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How popular is “Brighten” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brighten” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brighten” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brighten” 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
2000 7 0.000001852 7 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 10 0.000002501 5 5 0%
2008 13 0.000003307 7 6 8%
2009 13 0.000003403 5 8 -23%
2010 22 0.000005953 7 15 -36%
2012 11 0.000003008 6 5 9%
2013 13 0.000003566 5 8 -23%
2014 17 0.000004587 5 12 -41%
2015 18 0.000004864 5 13 -44%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 -100%
2017 19 0.000005313 11 8 16%
2018 20 0.000005688 9 11 -10%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 -100%
2020 11 0.000003293 6 5 9%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 -100%
2022 13 0.000003843 5 8 -23%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 -100%
2024 13 0.000003906 6 7 -8%

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