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How popular is “Carletha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carletha” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carletha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carletha” 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
1928 5 0.000002211 5 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 100%
1952 11 0.000002896 11 100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 17 0.000004271 17 100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 100%
1956 16 0.000003881 16 100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 14 0.000003367 14 100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 100%
1962 20 0.000004956 20 100%
1963 14 0.000003537 14 100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 13 0.000003829 13 100%
1968 12 0.000003552 12 100%
1969 14 0.000004028 14 100%
1970 15 0.000004159 15 100%
1971 18 0.000005244 18 100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1974 12 0.000003947 12 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 11 0.000003082 11 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%

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