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How popular is “Carson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carson” 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
1880 9 0.000044669 9 -100%
1881 6 0.000031138 6 -100%
1882 14 0.000063196 14 -100%
1884 13 0.000053397 13 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 8 0.000031334 8 -100%
1887 14 0.00005659 14 -100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 -100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 -100%
1890 8 0.000026543 8 -100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 -100%
1892 12 0.000035888 12 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 10 0.000028488 10 -100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 16 0.000041945 16 -100%
1899 10 0.000029478 10 -100%
1900 16 0.000035535 16 -100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 -100%
1902 17 0.000043958 17 -100%
1903 14 0.000036726 14 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1905 12 0.000028307 12 -100%
1906 13 0.000030342 13 -100%
1907 15 0.000032231 15 -100%
1908 12 0.000024558 12 -100%
1909 22 0.000043034 22 -100%
1910 24 0.000040629 24 -100%
1911 37 0.000057429 37 -100%
1912 45 0.000045544 45 -100%
1913 47 0.000041333 47 -100%
1914 96 0.00006778 96 -100%
1915 95 0.000051844 95 -100%
1916 113 0.000058416 113 -100%
1917 90 0.000044849 90 -100%
1918 103 0.000047441 103 -100%
1919 103 0.000048809 103 -100%
1920 99 0.000043754 99 -100%
1921 97 0.000041551 97 -100%
1922 120 0.000052421 120 -100%
1923 108 0.000046906 108 -100%
1924 132 0.000055425 132 -100%
1925 103 0.000044143 103 -100%
1926 113 0.000049218 113 -100%
1927 105 0.000045271 105 -100%
1928 101 0.000044672 101 -100%
1929 72 0.000032844 72 -100%
1930 105 0.000047227 105 -100%
1931 86 0.000040867 86 -100%
1932 111 0.000052574 111 -100%
1933 71 0.00003551 71 -100%
1934 84 0.000040447 84 -100%
1935 84 0.000040193 84 -100%
1936 89 0.000042838 89 -100%
1937 99 0.000046464 99 -100%
1938 87 0.000039321 87 -100%
1939 117 0.000053099 117 -100%
1940 106 0.000046033 106 -100%
1941 97 0.000039812 97 -100%
1942 115 0.000042097 115 -100%
1943 122 0.000043223 122 -100%
1944 69 0.00002565 69 -100%
1945 98 0.000036941 98 -100%
1946 131 0.000040998 131 -100%
1947 146 0.000040529 11 135 -85%
1948 123 0.000035626 6 117 -90%
1949 138 0.000039601 5 133 -93%
1950 127 0.000036251 7 120 -89%
1951 160 0.000043434 9 151 -89%
1952 128 0.000033702 7 121 -89%
1953 153 0.000039703 12 141 -84%
1954 136 0.000034165 136 -100%
1955 126 0.000031382 126 -100%
1956 118 0.00002862 5 113 -92%
1957 107 0.000025463 107 -100%
1958 99 0.000023948 99 -100%
1959 104 0.000025012 6 98 -88%
1960 90 0.000021667 90 -100%
1961 106 0.00002559 106 -100%
1962 93 0.000023046 8 85 -83%
1963 87 0.00002198 87 -100%
1964 85 0.000021864 85 -100%
1965 89 0.000024549 89 -100%
1966 79 0.00002273 79 -100%
1967 71 0.000020914 71 -100%
1968 92 0.000027232 5 87 -89%
1969 90 0.000025897 10 80 -78%
1970 104 0.000028837 104 -100%
1971 92 0.000026804 8 84 -83%
1972 112 0.000035635 8 104 -86%
1973 112 0.000037124 11 101 -80%
1974 112 0.000036842 9 103 -84%
1975 143 0.00004736 20 123 -72%
1976 151 0.000049764 11 140 -85%
1977 149 0.000046907 14 135 -81%
1978 150 0.000047261 13 137 -83%
1979 170 0.000051097 16 154 -81%
1980 175 0.000050806 19 156 -78%
1981 190 0.000054923 26 164 -73%
1982 207 0.000059009 18 189 -83%
1983 200 0.000057748 15 185 -85%
1984 239 0.000068506 18 221 -85%
1985 280 0.000078451 24 256 -83%
1986 279 0.000078435 27 252 -81%
1987 273 0.000075715 23 250 -83%
1988 313 0.000084708 30 283 -81%
1989 413 0.000107428 36 377 -83%
1990 539 0.00013637 68 471 -75%
1991 666 0.000170977 129 537 -61%
1992 865 0.000225186 202 663 -53%
1993 888 0.000235526 189 699 -57%
1994 1037 0.000278939 204 833 -61%
1995 1097 0.00029955 204 893 -63%
1996 1261 0.000345745 251 1010 -60%
1997 1298 0.000357995 251 1047 -61%
1998 1770 0.000481213 299 1471 -66%
1999 2794 0.000756389 447 2347 -68%
2000 3616 0.000956638 377 3239 -79%
2001 4294 0.001147089 352 3942 -84%
2002 3893 0.001041385 293 3600 -85%
2003 5141 0.00135207 280 4861 -89%
2004 4615 0.001207823 236 4379 -90%
2005 4568 0.001188084 214 4354 -91%
2006 5224 0.001320463 212 5012 -92%
2007 5320 0.001330771 200 5120 -92%
2008 5329 0.00135575 202 5127 -92%
2009 5185 0.001357268 188 4997 -93%
2010 5287 0.001430566 189 5098 -93%
2011 5106 0.001395924 179 4927 -93%
2012 4750 0.001298749 153 4597 -94%
2013 4690 0.001286459 152 4538 -94%
2014 4797 0.001294256 173 4624 -93%
2015 4938 0.001334266 178 4760 -93%
2016 5117 0.001394773 186 4931 -93%
2017 4958 0.00138639 193 4765 -92%
2018 5466 0.001554653 207 5259 -92%
2019 4686 0.001350069 166 4520 -93%
2020 4395 0.001315641 202 4193 -91%
2021 3941 0.001163241 172 3769 -91%
2022 3577 0.001057303 170 3407 -90%
2023 3397 0.001025913 188 3209 -89%
2024 3063 0.000920234 173 2890 -89%

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