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How popular is “Carey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carey” 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 19 0.0000943 6 13 -37%
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1882 18 0.000081252 18 -100%
1883 19 0.000087579 19 -100%
1884 24 0.000098578 24 -100%
1885 13 0.000053975 13 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1887 16 0.000064675 16 -100%
1888 13 0.000043409 13 -100%
1889 15 0.000051913 15 -100%
1890 11 0.000036496 11 -100%
1891 11 0.000038371 11 -100%
1892 25 0.000074767 6 19 -52%
1893 11 0.000033823 11 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 22 0.000062674 5 17 -55%
1896 15 0.00004196 15 -100%
1897 20 0.000057644 20 -100%
1898 22 0.000057674 22 -100%
1899 19 0.000056009 6 13 -37%
1900 26 0.000057745 26 -100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 -100%
1902 17 0.000043958 5 12 -41%
1903 16 0.000041973 16 -100%
1904 17 0.000042133 17 -100%
1905 26 0.000061332 7 19 -46%
1906 21 0.000049014 6 15 -43%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 -100%
1908 17 0.00003479 17 -100%
1909 13 0.000025429 13 -100%
1910 31 0.000052479 6 25 -61%
1911 14 0.00002173 14 -100%
1912 43 0.00004352 7 36 -67%
1913 49 0.000043092 10 39 -59%
1914 81 0.000057189 13 68 -68%
1915 71 0.000038746 12 59 -66%
1916 78 0.000040322 14 64 -64%
1917 92 0.000045845 12 80 -74%
1918 63 0.000029017 5 58 -84%
1919 95 0.000045018 18 77 -62%
1920 79 0.000034915 16 63 -59%
1921 79 0.00003384 11 68 -72%
1922 92 0.000040189 7 85 -85%
1923 83 0.000036048 15 68 -64%
1924 82 0.00003443 16 66 -61%
1925 79 0.000033858 14 65 -65%
1926 92 0.000040071 13 79 -72%
1927 83 0.000035786 13 70 -69%
1928 66 0.000029191 6 60 -82%
1929 89 0.000040599 8 81 -82%
1930 72 0.000032384 7 65 -81%
1931 73 0.000034689 15 58 -59%
1932 88 0.000041681 12 76 -73%
1933 75 0.00003751 14 61 -63%
1934 107 0.000051521 14 93 -74%
1935 99 0.000047371 19 80 -62%
1936 100 0.000048133 19 81 -62%
1937 99 0.000046464 13 86 -74%
1938 119 0.000053784 17 102 -71%
1939 99 0.00004493 14 85 -72%
1940 109 0.000047336 13 96 -76%
1941 126 0.000051715 22 104 -65%
1942 162 0.000059301 30 132 -63%
1943 158 0.000055978 28 130 -65%
1944 168 0.000062452 30 138 -64%
1945 148 0.000055788 16 132 -78%
1946 204 0.000063844 31 173 -70%
1947 255 0.000070788 29 226 -77%
1948 284 0.000082259 52 232 -63%
1949 241 0.000069158 45 196 -63%
1950 340 0.00009705 68 272 -60%
1951 357 0.000096912 67 290 -62%
1952 419 0.000110321 81 338 -61%
1953 427 0.000110804 107 320 -50%
1954 539 0.000135403 136 403 -50%
1955 499 0.000124281 136 363 -45%
1956 525 0.000127333 159 366 -39%
1957 601 0.000143022 140 461 -53%
1958 550 0.000133046 151 399 -45%
1959 574 0.000138047 137 437 -52%
1960 507 0.000122056 137 370 -46%
1961 490 0.000118292 160 330 -35%
1962 508 0.000125887 183 325 -28%
1963 497 0.000125562 161 336 -35%
1964 484 0.000124498 152 332 -37%
1965 433 0.000119433 150 283 -31%
1966 472 0.000135802 164 308 -31%
1967 579 0.00017055 256 323 -12%
1968 660 0.000195358 323 337 -2%
1969 717 0.000206312 373 344 4%
1970 733 0.000203243 409 324 12%
1971 855 0.0002491 505 350 18%
1972 763 0.000242762 481 282 26%
1973 839 0.000278101 560 279 33%
1974 957 0.000314803 659 298 38%
1975 1058 0.000350401 756 302 43%
1976 949 0.000312757 693 256 46%
1977 854 0.00026885 601 253 41%
1978 758 0.000238825 534 224 41%
1979 605 0.000181846 407 198 35%
1980 510 0.000148062 342 168 34%
1981 438 0.000126612 273 165 25%
1982 426 0.000121438 255 171 20%
1983 389 0.000112319 221 168 14%
1984 357 0.000102329 201 156 13%
1985 344 0.000096383 175 169 2%
1986 311 0.000087431 153 158 -2%
1987 294 0.00008154 154 140 5%
1988 288 0.000077942 121 167 -16%
1989 273 0.000071012 131 142 -4%
1990 237 0.000059962 96 141 -19%
1991 251 0.000064437 120 131 -4%
1992 224 0.000058314 100 124 -11%
1993 190 0.000050394 88 102 -7%
1994 177 0.000047611 96 81 8%
1995 146 0.000039867 73 73 0%
1996 136 0.000037289 63 73 -7%
1997 120 0.000033097 54 66 -10%
1998 96 0.0000261 51 45 6%
1999 106 0.000028696 55 51 4%
2000 79 0.0000209 39 40 -1%
2001 86 0.000022974 36 50 -16%
2002 77 0.000020598 28 49 -27%
2003 55 0.000014465 29 26 5%
2004 55 0.000014394 22 33 -20%
2005 53 0.000013785 26 27 -2%
2006 47 0.00001188 15 32 -36%
2007 63 0.000015759 24 39 -24%
2008 35 0.000008904 8 27 -54%
2009 47 0.000012303 19 28 -19%
2010 44 0.000011906 18 26 -18%
2011 36 0.000009842 7 29 -61%
2012 39 0.000010663 11 28 -44%
2013 32 0.000008778 8 24 -50%
2014 36 0.000009713 15 21 -17%
2015 31 0.000008376 8 23 -48%
2016 30 0.000008177 6 24 -60%
2017 32 0.000008948 11 21 -31%
2018 33 0.000009386 10 23 -39%
2019 25 0.000007203 7 18 -44%
2020 21 0.000006286 9 12 -14%
2021 16 0.000004723 9 7 13%
2022 18 0.000005321 7 11 -22%
2023 12 0.000003624 12 -100%
2024 23 0.00000691 5 18 -57%

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