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How popular is “Chirstopher” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chirstopher” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Chirstopher” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chirstopher” 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
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 14 0.000003862 14 -100%
1966 16 0.000004603 16 -100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 -100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 -100%
1969 20 0.000005755 20 -100%
1970 19 0.000005268 19 -100%
1971 24 0.000006992 24 -100%
1972 29 0.000009227 29 -100%
1973 32 0.000010607 32 -100%
1974 43 0.000014145 43 -100%
1975 40 0.000013248 40 -100%
1976 41 0.000013512 41 -100%
1977 42 0.000013222 42 -100%
1978 43 0.000013548 43 -100%
1979 46 0.000013826 46 -100%
1980 46 0.000013355 46 -100%
1981 57 0.000016477 57 -100%
1982 42 0.000011973 42 -100%
1983 46 0.000013282 46 -100%
1984 51 0.000014618 51 -100%
1985 50 0.000014009 50 -100%
1986 53 0.0000149 53 -100%
1987 51 0.000014145 51 -100%
1988 33 0.000008931 33 -100%
1989 34 0.000008844 34 -100%
1990 17 0.000004301 17 -100%
1991 12 0.000003081 12 -100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 -100%
1993 12 0.000003183 12 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1997 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%

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