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How popular is “Cavan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cavan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cavan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cavan” 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
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 -100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 -100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 23 0.000006649 23 -100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 -100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 -100%
1984 16 0.000004586 16 -100%
1985 13 0.000003642 13 -100%
1986 21 0.000005904 21 -100%
1987 14 0.000003883 14 -100%
1988 13 0.000003518 13 -100%
1989 18 0.000004682 18 -100%
1990 21 0.000005313 21 -100%
1991 12 0.000003081 12 -100%
1992 28 0.000007289 28 -100%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 -100%
1994 27 0.000007263 27 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 -100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 -100%
1997 32 0.000008826 32 -100%
1998 33 0.000008972 33 -100%
1999 36 0.000009746 36 -100%
2000 34 0.000008995 34 -100%
2001 41 0.000010953 41 -100%
2002 65 0.000017388 65 -100%
2003 60 0.00001578 60 -100%
2004 45 0.000011777 45 -100%
2005 71 0.000018466 71 -100%
2006 59 0.000014913 59 -100%
2007 64 0.000016009 64 -100%
2008 77 0.00001959 77 -100%
2009 69 0.000018062 69 -100%
2010 53 0.000014341 53 -100%
2011 52 0.000014216 52 -100%
2012 51 0.000013944 51 -100%
2013 69 0.000018927 69 -100%
2014 52 0.00001403 52 -100%
2015 43 0.000011619 43 -100%
2016 44 0.000011993 44 -100%
2017 36 0.000010067 36 -100%
2018 31 0.000008817 31 -100%
2019 41 0.000011812 41 -100%
2020 28 0.000008382 28 -100%
2021 33 0.00000974 33 -100%
2022 28 0.000008276 28 -100%
2023 30 0.00000906 30 -100%
2024 25 0.000007511 25 -100%

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