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How popular is “Carolene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carolene” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carolene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carolene” 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
1917 6 0.00000299 6 100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 100%
1933 12 0.000006002 12 100%
1934 15 0.000007223 15 100%
1935 17 0.000008134 17 100%
1936 10 0.000004813 10 100%
1937 23 0.000010795 23 100%
1938 31 0.000014011 31 100%
1939 23 0.000010438 23 100%
1940 22 0.000009554 22 100%
1941 22 0.00000903 22 100%
1942 29 0.000010616 29 100%
1943 27 0.000009566 27 100%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 100%
1945 26 0.000009801 26 100%
1946 26 0.000008137 26 100%
1947 18 0.000004997 18 100%
1948 22 0.000006372 22 100%
1949 28 0.000008035 28 100%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 100%
1952 22 0.000005793 22 100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 100%
1955 14 0.000003487 14 100%
1956 17 0.000004123 17 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 15 0.000003629 15 100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 100%
1960 15 0.000003611 15 100%
1961 18 0.000004345 18 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 100%
1964 16 0.000004116 16 100%
1965 14 0.000003862 14 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1969 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%

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