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How popular is “Chaney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chaney” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Chaney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chaney” 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
1886 5 0.000019584 5 100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 100%
1915 18 0.000009823 9 9 0%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 100%
1924 11 0.000004619 6 5 9%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 100%
1966 11 0.000003165 5 6 -9%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 100%
1972 15 0.000004773 6 9 -20%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 18 0.000005921 7 11 -22%
1975 15 0.000004968 9 6 20%
1976 11 0.000003625 5 6 -9%
1977 24 0.000007555 12 12 0%
1978 17 0.000005356 10 7 18%
1979 24 0.000007214 13 11 8%
1980 25 0.000007258 20 5 60%
1981 22 0.00000636 17 5 55%
1982 19 0.000005416 13 6 37%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 17 0.000004873 11 6 29%
1985 20 0.000005604 11 9 10%
1986 25 0.000007028 18 7 44%
1987 22 0.000006102 16 6 45%
1988 27 0.000007307 16 11 19%
1989 27 0.000007023 19 8 41%
1990 38 0.000009614 27 11 42%
1991 55 0.00001412 37 18 35%
1992 49 0.000012756 31 18 27%
1993 43 0.000011405 33 10 53%
1994 44 0.000011835 28 16 27%
1995 40 0.000010923 28 12 40%
1996 47 0.000012887 39 8 66%
1997 43 0.00001186 28 15 30%
1998 65 0.000017672 42 23 29%
1999 43 0.000011641 31 12 44%
2000 62 0.000016403 51 11 65%
2001 73 0.000019501 54 19 48%
2002 45 0.000012038 33 12 47%
2003 77 0.000020251 57 20 48%
2004 46 0.000012039 38 8 65%
2005 46 0.000011964 36 10 57%
2006 39 0.000009858 28 11 44%
2007 28 0.000007004 22 6 57%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 100%
2009 30 0.000007853 25 5 67%
2010 21 0.000005682 16 5 52%
2011 24 0.000006561 18 6 50%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 100%
2015 18 0.000004864 18 100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 100%
2017 22 0.000006152 22 100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 100%
2019 16 0.00000461 16 100%
2020 15 0.00000449 15 100%
2021 15 0.000004427 15 100%
2022 17 0.000005025 12 5 41%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 100%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 100%

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