How popular is “Charon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Charon” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Charon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Charon” 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
1937	9	0.000004224	9		100%
1938	9	0.000004068	9		100%
1939	12	0.000005446	12		100%
1940	10	0.000004343	10		100%
1941	8	0.000003283	8		100%
1942	10	0.000003661	10		100%
1943	17	0.000006023	17		100%
1944	15	0.000005576	15		100%
1945	12	0.000004523	12		100%
1946	13	0.000004068	13		100%
1947	19	0.000005274	19		100%
1948	18	0.000005214	18		100%
1949	9	0.000002583	9		100%
1950	11	0.00000314	11		100%
1951	13	0.000003529	13		100%
1952	15	0.000003949	15		100%
1953	9	0.000002335	9		100%
1954	13	0.000003266	13		100%
1955	11	0.00000274	11		100%
1956	13	0.000003153	13		100%
1957	14	0.000003332	14		100%
1958	13	0.000003145	13		100%
1959	13	0.000003127	13		100%
1960	17	0.000004093	17		100%
1961	13	0.000003138	13		100%
1962	12	0.000002974	12		100%
1963	16	0.000004042	16		100%
1964	15	0.000003858	15		100%
1965	15	0.000004137	15		100%
1966	23	0.000006617	23		100%
1967	19	0.000005597	19		100%
1968	25	0.0000074	25		100%
1969	27	0.000007769	27		100%
1970	32	0.000008873	26	6	63%
1971	28	0.000008158	23	5	64%
1972	17	0.000005409	17		100%
1973	38	0.000012596	29	9	53%
1974	24	0.000007895	17	7	42%
1975	28	0.000009273	20	8	43%
1976	29	0.000009557	22	7	52%
1977	32	0.000010074	22	10	38%
1978	29	0.000009137	23	6	59%
1979	28	0.000008416	21	7	50%
1980	36	0.000010451	27	9	50%
1981	32	0.00000925	23	9	44%
1982	26	0.000007412	21	5	62%
1983	30	0.000008662	23	7	53%
1984	32	0.000009172	20	12	25%
1985	22	0.000006164	16	6	45%
1986	15	0.000004217	15		100%
1987	21	0.000005824	13	8	24%
1988	24	0.000006495	13	11	8%
1989	17	0.000004422	11	6	29%
1990	26	0.000006578	13	13	0%
1991	24	0.000006161	24		100%
1992	17	0.000004426	11	6	29%
1993	11	0.000002918	11		100%
1994	18	0.000004842	11	7	22%
1995	7	0.000001911	7		100%
1996	19	0.000005209	14	5	47%
1997	7	0.000001931	7		100%
1998	16	0.00000435	6	10	-25%
1999	15	0.000004061	10	5	33%
2001	6	0.000001603	6		100%
2003	6	0.000001578	6		100%
2006	5	0.000001264		5	-100%
2007	9	0.000002251		9	-100%
2008	5	0.000001272	5		100%
2009	6	0.000001571		6	-100%
2011	7	0.000001914		7	-100%
2013	5	0.000001371		5	-100%

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