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How popular is “Chessie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chessie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Chessie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chessie” 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
1888 6 0.000020035 6 100%
1889 9 0.000031148 9 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 100%
1903 9 0.00002361 9 100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1911 15 0.000023282 15 100%
1912 16 0.000016193 16 100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1915 16 0.000008732 16 100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 100%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 100%
1920 16 0.000007071 16 100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 100%
1922 16 0.000006989 16 100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 100%
1924 14 0.000005878 14 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 100%
1933 7 0.000003501 7 100%
1934 13 0.00000626 13 100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 100%
1937 11 0.000005163 11 100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 13 0.000003774 13 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1985 11 0.000003082 11 100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%

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