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How popular is “Brighton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brighton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brighton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brighton” 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
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 100%
1988 17 0.000004601 7 10 -18%
1989 11 0.000002861 5 6 -9%
1990 13 0.000003289 8 5 23%
1991 18 0.000004621 6 12 -33%
1992 13 0.000003384 5 8 -23%
1993 16 0.000004244 5 11 -38%
1994 37 0.000009953 17 20 -8%
1995 52 0.000014199 23 29 -12%
1996 35 0.000009596 11 24 -37%
1997 49 0.000013514 16 33 -35%
1998 70 0.000019031 24 46 -31%
1999 68 0.000018409 17 51 -50%
2000 62 0.000016403 29 33 -6%
2001 66 0.000017631 28 38 -15%
2002 71 0.000018993 32 39 -10%
2003 94 0.000024722 29 65 -38%
2004 118 0.000030883 31 87 -47%
2005 158 0.000041094 45 113 -43%
2006 158 0.000039937 38 120 -52%
2007 175 0.000043775 57 118 -35%
2008 175 0.000044522 47 128 -46%
2009 196 0.000051307 72 124 -27%
2010 182 0.000049246 62 120 -32%
2011 212 0.000057958 74 138 -30%
2012 233 0.000063707 76 157 -35%
2013 242 0.00006638 95 147 -21%
2014 251 0.000067721 98 153 -22%
2015 255 0.000068902 103 152 -19%
2016 226 0.000061602 101 125 -11%
2017 236 0.000065992 142 94 20%
2018 249 0.000070821 131 118 5%
2019 231 0.000066553 123 108 6%
2020 225 0.000067354 130 95 16%
2021 234 0.000069068 109 125 -7%
2022 204 0.000060299 100 104 -2%
2023 169 0.000051039 85 84 1%
2024 166 0.000049872 88 78 6%

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