Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Chapel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chapel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Chapel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chapel” 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
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2001 11 0.000002939 6 5 9%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 100%
2010 12 0.000003247 7 5 17%
2011 17 0.000004648 10 7 18%
2012 19 0.000005195 10 9 5%
2013 16 0.000004389 10 6 25%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 100%
2016 18 0.000004906 18 100%
2017 19 0.000005313 19 100%
2018 22 0.000006257 14 8 27%
2019 22 0.000006338 17 5 55%
2020 16 0.00000479 11 5 38%
2021 20 0.000005903 11 9 10%
2022 35 0.000010345 15 20 -14%
2023 45 0.00001359 21 24 -7%
2024 44 0.000013219 22 22 0%

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