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How popular is “Cedar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cedar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cedar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cedar” 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
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 15 0.000004934 8 7 7%
1975 15 0.000004968 9 6 20%
1976 27 0.000008898 14 13 4%
1977 34 0.000010704 15 19 -12%
1978 22 0.000006932 14 8 27%
1979 18 0.00000541 8 10 -11%
1980 25 0.000007258 14 11 12%
1981 22 0.00000636 13 9 18%
1982 19 0.000005416 11 8 16%
1983 17 0.000004909 12 5 41%
1984 24 0.000006879 14 10 17%
1985 15 0.000004203 10 5 33%
1986 14 0.000003936 9 5 29%
1987 17 0.000004715 5 12 -41%
1988 12 0.000003248 5 7 -17%
1989 20 0.000005202 7 13 -30%
1990 13 0.000003289 7 6 8%
1991 19 0.000004878 10 9 5%
1992 17 0.000004426 7 10 -18%
1993 22 0.000005835 13 9 18%
1994 22 0.000005918 10 12 -9%
1995 29 0.000007919 19 10 31%
1996 38 0.000010419 19 19 0%
1997 40 0.000011032 21 19 5%
1998 42 0.000011419 16 26 -24%
1999 37 0.000010017 14 23 -24%
2000 44 0.000011641 25 19 14%
2001 63 0.00001683 24 39 -24%
2002 48 0.00001284 24 24 0%
2003 46 0.000012098 19 27 -17%
2004 57 0.000014918 30 27 5%
2005 46 0.000011964 20 26 -13%
2006 76 0.00001921 28 48 -26%
2007 82 0.000020512 35 47 -15%
2008 73 0.000018572 32 41 -12%
2009 67 0.000017538 26 41 -22%
2010 80 0.000021647 30 50 -25%
2011 86 0.000023511 28 58 -35%
2012 98 0.000026795 36 62 -27%
2013 110 0.000030173 41 69 -25%
2014 126 0.000033995 51 75 -19%
2015 171 0.000046205 61 110 -29%
2016 175 0.000047701 41 134 -53%
2017 190 0.000053129 55 135 -42%
2018 194 0.000055178 49 145 -49%
2019 219 0.000063095 58 161 -47%
2020 233 0.000069748 75 158 -36%
2021 223 0.000065822 70 153 -37%
2022 271 0.000080103 83 188 -39%
2023 235 0.000070971 81 154 -31%
2024 246 0.000073907 76 170 -38%

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