How popular is “Claire” in the USA?

Number of people named “Claire” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Claire” by birth year

This chart shows how “Claire” 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
1880	21	0.000104227	21		100%
1881	23	0.000119364	23		100%
1882	30	0.00013542	30		100%
1883	38	0.000175159	38		100%
1884	33	0.000135545	33		100%
1885	57	0.000236658	49	8	72%
1886	66	0.000258503	61	5	85%
1887	58	0.000234446	58		100%
1888	73	0.000243761	73		100%
1889	62	0.000214573	62		100%
1890	78	0.000258791	72	6	85%
1891	84	0.000293017	84		100%
1892	86	0.000257197	86		100%
1893	97	0.000298257	92	5	90%
1894	103	0.000304113	96	7	86%
1895	118	0.000336163	118		100%
1896	117	0.000327287	106	11	81%
1897	113	0.000325689	105	8	86%
1898	142	0.000372259	133	9	87%
1899	132	0.000389112	121	11	83%
1900	163	0.000362015	156	7	91%
1901	127	0.000367252	122	5	92%
1902	163	0.000421479	156	7	91%
1903	175	0.000459077	164	11	87%
1904	170	0.000421329	163	7	92%
1905	203	0.000478862	184	19	81%
1906	223	0.00052048	213	10	91%
1907	225	0.000483465	206	19	83%
1908	249	0.000509568	235	14	89%
1909	269	0.000526188	259	10	93%
1910	286	0.000484162	274	12	92%
1911	347	0.000538587	333	14	92%
1912	468	0.000473654	440	28	88%
1913	526	0.000462576	490	36	86%
1914	605	0.000427156	570	35	88%
1915	860	0.000469323	809	51	88%
1916	903	0.000466807	838	65	86%
1917	988	0.000492338	926	62	87%
1918	1135	0.000522774	1072	63	89%
1919	998	0.000472931	953	45	91%
1920	1091	0.000482179	1019	72	87%
1921	1281	0.000548724	1210	71	89%
1922	1405	0.000613763	1339	66	91%
1923	1467	0.000637139	1392	75	90%
1924	1650	0.000692809	1583	67	92%
1925	1569	0.000672438	1503	66	92%
1926	1730	0.000753516	1679	51	94%
1927	1901	0.000819623	1836	65	93%
1928	1797	0.000794803	1734	63	93%
1929	1759	0.000802405	1699	60	93%
1930	1702	0.000765533	1654	48	94%
1931	1692	0.000804034	1627	65	92%
1932	1544	0.000731306	1506	38	95%
1933	1409	0.000704695	1372	37	95%
1934	1353	0.000651478	1309	44	93%
1935	1163	0.000556486	1124	39	93%
1936	1123	0.000540533	1083	40	93%
1937	995	0.000466989	959	36	93%
1938	1101	0.00049761	1074	27	95%
1939	956	0.000433867	931	25	95%
1940	983	0.000426893	950	33	93%
1941	983	0.00040346	953	30	94%
1942	1063	0.000389118	1027	36	93%
1943	1025	0.000363146	1001	24	95%
1944	1024	0.000380658	1006	18	96%
1945	936	0.00035282	916	20	96%
1946	1132	0.00035427	1115	17	97%
1947	1202	0.000333674	1180	22	96%
1948	1042	0.000301809	1023	19	96%
1949	1107	0.000317667	1090	17	97%
1950	1056	0.000301425	1038	18	97%
1951	1082	0.000293723	1061	21	96%
1952	1100	0.000289626	1078	22	96%
1953	1105	0.000286742	1090	15	97%
1954	1055	0.000265028	1031	24	95%
1955	1001	0.00024931	993	8	98%
1956	998	0.000242055	985	13	97%
1957	1041	0.000247731	1030	11	98%
1958	968	0.000234161	962	6	99%
1959	1008	0.000242425	995	13	97%
1960	899	0.000216428	899		100%
1961	811	0.000195785	811		100%
1962	814	0.000201716	807	7	98%
1963	676	0.000170785	676		100%
1964	612	0.000157423	607	5	98%
1965	526	0.000145085	526		100%
1966	504	0.000145009	499	5	98%
1967	389	0.000114584	389		100%
1968	359	0.000106263	353	6	97%
1969	384	0.000110493	378	6	97%
1970	341	0.000094551	341		100%
1971	297	0.00008653	297		100%
1972	274	0.000087178	274		100%
1973	412	0.000136565	407	5	98%
1974	367	0.000120724	367		100%
1975	397	0.000131483	388	9	95%
1976	377	0.000124246	377		100%
1977	472	0.000148591	472		100%
1978	481	0.00015155	481		100%
1979	541	0.000162609	541		100%
1980	567	0.00016461	567		100%
1981	680	0.000196567	680		100%
1982	815	0.000232329	815		100%
1983	857	0.000247449	857		100%
1984	979	0.000280616	979		100%
1985	1193	0.000334257	1188	5	99%
1986	1317	0.000370248	1307	10	98%
1987	1345	0.000373029	1335	10	99%
1988	1453	0.00039323	1446	7	99%
1989	1691	0.000439855	1671	20	98%
1990	1865	0.000471856	1854	11	99%
1991	1826	0.000468774	1819	7	99%
1992	1949	0.000507384	1949		100%
1993	1902	0.000504472	1897	5	99%
1994	2175	0.000585047	2175		100%
1995	2474	0.000675559	2474		100%
1996	2741	0.000751536	2741		100%
1997	3039	0.000838172	3039		100%
1998	3647	0.000991516	3642	5	100%
1999	3734	0.001010865	3734		100%
2000	3711	0.000981771	3711		100%
2001	3642	0.000972915	3642		100%
2002	3405	0.000910844	3405		100%
2003	3571	0.000939164	3571		100%
2004	3344	0.000875181	3333	11	99%
2005	3300	0.000858292	3293	7	100%
2006	4013	0.00101436	4013		100%
2007	4619	0.001155419	4612	7	100%
2008	4608	0.001172321	4601	7	100%
2009	4832	0.001264864	4825	7	100%
2010	4916	0.001330181	4916		100%
2011	4900	0.001339606	4900		100%
2012	4944	0.001351792	4944		100%
2013	4660	0.00127823	4660		100%
2014	5015	0.001353074	5015		100%
2015	4837	0.001306975	4837		100%
2016	5216	0.001421758	5216		100%
2017	4707	0.001316203	4702	5	100%
2018	4405	0.001252881	4405		100%
2019	4130	0.001189882	4130		100%
2020	3837	0.001148604	3837		100%
2021	3708	0.001094467	3703	5	100%
2022	3380	0.000999073	3380		100%
2023	3199	0.000966116	3199		100%
2024	3329	0.00100015	3329		100%

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