How popular is “Christen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Christen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Christen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Christen” 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
1910	5	0.000008464	5		100%
1911	7	0.000010865	7		100%
1912	7	0.000007085	7		100%
1913	6	0.000005277	6		100%
1915	5	0.000002729	5		100%
1916	16	0.000008271	11	5	38%
1917	7	0.000003488	7		100%
1918	9	0.000004145	9		100%
1919	25	0.000011847	19	6	52%
1920	14	0.000006187	14		100%
1921	17	0.000007282	17		100%
1922	9	0.000003932	9		100%
1923	15	0.000006515	15		100%
1924	21	0.000008818	21		100%
1925	11	0.000004714	11		100%
1926	19	0.000008276	19		100%
1927	11	0.000004743	11		100%
1928	14	0.000006192	14		100%
1929	18	0.000008211	12	6	33%
1930	12	0.000005397	12		100%
1931	10	0.000004752	10		100%
1932	8	0.000003789	8		100%
1934	10	0.000004815	10		100%
1935	14	0.000006699	14		100%
1936	9	0.000004332	9		100%
1937	8	0.000003755	8		100%
1940	8	0.000003474	8		100%
1944	8	0.000002974	8		100%
1945	7	0.000002639	7		100%
1946	6	0.000001878	6		100%
1947	8	0.000002221	8		100%
1948	6	0.000001738	6		100%
1949	6	0.000001722		6	-100%
1950	6	0.000001713		6	-100%
1951	5	0.000001357		5	-100%
1952	18	0.000004739	9	9	0%
1953	13	0.000003373	5	8	-23%
1954	32	0.000008039	18	14	13%
1955	21	0.00000523	11	10	5%
1956	25	0.000006063	13	12	4%
1957	20	0.000004759	9	11	-10%
1958	27	0.000006531	15	12	11%
1959	30	0.000007215	16	14	7%
1960	23	0.000005537	16	7	39%
1961	11	0.000002656	11		100%
1962	41	0.00001016	26	15	27%
1963	44	0.000011116	32	12	45%
1964	51	0.000013119	36	15	41%
1965	65	0.000017929	44	21	35%
1966	58	0.000016688	52	6	79%
1967	90	0.00002651	73	17	62%
1968	111	0.000032856	94	17	69%
1969	152	0.000043737	126	26	66%
1970	166	0.000046028	137	29	65%
1971	177	0.000051568	143	34	62%
1972	146	0.000046453	109	37	49%
1973	164	0.000054361	134	30	63%
1974	301	0.000099013	260	41	73%
1975	264	0.000087435	220	44	67%
1976	218	0.000071845	176	42	61%
1977	218	0.000068629	184	34	69%
1978	236	0.000074357	209	27	77%
1979	283	0.000085062	252	31	78%
1980	508	0.000147481	478	30	88%
1981	557	0.000161012	526	31	89%
1982	601	0.000171325	569	32	89%
1983	537	0.000155053	503	34	87%
1984	555	0.000159083	501	54	81%
1985	560	0.000156902	511	49	82%
1986	494	0.000138878	453	41	83%
1987	435	0.000120645	376	59	73%
1988	479	0.000129633	428	51	79%
1989	451	0.000117312	404	47	79%
1990	392	0.000099178	343	49	75%
1991	403	0.000103459	342	61	70%
1992	381	0.000099186	329	52	73%
1993	338	0.000089649	289	49	71%
1994	351	0.000094414	310	41	77%
1995	281	0.000076731	250	31	78%
1996	310	0.000084997	261	49	68%
1997	289	0.000079708	247	42	71%
1998	223	0.000060627	191	32	71%
1999	217	0.000058746	177	40	63%
2000	187	0.000049472	138	49	48%
2001	167	0.000044612	126	41	51%
2002	153	0.000040928	113	40	48%
2003	134	0.000035242	91	43	36%
2004	142	0.000037164	86	56	21%
2005	124	0.000032251	86	38	39%
2006	105	0.000026541	73	32	39%
2007	110	0.000027516	74	36	35%
2008	83	0.000021116	50	33	20%
2009	85	0.00002225	62	23	46%
2010	62	0.000016776	32	30	3%
2011	71	0.000019411	46	25	30%
2012	47	0.000012851	25	22	6%
2013	55	0.000015086	34	21	24%
2014	53	0.0000143	31	22	17%
2015	60	0.000016212	34	26	13%
2016	67	0.000018263	40	27	19%
2017	42	0.000011744	26	16	24%
2018	42	0.000011946	19	23	-10%
2019	29	0.000008355	16	13	10%
2020	39	0.000011675	17	22	-13%
2021	27	0.000007969	10	17	-26%
2022	25	0.00000739	11	14	-12%
2023	25	0.00000755	11	14	-12%
2024	18	0.000005408	9	9	0%

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