How popular is “Carmen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carmen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carmen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carmen” 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
1881	7	0.000036328	7		100%
1882	7	0.000031598	7		100%
1883	8	0.000036876	8		100%
1884	14	0.000057504	14		100%
1885	24	0.000099645	24		100%
1886	16	0.000062667	16		100%
1887	12	0.000048506	12		100%
1888	26	0.000086819	26		100%
1889	27	0.000093443	27		100%
1890	28	0.000092899	28		100%
1891	31	0.000108137	31		100%
1892	41	0.000122617	41		100%
1893	39	0.000119918	39		100%
1894	54	0.000159438	49	5	81%
1895	34	0.000096861	29	5	71%
1896	56	0.00015665	48	8	71%
1897	58	0.000167168	53	5	83%
1898	71	0.000186129	63	8	77%
1899	48	0.000141495	38	10	58%
1900	101	0.000224316	91	10	80%
1901	88	0.000254474	76	12	73%
1902	80	0.000206861	75	5	88%
1903	101	0.000264953	90	11	78%
1904	92	0.000228013	80	12	74%
1905	101	0.000238251	89	12	76%
1906	155	0.000361768	135	20	74%
1907	148	0.000318013	125	23	69%
1908	134	0.000274225	122	12	82%
1909	183	0.000357964	157	26	72%
1910	222	0.000375818	181	41	63%
1911	255	0.000395792	199	56	56%
1912	326	0.000329939	231	95	42%
1913	424	0.000372875	300	124	42%
1914	547	0.000386206	374	173	37%
1915	694	0.000378733	483	211	39%
1916	784	0.00040529	508	276	30%
1917	817	0.000407126	559	258	37%
1918	910	0.00041914	637	273	40%
1919	888	0.000420804	632	256	42%
1920	1049	0.000463617	757	292	44%
1921	1092	0.000467765	776	316	42%
1922	1100	0.000480526	783	317	42%
1923	1228	0.000533338	925	303	51%
1924	1286	0.000539971	942	344	47%
1925	1274	0.000546007	939	335	47%
1926	1278	0.000556643	956	322	50%
1927	1346	0.000580333	1019	327	51%
1928	1346	0.000595328	1017	329	51%
1929	1336	0.000609444	1066	270	60%
1930	1318	0.000592816	1044	274	58%
1931	1180	0.000560733	934	246	58%
1932	1121	0.000530955	886	235	58%
1933	1098	0.000549152	832	266	52%
1934	1076	0.000518101	852	224	58%
1935	1041	0.00049811	830	211	59%
1936	1055	0.000507803	847	208	61%
1937	990	0.000464643	775	215	57%
1938	996	0.000450154	793	203	59%
1939	977	0.000443397	776	201	59%
1940	1042	0.000452515	823	219	58%
1941	1187	0.000487189	956	231	61%
1942	1255	0.000459401	991	264	58%
1943	1266	0.000448529	1036	230	64%
1944	1142	0.000424523	942	200	65%
1945	1042	0.000392776	872	170	67%
1946	1284	0.000401839	1071	213	67%
1947	1471	0.000408348	1237	234	68%
1948	1544	0.00044721	1309	235	70%
1949	1679	0.00048181	1455	224	73%
1950	1659	0.000473546	1460	199	76%
1951	1768	0.000479947	1567	201	77%
1952	1810	0.000476566	1608	202	78%
1953	1945	0.000504717	1725	220	77%
1954	1998	0.000501921	1784	214	79%
1955	2241	0.000558146	2047	194	83%
1956	2416	0.000585976	2206	210	83%
1957	2456	0.000584464	2219	237	81%
1958	2345	0.00056726	2121	224	81%
1959	2448	0.000588746	2216	232	81%
1960	2615	0.000629542	2439	176	87%
1961	2622	0.000632982	2401	221	83%
1962	2593	0.000642568	2411	182	86%
1963	2514	0.000635137	2346	168	87%
1964	2554	0.00065696	2377	177	86%
1965	2306	0.000636059	2147	159	86%
1966	2257	0.000649374	2122	135	88%
1967	2308	0.000679844	2174	134	88%
1968	2422	0.000716905	2269	153	87%
1969	2341	0.000673606	2199	142	88%
1970	2329	0.000645776	2202	127	89%
1971	2265	0.000659897	2139	126	89%
1972	2092	0.000665607	1969	123	88%
1973	1863	0.000617524	1757	106	89%
1974	1840	0.000605263	1749	91	90%
1975	1890	0.000625953	1776	114	88%
1976	1711	0.000563886	1616	95	89%
1977	1724	0.000542737	1629	95	89%
1978	1532	0.000482691	1427	105	86%
1979	1687	0.000507063	1610	77	91%
1980	1559	0.000452605	1459	100	87%
1981	1553	0.000448925	1446	107	86%
1982	1385	0.000394816	1315	70	90%
1983	1299	0.000375072	1228	71	89%
1984	1375	0.000394123	1299	76	89%
1985	1245	0.000348826	1168	77	88%
1986	1277	0.000359003	1199	78	88%
1987	1236	0.000342799	1151	85	86%
1988	1251	0.000338562	1170	81	87%
1989	1254	0.000326185	1187	67	89%
1990	1406	0.000355726	1314	92	87%
1991	1302	0.000334252	1235	67	90%
1992	1277	0.000332442	1205	72	89%
1993	1160	0.00030767	1092	68	88%
1994	1235	0.000332199	1167	68	89%
1995	1067	0.000291359	1004	63	88%
1996	931	0.000255265	869	62	87%
1997	1060	0.000292353	1012	48	91%
1998	1188	0.000322983	1121	67	89%
1999	1188	0.000321614	1139	49	92%
2000	1261	0.000333606	1195	66	90%
2001	1213	0.000324038	1175	38	94%
2002	1083	0.000289705	1020	63	88%
2003	1338	0.000351891	1291	47	93%
2004	1399	0.000366142	1363	36	95%
2005	1281	0.000333173	1227	54	92%
2006	1331	0.000336435	1284	47	93%
2007	1289	0.000322437	1244	45	93%
2008	1354	0.000344471	1312	42	94%
2009	1132	0.000296321	1106	26	95%
2010	1054	0.000285193	1017	37	93%
2011	957	0.000261633	919	38	92%
2012	971	0.000265492	943	28	94%
2013	906	0.000248514	880	26	94%
2014	878	0.000236889	855	23	95%
2015	882	0.00023832	859	23	95%
2016	861	0.000234688	829	32	93%
2017	793	0.000221744	776	17	96%
2018	751	0.000213601	733	18	95%
2019	770	0.000221842	741	29	92%
2020	726	0.000217328	706	20	94%
2021	742	0.000219012	716	26	93%
2022	723	0.000213707	693	30	92%
2023	763	0.00023043	712	51	87%
2024	834	0.000250563	751	83	80%

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