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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Claude” in the USA?

Number of people named “Claude” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Claude” by birth year

This chart shows how “Claude” 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 319 0.001583252 10 309 -94%
1881 311 0.001614008 9 302 -94%
1882 364 0.001643096 8 356 -96%
1883 321 0.001479631 6 315 -96%
1884 353 0.001449924 353 -100%
1885 350 0.001453163 7 343 -96%
1886 401 0.001570603 10 391 -95%
1887 383 0.00154815 8 375 -96%
1888 382 0.00127557 8 374 -96%
1889 391 0.001353194 5 386 -97%
1890 359 0.001191104 12 347 -93%
1891 334 0.001165091 7 327 -96%
1892 363 0.001085611 10 353 -94%
1893 403 0.00123915 9 394 -96%
1894 419 0.001237119 419 -100%
1895 402 0.001145234 13 389 -94%
1896 407 0.001138513 9 398 -96%
1897 361 0.001040475 16 345 -91%
1898 382 0.001001429 11 371 -94%
1899 300 0.000884345 7 293 -95%
1900 445 0.000988322 12 433 -95%
1901 341 0.000986085 341 -100%
1902 342 0.000884331 6 336 -96%
1903 309 0.000810598 8 301 -95%
1904 346 0.000857529 9 337 -95%
1905 399 0.000941211 399 -100%
1906 352 0.000821564 6 346 -97%
1907 369 0.000792883 5 364 -97%
1908 433 0.000886117 5 428 -98%
1909 427 0.00083525 8 419 -96%
1910 472 0.000799037 9 463 -96%
1911 472 0.000732603 6 466 -97%
1912 898 0.00090885 8 890 -98%
1913 1089 0.000957691 13 1076 -98%
1914 1297 0.000915738 13 1284 -98%
1915 1618 0.000882982 13 1605 -98%
1916 1742 0.00090053 9 1733 -99%
1917 1638 0.000816245 13 1625 -98%
1918 1897 0.000873746 19 1878 -98%
1919 1785 0.000845873 13 1772 -99%
1920 1910 0.000844146 17 1893 -98%
1921 1907 0.000816876 20 1887 -98%
1922 1826 0.000797674 20 1806 -98%
1923 1712 0.000743546 18 1694 -98%
1924 1721 0.00072262 15 1706 -98%
1925 1712 0.000733724 16 1696 -98%
1926 1736 0.000756129 22 1714 -97%
1927 1635 0.000704936 14 1621 -98%
1928 1556 0.00068821 23 1533 -97%
1929 1475 0.000672852 26 1449 -96%
1930 1496 0.000672877 15 1481 -98%
1931 1310 0.000622509 14 1296 -98%
1932 1373 0.000650313 21 1352 -97%
1933 1264 0.000632175 11 1253 -98%
1934 1272 0.000612476 8 1264 -99%
1935 1276 0.000610556 12 1264 -98%
1936 1240 0.000596849 15 1225 -98%
1937 1145 0.00053739 7 1138 -99%
1938 1319 0.000596138 8 1311 -99%
1939 1170 0.000530987 13 1157 -98%
1940 1202 0.000521999 8 1194 -99%
1941 1189 0.00048801 1189 -100%
1942 1320 0.000483195 6 1314 -99%
1943 1372 0.000486084 8 1364 -99%
1944 1300 0.000483257 11 1289 -98%
1945 1166 0.000439517 1166 -100%
1946 1315 0.000411541 9 1306 -99%
1947 1440 0.000399742 7 1433 -99%
1948 1354 0.000392178 9 1345 -99%
1949 1228 0.00035239 8 1220 -99%
1950 1262 0.000360226 9 1253 -99%
1951 1248 0.000338786 9 1239 -99%
1952 1150 0.000302791 6 1144 -99%
1953 1150 0.000298419 11 1139 -98%
1954 1148 0.000288391 6 1142 -99%
1955 1092 0.000271975 8 1084 -99%
1956 1014 0.000245935 10 1004 -98%
1957 1030 0.000245113 6 1024 -99%
1958 958 0.000231742 7 951 -99%
1959 866 0.000208274 14 852 -97%
1960 851 0.000204872 13 838 -97%
1961 813 0.000196268 10 803 -98%
1962 707 0.000175201 6 701 -98%
1963 749 0.000189227 6 743 -98%
1964 727 0.000187005 9 718 -98%
1965 603 0.000166324 603 -100%
1966 555 0.000159682 7 548 -97%
1967 513 0.000151109 7 506 -97%
1968 535 0.000158358 5 530 -98%
1969 456 0.000131211 8 448 -96%
1970 453 0.000125606 6 447 -97%
1971 430 0.000125278 8 422 -96%
1972 371 0.00011804 9 362 -95%
1973 329 0.000109053 5 324 -97%
1974 327 0.000107566 8 319 -95%
1975 323 0.000106975 6 317 -96%
1976 275 0.00009063 7 268 -95%
1977 255 0.000080277 255 -100%
1978 262 0.000082549 262 -100%
1979 276 0.000082958 8 268 -94%
1980 273 0.000079257 5 268 -96%
1981 240 0.000069377 7 233 -94%
1982 235 0.00006699 235 -100%
1983 184 0.000053128 184 -100%
1984 188 0.000053887 188 -100%
1985 189 0.000052954 189 -100%
1986 177 0.00004976 177 -100%
1987 209 0.000057965 209 -100%
1988 181 0.000048985 181 -100%
1989 170 0.00004422 170 -100%
1990 151 0.000038204 151 -100%
1991 146 0.000037481 146 -100%
1992 142 0.000036967 142 -100%
1993 148 0.000039254 5 143 -93%
1994 119 0.000032009 119 -100%
1995 113 0.000030856 113 -100%
1996 108 0.000029612 108 -100%
1997 89 0.000024547 89 -100%
1998 93 0.000025284 93 -100%
1999 91 0.000024635 91 -100%
2000 99 0.000026191 99 -100%
2001 69 0.000018432 69 -100%
2002 70 0.000018725 70 -100%
2003 82 0.000021566 82 -100%
2004 65 0.000017012 65 -100%
2005 70 0.000018206 70 -100%
2006 62 0.000015672 62 -100%
2007 58 0.000014508 58 -100%
2008 66 0.000016791 66 -100%
2009 58 0.000015183 58 -100%
2010 55 0.000014882 55 -100%
2011 47 0.000012849 47 -100%
2012 45 0.000012304 45 -100%
2013 43 0.000011795 43 -100%
2014 42 0.000011332 42 -100%
2015 52 0.000014051 52 -100%
2016 55 0.000014992 55 -100%
2017 40 0.000011185 40 -100%
2018 51 0.000014506 51 -100%
2019 42 0.0000121 42 -100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 -100%
2021 38 0.000011216 38 -100%
2022 34 0.00001005 34 -100%
2023 39 0.000011778 39 -100%
2024 35 0.000010515 35 -100%

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