Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Cleave” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cleave” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cleave” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cleave” 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
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 -100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 -100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 -100%
1918 16 0.000007369 16 -100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 -100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 -100%
1921 11 0.000004712 11 -100%
1922 15 0.000006553 15 -100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 -100%
1927 12 0.000005174 12 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 -100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 -100%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 -100%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 -100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 -100%
1937 12 0.000005632 12 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%

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