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How popular is “Bright” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bright” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bright” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bright” 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
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 -100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 18 0.000004921 5 13 -44%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 -100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 -100%
2014 20 0.000005396 20 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 8 0.000002181 8 -100%
2017 25 0.000006991 25 -100%
2018 27 0.000007679 5 22 -63%
2019 29 0.000008355 5 24 -66%
2020 29 0.000008681 5 24 -66%
2021 27 0.000007969 9 18 -33%
2022 25 0.00000739 7 18 -44%
2023 24 0.000007248 24 -100%
2024 27 0.000008112 27 -100%

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