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How popular is “Cathleen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cathleen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cathleen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cathleen” 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
1896 8 0.000022379 8 100%
1899 8 0.000023583 8 100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1902 18 0.000046544 18 100%
1903 13 0.000034103 13 100%
1904 18 0.000044611 18 100%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 100%
1906 17 0.000039678 17 100%
1907 13 0.000027934 13 100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 100%
1910 27 0.000045708 27 100%
1911 23 0.000035699 23 100%
1912 30 0.000030362 30 100%
1913 24 0.000021106 24 100%
1914 28 0.000019769 28 100%
1915 33 0.000018009 33 100%
1916 49 0.000025331 49 100%
1917 41 0.000020431 41 100%
1918 44 0.000020266 44 100%
1919 46 0.000021798 46 100%
1920 51 0.00002254 51 100%
1921 56 0.000023988 56 100%
1922 61 0.000026647 61 100%
1923 78 0.000033877 78 100%
1924 73 0.000030652 73 100%
1925 73 0.000031286 73 100%
1926 73 0.000031796 73 100%
1927 53 0.000022851 53 100%
1928 67 0.000029634 67 100%
1929 56 0.000025546 56 100%
1930 57 0.000025638 57 100%
1931 49 0.000023285 49 100%
1932 70 0.000033155 70 100%
1933 50 0.000025007 50 100%
1934 57 0.000027446 57 100%
1935 61 0.000029188 61 100%
1936 45 0.00002166 45 100%
1937 61 0.000028629 61 100%
1938 64 0.000028926 64 100%
1939 85 0.000038576 85 100%
1940 116 0.000050376 116 100%
1941 136 0.000055819 136 100%
1942 182 0.000066622 182 100%
1943 199 0.000070503 199 100%
1944 287 0.000106688 287 100%
1945 311 0.00011723 311 100%
1946 356 0.000111413 356 100%
1947 568 0.000157676 568 100%
1948 653 0.000189137 653 100%
1949 733 0.000210344 733 100%
1950 759 0.000216649 759 100%
1951 772 0.00020957 772 100%
1952 877 0.000230911 877 100%
1953 822 0.000213305 817 5 99%
1954 870 0.000218554 870 100%
1955 1008 0.000251054 1008 100%
1956 1115 0.000270432 1115 100%
1957 1071 0.00025487 1071 100%
1958 1159 0.000280365 1159 100%
1959 1016 0.000244349 1016 100%
1960 950 0.000228705 950 100%
1961 932 0.000224996 932 100%
1962 849 0.00021039 849 100%
1963 821 0.000207418 821 100%
1964 1010 0.0002598 1005 5 99%
1965 886 0.000244384 886 100%
1966 831 0.000239092 831 100%
1967 733 0.000215912 733 100%
1968 612 0.00018115 612 100%
1969 670 0.000192788 670 100%
1970 636 0.000176348 636 100%
1971 534 0.000155578 534 100%
1972 428 0.000136176 428 100%
1973 367 0.000121649 367 100%
1974 317 0.000104276 317 100%
1975 261 0.000086441 261 100%
1976 214 0.000070527 214 100%
1977 270 0.000084999 270 100%
1978 220 0.000069316 220 100%
1979 214 0.000064322 214 100%
1980 186 0.000053999 186 100%
1981 197 0.000056947 197 100%
1982 203 0.000057868 203 100%
1983 177 0.000051107 177 100%
1984 177 0.000050734 177 100%
1985 189 0.000052954 189 100%
1986 178 0.000050041 178 100%
1987 162 0.00004493 162 100%
1988 151 0.000040866 151 100%
1989 140 0.000036416 140 100%
1990 129 0.000032638 129 100%
1991 125 0.00003209 125 100%
1992 115 0.000029938 115 100%
1993 109 0.00002891 109 100%
1994 115 0.000030933 115 100%
1995 72 0.000019661 72 100%
1996 77 0.000021112 77 100%
1997 75 0.000020685 75 100%
1998 65 0.000017672 65 100%
1999 74 0.000020033 74 100%
2000 56 0.000014815 56 100%
2001 52 0.000013891 52 100%
2002 52 0.00001391 52 100%
2003 43 0.000011309 43 100%
2004 43 0.000011254 43 100%
2005 42 0.000010924 42 100%
2006 38 0.000009605 38 100%
2007 45 0.000011257 45 100%
2008 44 0.000011194 44 100%
2009 46 0.000012041 46 100%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 100%
2011 29 0.000007928 29 100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 100%
2013 33 0.000009052 33 100%
2014 27 0.000007285 27 100%
2015 21 0.000005674 21 100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 100%
2017 18 0.000005033 18 100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 100%
2022 13 0.000003843 13 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 100%

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