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How popular is “Carlene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carlene” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carlene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carlene” 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
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1908 13 0.000026604 13 100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 100%
1911 13 0.000020178 13 100%
1912 14 0.000014169 14 100%
1913 17 0.00001495 17 100%
1914 28 0.000019769 28 100%
1915 42 0.00002292 42 100%
1916 37 0.000019127 37 100%
1917 45 0.000022424 45 100%
1918 47 0.000021648 47 100%
1919 53 0.000025116 53 100%
1920 65 0.000028727 65 100%
1921 54 0.000023131 54 100%
1922 58 0.000025337 58 100%
1923 64 0.000027796 64 100%
1924 79 0.000033171 79 100%
1925 67 0.000028715 67 100%
1926 101 0.000043991 101 100%
1927 92 0.000039666 92 100%
1928 119 0.000052633 119 100%
1929 140 0.000063864 140 100%
1930 134 0.000060271 134 100%
1931 156 0.000074131 156 100%
1932 175 0.000082888 175 100%
1933 208 0.000104029 208 100%
1934 256 0.000123266 256 100%
1935 234 0.000111967 234 100%
1936 285 0.000137179 285 100%
1937 254 0.000119211 254 100%
1938 277 0.000125194 277 100%
1939 294 0.000133428 294 100%
1940 294 0.000127677 294 100%
1941 321 0.00013175 321 100%
1942 293 0.000107255 293 100%
1943 308 0.000109121 308 100%
1944 270 0.000100369 270 100%
1945 257 0.000096875 257 100%
1946 315 0.000098582 315 100%
1947 353 0.000097992 353 100%
1948 316 0.000091527 316 100%
1949 298 0.000085515 298 100%
1950 330 0.000094195 330 100%
1951 290 0.000078724 290 100%
1952 340 0.000089521 340 100%
1953 339 0.000087969 339 100%
1954 302 0.000075866 302 100%
1955 370 0.000092153 370 100%
1956 301 0.000073004 301 100%
1957 342 0.000081387 342 100%
1958 355 0.000085875 355 100%
1959 333 0.000080087 333 100%
1960 317 0.000076315 317 100%
1961 301 0.000072665 301 100%
1962 277 0.000068643 277 100%
1963 262 0.000066192 262 100%
1964 267 0.00006868 267 100%
1965 239 0.000065923 239 100%
1966 205 0.000058982 205 100%
1967 180 0.000053021 180 100%
1968 152 0.000044992 152 100%
1969 189 0.000054383 189 100%
1970 150 0.000041591 150 100%
1971 141 0.00004108 141 100%
1972 114 0.000036271 114 100%
1973 107 0.000035467 107 100%
1974 108 0.000035526 108 100%
1975 86 0.000028483 86 100%
1976 84 0.000027683 84 100%
1977 73 0.000022981 73 100%
1978 76 0.000023946 76 100%
1979 88 0.00002645 88 100%
1980 98 0.000028451 98 100%
1981 87 0.000025149 87 100%
1982 93 0.000026511 93 100%
1983 82 0.000023677 82 100%
1984 79 0.000022644 79 100%
1985 77 0.000021574 77 100%
1986 71 0.00001996 71 100%
1987 64 0.00001775 64 100%
1988 62 0.000016779 62 100%
1989 75 0.000019509 75 100%
1990 80 0.00002024 80 100%
1991 90 0.000023105 90 100%
1992 68 0.000017702 68 100%
1993 75 0.000019892 75 100%
1994 64 0.000017215 64 100%
1995 59 0.000016111 59 100%
1996 49 0.000013435 49 100%
1997 34 0.000009377 34 100%
1998 40 0.000010875 40 100%
1999 23 0.000006227 23 100%
2000 82 0.000021694 82 100%
2001 49 0.00001309 49 100%
2002 34 0.000009095 34 100%
2003 38 0.000009994 38 100%
2004 33 0.000008637 33 100%
2005 38 0.000009883 38 100%
2006 35 0.000008847 35 100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 100%
2008 34 0.00000865 34 100%
2009 32 0.000008377 32 100%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2013 18 0.000004937 18 100%
2014 19 0.000005126 19 100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 100%
2016 18 0.000004906 18 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 100%
2022 15 0.000004434 15 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 100%

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