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How popular is “Clark” in the USA?

Number of people named “Clark” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Clark” by birth year

This chart shows how “Clark” 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 49 0.000243195 49 -100%
1881 66 0.000342523 66 -100%
1882 54 0.000243756 54 -100%
1883 45 0.000207425 45 -100%
1884 55 0.000225909 55 -100%
1885 45 0.000186835 45 -100%
1886 49 0.000191919 49 -100%
1887 54 0.000218277 54 -100%
1888 45 0.000150263 45 -100%
1889 51 0.000176504 51 -100%
1890 51 0.00016921 51 -100%
1891 36 0.000125579 36 -100%
1892 61 0.00018243 61 -100%
1893 50 0.000153741 50 -100%
1894 50 0.000147628 50 -100%
1895 53 0.000150989 53 -100%
1896 58 0.000162245 58 -100%
1897 58 0.000167168 58 -100%
1898 42 0.000110105 42 -100%
1899 46 0.0001356 46 -100%
1900 75 0.000166571 75 -100%
1901 52 0.000150371 52 -100%
1902 31 0.000080159 31 -100%
1903 49 0.000128541 49 -100%
1904 46 0.000114007 46 -100%
1905 48 0.000113228 48 -100%
1906 53 0.000123701 53 -100%
1907 43 0.000092396 43 -100%
1908 54 0.000110509 54 -100%
1909 51 0.000099761 51 -100%
1910 71 0.000120194 71 -100%
1911 68 0.000105545 68 -100%
1912 187 0.000189259 187 -100%
1913 191 0.00016797 191 -100%
1914 242 0.000170862 242 -100%
1915 289 0.000157714 289 -100%
1916 336 0.000173696 336 -100%
1917 345 0.00017192 345 -100%
1918 334 0.000153838 7 327 -96%
1919 327 0.000154958 327 -100%
1920 313 0.000138334 5 308 -97%
1921 357 0.000152923 357 -100%
1922 326 0.000142411 326 -100%
1923 333 0.000144627 5 328 -97%
1924 283 0.000118827 283 -100%
1925 272 0.000116573 272 -100%
1926 264 0.000114987 264 -100%
1927 293 0.000126328 293 -100%
1928 240 0.000106151 240 -100%
1929 243 0.00011085 243 -100%
1930 260 0.000116944 5 255 -96%
1931 243 0.000115473 243 -100%
1932 336 0.000159144 336 -100%
1933 370 0.000185051 370 -100%
1934 429 0.000206566 429 -100%
1935 376 0.000179913 376 -100%
1936 437 0.000210341 437 -100%
1937 433 0.000203222 433 -100%
1938 488 0.000220558 488 -100%
1939 396 0.000179719 396 -100%
1940 427 0.000185436 427 -100%
1941 456 0.000187159 456 -100%
1942 538 0.000196938 538 -100%
1943 509 0.000180333 6 503 -98%
1944 437 0.000162449 437 -100%
1945 429 0.000161709 5 424 -98%
1946 523 0.000163678 523 -100%
1947 596 0.000165449 596 -100%
1948 551 0.000159594 551 -100%
1949 600 0.000172177 5 595 -98%
1950 624 0.000178115 624 -100%
1951 634 0.000172108 634 -100%
1952 637 0.00016772 637 -100%
1953 646 0.000167634 646 -100%
1954 718 0.00018037 718 -100%
1955 724 0.00018032 724 -100%
1956 709 0.000171961 709 -100%
1957 643 0.000153017 5 638 -98%
1958 670 0.000162074 670 -100%
1959 633 0.000152237 633 -100%
1960 607 0.000146131 607 -100%
1961 880 0.000212442 880 -100%
1962 803 0.00019899 5 798 -99%
1963 729 0.000184175 729 -100%
1964 668 0.000171828 668 -100%
1965 624 0.000172117 624 -100%
1966 528 0.000151914 528 -100%
1967 478 0.0001408 9 469 -96%
1968 431 0.000127575 5 426 -98%
1969 411 0.000118262 411 -100%
1970 381 0.000105642 381 -100%
1971 324 0.000094396 324 -100%
1972 273 0.00008686 273 -100%
1973 227 0.000075243 227 -100%
1974 197 0.000064803 197 -100%
1975 226 0.000074849 226 -100%
1976 197 0.000064924 197 -100%
1977 256 0.000080592 256 -100%
1978 214 0.000067426 214 -100%
1979 243 0.000073039 243 -100%
1980 262 0.000076063 262 -100%
1981 260 0.000075158 260 -100%
1982 305 0.000086945 305 -100%
1983 328 0.000094706 5 323 -97%
1984 302 0.000086564 302 -100%
1985 284 0.000079572 284 -100%
1986 321 0.000090243 5 316 -97%
1987 301 0.000083481 301 -100%
1988 319 0.000086332 319 -100%
1989 346 0.00009 5 341 -97%
1990 342 0.000086528 342 -100%
1991 303 0.000077787 303 -100%
1992 284 0.000073934 8 276 -94%
1993 270 0.000071613 6 264 -96%
1994 268 0.000072088 268 -100%
1995 285 0.000077823 285 -100%
1996 261 0.000071562 261 -100%
1997 250 0.000068951 5 245 -96%
1998 222 0.000060355 222 -100%
1999 226 0.000061182 226 -100%
2000 218 0.000057673 218 -100%
2001 201 0.000053695 201 -100%
2002 211 0.000056443 211 -100%
2003 220 0.000057859 220 -100%
2004 262 0.00006857 262 -100%
2005 251 0.000065282 6 245 -95%
2006 323 0.000081644 323 -100%
2007 392 0.000098057 7 385 -96%
2008 341 0.000086754 341 -100%
2009 336 0.000087954 336 -100%
2010 340 0.000091998 5 335 -97%
2011 392 0.000107168 7 385 -96%
2012 473 0.000129328 473 -100%
2013 629 0.000172534 12 617 -96%
2014 821 0.00022151 7 814 -98%
2015 883 0.00023859 15 868 -97%
2016 883 0.000240685 16 867 -96%
2017 881 0.000246351 20 861 -95%
2018 876 0.000249154 21 855 -95%
2019 826 0.000237976 22 804 -95%
2020 815 0.00024397 23 792 -94%
2021 819 0.000241739 26 793 -94%
2022 745 0.00022021 16 729 -96%
2023 726 0.000219256 17 709 -95%
2024 745 0.000223824 20 725 -95%

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