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How popular is “Cato” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cato” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cato” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cato” 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 6 0.000029779 6 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1917 11 0.000005482 11 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1941 8 0.000003283 8 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 -100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2012 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 19 0.000005126 19 -100%
2015 23 0.000006215 23 -100%
2016 18 0.000004906 18 -100%
2017 21 0.000005872 21 -100%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 -100%
2019 27 0.000007779 27 -100%
2020 34 0.000010178 34 -100%
2021 37 0.000010921 37 -100%
2022 38 0.000011232 38 -100%
2023 23 0.000006946 23 -100%
2024 40 0.000012017 40 -100%

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