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How popular is “Calvin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Calvin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Calvin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Calvin” 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
1880 134 0.000665065 134 -100%
1881 138 0.000716184 138 -100%
1882 123 0.000555222 123 -100%
1883 122 0.000562352 122 -100%
1884 139 0.000570933 139 -100%
1885 119 0.000494075 119 -100%
1886 109 0.000426922 109 -100%
1887 122 0.000493145 122 -100%
1888 123 0.00041072 123 -100%
1889 107 0.000370311 107 -100%
1890 116 0.000384869 116 -100%
1891 104 0.000362783 104 -100%
1892 124 0.000370842 124 -100%
1893 103 0.000316706 103 -100%
1894 95 0.000280492 95 -100%
1895 130 0.000370349 130 -100%
1896 98 0.000274138 98 -100%
1897 103 0.000296867 103 -100%
1898 121 0.000317206 121 -100%
1899 108 0.000318364 108 -100%
1900 128 0.000284281 128 -100%
1901 98 0.000283391 98 -100%
1902 130 0.000336149 130 -100%
1903 106 0.000278069 106 -100%
1904 118 0.000292452 118 -100%
1905 141 0.000332608 141 -100%
1906 123 0.000287081 123 -100%
1907 136 0.000292228 136 -100%
1908 135 0.000276272 135 -100%
1909 176 0.000344272 176 -100%
1910 201 0.000340268 201 -100%
1911 213 0.000330603 213 -100%
1912 375 0.000379531 375 -100%
1913 440 0.000386946 440 -100%
1914 536 0.000378439 5 531 -98%
1915 701 0.000382553 7 694 -98%
1916 771 0.00039857 5 766 -99%
1917 785 0.00039118 785 -100%
1918 882 0.000406244 8 874 -98%
1919 840 0.000398058 6 834 -99%
1920 1107 0.000489251 9 1098 -98%
1921 1287 0.000551295 11 1276 -98%
1922 1292 0.0005644 10 1282 -98%
1923 2418 0.001050172 10 2408 -99%
1924 4941 0.002074647 22 4919 -99%
1925 4321 0.001851882 20 4301 -99%
1926 3037 0.00132279 23 3014 -98%
1927 2716 0.001171014 22 2694 -98%
1928 2146 0.000949164 18 2128 -98%
1929 1683 0.000767736 18 1665 -98%
1930 1632 0.000734048 14 1618 -98%
1931 1455 0.000691412 12 1443 -98%
1932 1465 0.000693888 11 1454 -98%
1933 1500 0.000750207 11 1489 -99%
1934 1324 0.000637514 5 1319 -99%
1935 1328 0.000635437 7 1321 -99%
1936 1363 0.000656052 11 1352 -98%
1937 1344 0.000630788 11 1333 -98%
1938 1466 0.000662577 12 1454 -98%
1939 1407 0.000638546 13 1394 -98%
1940 1481 0.000643162 9 1472 -99%
1941 1523 0.000625096 13 1510 -98%
1942 1584 0.000579834 6 1578 -99%
1943 1767 0.000626028 7 1760 -99%
1944 1761 0.000654628 10 1751 -99%
1945 1808 0.000681516 11 1797 -99%
1946 1984 0.000620911 8 1976 -99%
1947 2442 0.000677896 10 2432 -99%
1948 2409 0.000697752 11 2398 -99%
1949 2579 0.000740076 12 2567 -99%
1950 2754 0.000786103 12 2742 -99%
1951 2859 0.000776114 16 2843 -99%
1952 2985 0.000785939 14 2971 -99%
1953 2968 0.00077018 18 2950 -99%
1954 3028 0.000760669 21 3007 -99%
1955 3165 0.000788278 16 3149 -99%
1956 3365 0.000816146 19 3346 -99%
1957 3419 0.000813632 24 3395 -99%
1958 3149 0.00076175 30 3119 -98%
1959 3049 0.000733287 16 3033 -99%
1960 2940 0.000707783 28 2912 -98%
1961 2883 0.00069599 19 2864 -99%
1962 2421 0.000599945 17 2404 -99%
1963 2430 0.000613915 24 2406 -98%
1964 2281 0.000586737 30 2251 -97%
1965 2065 0.000569585 20 2045 -98%
1966 1774 0.000510407 14 1760 -98%
1967 1802 0.000530797 20 1782 -98%
1968 1781 0.000527171 24 1757 -97%
1969 1725 0.000496357 18 1707 -98%
1970 1749 0.000484956 15 1734 -98%
1971 1609 0.000468774 19 1590 -98%
1972 1465 0.000466116 15 1450 -98%
1973 1361 0.000451127 12 1349 -98%
1974 1308 0.000430263 13 1295 -98%
1975 1298 0.000429888 14 1284 -98%
1976 1252 0.000412616 21 1231 -97%
1977 1308 0.000411775 23 1285 -96%
1978 1276 0.000402033 14 1262 -98%
1979 1359 0.000408476 23 1336 -97%
1980 1338 0.000388445 13 1325 -98%
1981 1470 0.000424932 12 1458 -98%
1982 1495 0.000426173 18 1477 -98%
1983 1443 0.00041665 14 1429 -98%
1984 1455 0.000417054 15 1440 -98%
1985 1539 0.0004312 19 1520 -98%
1986 1683 0.000473141 17 1666 -98%
1987 1809 0.000501718 19 1790 -98%
1988 1824 0.000493634 13 1811 -99%
1989 1883 0.000489797 14 1869 -99%
1990 1791 0.000453133 8 1783 -99%
1991 1716 0.000440535 7 1709 -99%
1992 1621 0.000421996 7 1614 -99%
1993 1746 0.000463096 1746 -100%
1994 1566 0.000421234 1566 -100%
1995 1725 0.000471034 6 1719 -99%
1996 1765 0.000483934 6 1759 -99%
1997 1707 0.000470799 1707 -100%
1998 1638 0.000445326 1638 -100%
1999 1622 0.000439106 1622 -100%
2000 1681 0.00044472 1681 -100%
2001 1618 0.000432229 5 1613 -99%
2002 1566 0.000418908 5 1561 -99%
2003 1566 0.000411854 1566 -100%
2004 1597 0.000417962 1597 -100%
2005 1619 0.000421083 1619 -100%
2006 1655 0.000418332 7 1648 -99%
2007 1618 0.000404734 1618 -100%
2008 1630 0.000414688 1630 -100%
2009 1578 0.00041307 1578 -100%
2010 1662 0.000449707 1662 -100%
2011 1709 0.000467222 1709 -100%
2012 1966 0.000537545 1966 -100%
2013 2072 0.000568346 7 2065 -99%
2014 2342 0.000631884 6 2336 -99%
2015 2439 0.000659027 2439 -100%
2016 2801 0.000763486 7 2794 -100%
2017 2703 0.000755831 2703 -100%
2018 2760 0.000785006 2760 -100%
2019 2647 0.000762619 2647 -100%
2020 2543 0.000761246 8 2535 -99%
2021 2597 0.00076654 6 2591 -100%
2022 2597 0.000767631 5 2592 -100%
2023 2410 0.000727834 2410 -100%
2024 2573 0.000773021 5 2568 -100%

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