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How popular is “Claxton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Claxton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Claxton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Claxton” 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
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 15 0.000006629 15 -100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 -100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 -100%
1923 15 0.000006515 15 -100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 -100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 10 0.000003661 10 -100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 -100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 -100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%

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