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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brigham” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brigham” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brigham” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brigham” 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%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 -100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 -100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 -100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 -100%
1971 14 0.000004079 14 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 15 0.000004972 15 -100%
1974 20 0.000006579 20 -100%
1975 20 0.000006624 20 -100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 -100%
1977 29 0.00000913 29 -100%
1978 22 0.000006932 22 -100%
1979 21 0.000006312 21 -100%
1980 33 0.00000958 33 -100%
1981 32 0.00000925 32 -100%
1982 30 0.000008552 30 -100%
1983 19 0.000005486 19 -100%
1984 25 0.000007166 25 -100%
1985 21 0.000005884 21 -100%
1986 20 0.000005623 20 -100%
1987 19 0.00000527 19 -100%
1988 24 0.000006495 24 -100%
1989 26 0.000006763 26 -100%
1990 20 0.00000506 20 -100%
1991 24 0.000006161 24 -100%
1992 21 0.000005467 21 -100%
1993 21 0.00000557 21 -100%
1994 33 0.000008877 33 -100%
1995 34 0.000009284 34 -100%
1996 34 0.000009322 34 -100%
1997 63 0.000017376 63 -100%
1998 61 0.000016584 61 -100%
1999 55 0.00001489 55 -100%
2000 73 0.000019313 73 -100%
2001 88 0.000023508 88 -100%
2002 87 0.000023273 87 -100%
2003 71 0.000018673 71 -100%
2004 83 0.000021723 83 -100%
2005 80 0.000020807 80 -100%
2006 92 0.000023255 92 -100%
2007 97 0.000024264 97 -100%
2008 98 0.000024932 98 -100%
2009 95 0.000024868 95 -100%
2010 104 0.000028141 104 -100%
2011 137 0.000037454 137 -100%
2012 130 0.000035545 130 -100%
2013 130 0.000035659 130 -100%
2014 111 0.000029948 111 -100%
2015 101 0.000027291 101 -100%
2016 120 0.000032709 120 -100%
2017 110 0.000030759 110 -100%
2018 105 0.000029864 105 -100%
2019 96 0.000027658 96 -100%
2020 94 0.000028139 94 -100%
2021 95 0.000028041 95 -100%
2022 63 0.000018622 63 -100%
2023 67 0.000020234 67 -100%
2024 66 0.000019829 66 -100%

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