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How popular is “Bretton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bretton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bretton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bretton” 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
1958 11 0.000002661 11 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 -100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 -100%
1969 14 0.000004028 14 -100%
1970 15 0.000004159 15 -100%
1971 15 0.00000437 15 -100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 -100%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 -100%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 -100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 -100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 -100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 24 0.000006879 24 -100%
1985 29 0.000008125 29 -100%
1986 27 0.00000759 27 -100%
1987 36 0.000009984 36 -100%
1988 26 0.000007036 26 -100%
1989 26 0.000006763 26 -100%
1990 23 0.000005819 23 -100%
1991 27 0.000006931 27 -100%
1992 32 0.000008331 32 -100%
1993 28 0.000007427 28 -100%
1994 29 0.000007801 29 -100%
1995 36 0.00000983 36 -100%
1996 25 0.000006855 25 -100%
1997 28 0.000007723 28 -100%
1998 22 0.000005981 22 -100%
1999 32 0.000008663 32 -100%
2000 29 0.000007672 29 -100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 -100%
2002 23 0.000006153 23 -100%
2003 22 0.000005786 22 -100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 -100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 -100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 -100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 -100%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 -100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 -100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 -100%
2011 29 0.000007928 29 -100%
2012 23 0.000006289 23 -100%
2013 21 0.00000576 21 -100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 -100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 -100%
2017 12 0.000003356 12 -100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 -100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 -100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 -100%
2022 8 0.000002365 8 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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