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How popular is “Cannan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cannan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cannan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cannan” 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
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 -100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 8 0.000002158 8 -100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 -100%
2016 22 0.000005997 22 -100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 -100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 25 0.000007484 25 -100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 -100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 -100%
2023 13 0.000003926 13 -100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 -100%

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