -99%
1981 3392 0.000980524 22 3370 -99%
1982 3346 0.00095383 25 3321 -99%
1983 3050 0.000880653 20 3030 -99%
1984 3205 0.000918666 19 3186 -99%
1985 3345 0.000937208 24 3321 -99%
1986 3078 0.000865317 17 3061 -99%
1987 2866 0.000794872 31 2835 -98%
1988 2885 0.000780776 16 2869 -99%
1989 2761 0.000718179 12 2749 -99%
1990 2618 0.000662369 10 2608 -99%
1991 2199 0.000564532 6 2193 -99%
1992 1958 0.000509727 1958 -100%
1993 1801 0.000477683 1801 -100%
1994 1630 0.000438449 1630 -100%
1995 1586 0.000433078 1586 -100%
1996 1342 0.000367954 5 1337 -99%
1997 1254 0.00034586 1254 -100%
1998 1202 0.00032679 1202 -100%
1999 1055 0.000285609 1055 -100%
2000 900 0.000238101 900 -100%
2001 847 0.000226266 847 -100%
2002 727 0.000194474 727 -100%
2003 685 0.000180153 685 -100%
2004 646 0.000169069 646 -100%
2005 562 0.00014617 562 -100%
2006 544 0.000137506 544 -100%
2007 522 0.000130576 522 -100%
2008 471 0.000119827 471 -100%
2009 399 0.000104445 399 -100%
2010 368 0.000099574 368 -100%
2011 287 0.000078463 287 -100%
2012 318 0.000086948 318 -100%
2013 289 0.000079272 289 -100%
2014 263 0.000070959 263 -100%
2015 253 0.000068362 253 -100%
2016 211 0.000057514 211 -100%
2017 201 0.000056205 201 -100%
2018 163 0.000046361 163 -100%
2019 182 0.000052435 182 -100%
2020 145 0.000043406 145 -100%
2021 154 0.000045455 154 -100%
2022 138 0.000040791 138 -100%
2023 125 0.000037751 125 -100%
2024 102 0.000030644 102 -100%

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