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How popular is “Chesney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chesney” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Chesney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chesney” 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
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 13 0.000003774 13 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 100%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 100%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 100%
1985 11 0.000003082 11 100%
1986 16 0.000004498 16 100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 100%
1989 19 0.000004942 19 100%
1990 27 0.000006831 22 5 63%
1991 23 0.000005905 23 100%
1992 50 0.000013017 44 6 76%
1993 28 0.000007427 28 100%
1994 29 0.000007801 29 100%
1995 31 0.000008465 31 100%
1996 47 0.000012887 47 100%
1997 41 0.000011308 41 100%
1998 63 0.000017128 63 100%
1999 50 0.000013536 50 100%
2000 51 0.000013492 51 100%
2001 84 0.00002244 77 7 83%
2002 90 0.000024075 85 5 89%
2003 89 0.000023407 80 9 80%
2004 129 0.000033761 114 15 77%
2005 141 0.000036672 131 10 86%
2006 115 0.000029068 110 5 91%
2007 100 0.000025014 91 9 82%
2008 96 0.000024423 89 7 85%
2009 98 0.000025653 92 6 88%
2010 86 0.00002327 76 10 77%
2011 72 0.000019684 66 6 83%
2012 92 0.000025155 92 100%
2013 94 0.000025784 88 6 87%
2014 84 0.000022664 74 10 76%
2015 73 0.000019725 68 5 86%
2016 88 0.000023987 88 100%
2017 90 0.000025166 81 9 80%
2018 67 0.000019056 58 9 73%
2019 71 0.000020456 64 7 80%
2020 62 0.00001856 62 100%
2021 82 0.000024203 82 100%
2022 79 0.000023351 79 100%
2023 66 0.000019932 66 100%
2024 66 0.000019829 55 11 67%

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