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How popular is “Carrington” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carrington” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carrington” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carrington” 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
1913 8 0.000007035 8 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 -100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 -100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1950 11 0.00000314 11 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1968 10 0.00000296 5 5 0%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 16 0.000004662 6 10 -25%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 -100%
1982 19 0.000005416 19 -100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 -100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 -100%
1985 36 0.000010087 11 25 -39%
1986 52 0.000014619 7 45 -73%
1987 51 0.000014145 6 45 -76%
1988 49 0.000013261 7 42 -71%
1989 81 0.000021069 18 63 -56%
1990 109 0.000027578 36 73 -34%
1991 103 0.000026442 45 58 -13%
1992 95 0.000024731 31 64 -35%
1993 88 0.00002334 32 56 -27%
1994 77 0.000020712 26 51 -32%
1995 71 0.000019387 23 48 -35%
1996 125 0.000034273 75 50 20%
1997 95 0.000026201 52 43 9%
1998 119 0.000032353 79 40 33%
1999 255 0.000069033 166 89 30%
2000 275 0.000072753 197 78 43%
2001 199 0.00005316 140 59 41%
2002 144 0.00003852 99 45 38%
2003 115 0.000030245 83 32 44%
2004 118 0.000030883 91 27 54%
2005 104 0.000027049 71 33 37%
2006 140 0.000035388 104 36 49%
2007 131 0.000032769 97 34 48%
2008 130 0.000033073 101 29 55%
2009 141 0.000036909 120 21 70%
2010 133 0.000035987 108 25 62%
2011 132 0.000036087 104 28 58%
2012 131 0.000035818 95 36 45%
2013 136 0.000037305 110 26 62%
2014 111 0.000029948 84 27 51%
2015 95 0.000025669 71 24 49%
2016 86 0.000023442 60 26 40%
2017 73 0.000020413 51 22 40%
2018 49 0.000013937 35 14 43%
2019 61 0.000017575 48 13 57%
2020 49 0.000014668 34 15 39%
2021 51 0.000015053 30 21 18%
2022 45 0.000013301 24 21 7%
2023 39 0.000011778 28 11 44%
2024 34 0.000010215 24 10 41%

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