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How popular is “Clearance” in the USA?

Number of people named “Clearance” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Clearance” by birth year

This chart shows how “Clearance” 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
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 -100%
1917 14 0.000006976 14 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 14 0.000006187 14 -100%
1921 20 0.000008567 20 -100%
1922 18 0.000007863 18 -100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 -100%
1924 24 0.000010077 24 -100%
1925 28 0.000012 28 -100%
1926 20 0.000008711 20 -100%
1927 25 0.000010779 25 -100%
1928 25 0.000011057 25 -100%
1929 16 0.000007299 16 -100%
1930 17 0.000007646 17 -100%
1931 16 0.000007603 16 -100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 -100%
1933 22 0.000011003 22 -100%
1934 25 0.000012038 25 -100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 -100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 -100%
1937 17 0.000007979 17 -100%
1938 15 0.000006779 15 -100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 16 0.000006567 16 -100%
1942 22 0.000008053 22 -100%
1943 15 0.000005314 15 -100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 -100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 -100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%

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