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How popular is “Bret” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bret” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bret” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bret” 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
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1940 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 -100%
1943 12 0.000004251 12 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 -100%
1946 12 0.000003756 12 -100%
1947 28 0.000007773 28 -100%
1948 19 0.000005503 19 -100%
1949 25 0.000007174 25 -100%
1950 34 0.000009705 34 -100%
1951 25 0.000006787 25 -100%
1952 48 0.000012638 48 -100%
1953 55 0.000014272 55 -100%
1954 82 0.000020599 82 -100%
1955 91 0.000022665 91 -100%
1956 81 0.000019646 81 -100%
1957 194 0.000046167 194 -100%
1958 1514 0.00036624 1514 -100%
1959 1839 0.000442281 1839 -100%
1960 1242 0.000299002 1242 -100%
1961 740 0.000178645 740 -100%
1962 786 0.000194778 786 -100%
1963 787 0.000198828 787 -100%
1964 787 0.000202438 787 -100%
1965 743 0.00020494 743 -100%
1966 860 0.000247435 860 -100%
1967 836 0.000246252 836 -100%
1968 846 0.000250413 5 841 -99%
1969 791 0.000227605 791 -100%
1970 878 0.000243448 7 871 -98%
1971 740 0.000215595 6 734 -98%
1972 633 0.0002014 5 628 -98%
1973 541 0.000179324 541 -100%
1974 509 0.000167434 509 -100%
1975 462 0.000153011 462 -100%
1976 505 0.00016643 505 -100%
1977 415 0.000130647 415 -100%
1978 381 0.000120043 381 -100%
1979 490 0.00014728 490 -100%
1980 415 0.000120482 5 410 -98%
1981 544 0.000157254 12 532 -96%
1982 1104 0.000314713 6 1098 -99%
1983 514 0.000148412 10 504 -96%
1984 463 0.000132712 5 458 -98%
1985 513 0.000143733 11 502 -96%
1986 522 0.00014675 13 509 -95%
1987 550 0.00015254 13 537 -95%
1988 497 0.000134505 10 487 -96%
1989 550 0.000143063 5 545 -98%
1990 551 0.000139406 5 546 -98%
1991 516 0.000132469 516 -100%
1992 463 0.000120533 463 -100%
1993 414 0.000109806 9 405 -96%
1994 433 0.000116471 19 414 -91%
1995 402 0.000109771 14 388 -93%
1996 362 0.000099254 12 350 -93%
1997 295 0.000081363 10 285 -93%
1998 314 0.000085368 9 305 -94%
1999 341 0.000092315 6 335 -96%
2000 282 0.000074605 8 274 -94%
2001 246 0.000065716 246 -100%
2002 196 0.00005243 7 189 -93%
2003 171 0.000044973 171 -100%
2004 160 0.000041875 160 -100%
2005 158 0.000041094 7 151 -91%
2006 99 0.000025024 99 -100%
2007 116 0.000029017 7 109 -88%
2008 123 0.000031292 123 -100%
2009 96 0.00002513 96 -100%
2010 89 0.000024082 89 -100%
2011 78 0.000021324 6 72 -85%
2012 42 0.000011484 42 -100%
2013 39 0.000010698 39 -100%
2014 45 0.000012141 45 -100%
2015 33 0.000008917 33 -100%
2016 33 0.000008995 33 -100%
2017 23 0.000006431 23 -100%
2018 34 0.00000967 34 -100%
2019 21 0.00000605 21 -100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 -100%
2021 22 0.000006494 22 -100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 -100%
2023 27 0.000008154 27 -100%
2024 21 0.000006309 21 -100%

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