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How popular is “Briggs” in the USA?

Number of people named “Briggs” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Briggs” by birth year

This chart shows how “Briggs” 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
1927 10 0.000004312 10 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 -100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 -100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 -100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 -100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 -100%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 -100%
1998 24 0.000006525 24 -100%
1999 33 0.000008934 33 -100%
2000 41 0.000010847 41 -100%
2001 38 0.000010151 38 -100%
2002 24 0.00000642 24 -100%
2003 42 0.000011046 42 -100%
2004 45 0.000011777 45 -100%
2005 47 0.000012224 47 -100%
2006 60 0.000015166 60 -100%
2007 74 0.000018511 74 -100%
2008 106 0.000026967 106 -100%
2009 146 0.000038218 146 -100%
2010 154 0.00004167 154 -100%
2011 182 0.000049757 182 -100%
2012 208 0.000056872 208 -100%
2013 234 0.000064186 6 228 -95%
2014 269 0.000072578 269 -100%
2015 334 0.000090248 10 324 -94%
2016 397 0.000108213 397 -100%
2017 429 0.00011996 5 424 -98%
2018 415 0.000118035 8 407 -96%
2019 557 0.000160476 5 552 -98%
2020 684 0.000204755 9 675 -97%
2021 882 0.000260334 15 867 -97%
2022 833 0.000246221 9 824 -98%
2023 997 0.0003011 11 986 -98%
2024 1069 0.000321166 12 1057 -98%

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