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How popular is “Cleo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cleo” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cleo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cleo” 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 22 0.00010919 17 5 55%
1881 23 0.000119364 23 100%
1882 18 0.000081252 18 100%
1883 26 0.000119845 26 100%
1884 36 0.000147868 30 6 67%
1885 40 0.000166076 32 8 60%
1886 50 0.000195836 42 8 68%
1887 43 0.000173813 37 6 72%
1888 75 0.000250439 63 12 68%
1889 77 0.000266486 70 7 82%
1890 93 0.000308559 81 12 74%
1891 86 0.000299993 76 10 77%
1892 111 0.000331964 95 16 71%
1893 143 0.000439698 122 21 71%
1894 129 0.000380879 118 11 83%
1895 144 0.000410233 125 19 74%
1896 161 0.00045037 134 27 66%
1897 155 0.000446741 131 24 69%
1898 154 0.000403717 139 15 81%
1899 143 0.000421538 132 11 85%
1900 229 0.000508597 198 31 73%
1901 186 0.000537865 160 26 72%
1902 231 0.000597311 198 33 71%
1903 261 0.00068468 221 40 69%
1904 270 0.00066917 230 40 70%
1905 297 0.000700601 248 49 67%
1906 290 0.000676857 238 52 64%
1907 381 0.000818668 325 56 71%
1908 340 0.000695796 290 50 71%
1909 393 0.000768743 333 60 69%
1910 429 0.000726243 357 72 66%
1911 436 0.000676727 358 78 64%
1912 608 0.000615346 469 139 54%
1913 681 0.000598887 536 145 57%
1914 887 0.00062626 672 215 52%
1915 1263 0.00068925 914 349 45%
1916 1350 0.000697885 1031 319 53%
1917 1322 0.000658777 1009 313 53%
1918 1372 0.000631934 1009 363 47%
1919 1368 0.000648266 1013 355 48%
1920 1399 0.000618303 1049 350 50%
1921 1337 0.000572712 992 345 48%
1922 1300 0.000567895 991 309 52%
1923 1197 0.000519874 883 314 48%
1924 1209 0.00050764 909 300 50%
1925 1110 0.000475721 812 298 46%
1926 1010 0.000439914 730 280 45%
1927 997 0.00042986 662 335 33%
1928 847 0.000374623 606 241 43%
1929 782 0.000356726 584 198 49%
1930 723 0.000325194 515 208 42%
1931 705 0.000335014 482 223 37%
1932 655 0.000310237 455 200 39%
1933 632 0.000316087 417 215 32%
1934 654 0.000314905 448 206 37%
1935 593 0.000283746 426 167 44%
1936 529 0.000254623 350 179 32%
1937 550 0.000258135 391 159 42%
1938 565 0.000255359 387 178 37%
1939 453 0.000205587 312 141 38%
1940 440 0.000191081 301 139 37%
1941 413 0.000169511 275 138 33%
1942 432 0.000158136 277 155 28%
1943 377 0.000133567 244 133 29%
1944 330 0.000122673 213 117 29%
1945 289 0.000108937 182 107 26%
1946 333 0.000104215 203 130 22%
1947 353 0.000097992 212 141 20%
1948 268 0.000077625 168 100 25%
1949 274 0.000078628 164 110 20%
1950 256 0.000073073 156 100 22%
1951 228 0.000061894 133 95 17%
1952 273 0.00007188 167 106 22%
1953 241 0.000062538 135 106 12%
1954 226 0.000056774 143 83 27%
1955 243 0.000060522 147 96 21%
1956 233 0.000056512 142 91 22%
1957 183 0.000043549 106 77 16%
1958 155 0.000037495 98 57 26%
1959 158 0.000037999 94 64 19%
1960 122 0.000029371 71 51 16%
1961 136 0.000032832 76 60 12%
1962 120 0.000029737 79 41 32%
1963 102 0.000025769 55 47 8%
1964 127 0.000032668 75 52 18%
1965 107 0.000029514 60 47 12%
1966 104 0.000029922 53 51 2%
1967 72 0.000021208 39 33 8%
1968 68 0.000020128 37 31 9%
1969 72 0.000020717 33 39 -8%
1970 66 0.0000183 31 35 -6%
1971 68 0.000019811 34 34 0%
1972 60 0.00001909 35 25 17%
1973 74 0.000024529 40 34 8%
1974 64 0.000021053 40 24 25%
1975 72 0.000023846 28 44 -22%
1976 51 0.000016808 24 27 -6%
1977 69 0.000021722 32 37 -7%
1978 71 0.00002237 31 40 -13%
1979 67 0.000020138 36 31 7%
1980 55 0.000015967 29 26 5%
1981 50 0.000014453 25 25 0%
1982 56 0.000015964 24 32 -14%
1983 53 0.000015303 29 24 9%
1984 45 0.000012899 23 22 2%
1985 59 0.000016531 39 20 32%
1986 64 0.000017992 39 25 22%
1987 64 0.00001775 38 26 19%
1988 55 0.000014885 33 22 20%
1989 43 0.000011185 30 13 40%
1990 66 0.000016698 39 27 18%
1991 57 0.000014633 38 19 33%
1992 73 0.000019004 53 20 45%
1993 50 0.000013262 35 15 40%
1994 55 0.000014794 41 14 49%
1995 52 0.000014199 39 13 50%
1996 74 0.00002029 59 15 59%
1997 76 0.000020961 56 20 47%
1998 74 0.000020118 61 13 65%
1999 64 0.000017326 50 14 56%
2000 82 0.000021694 66 16 61%
2001 79 0.000021104 74 5 87%
2002 80 0.0000214 69 11 73%
2003 65 0.000017095 58 7 78%
2004 57 0.000014918 51 6 79%
2005 63 0.000016386 51 12 62%
2006 64 0.000016177 58 6 81%
2007 75 0.000018761 63 12 68%
2008 61 0.000015519 48 13 57%
2009 77 0.000020156 72 5 87%
2010 85 0.000022999 78 7 84%
2011 94 0.000025699 87 7 85%
2012 140 0.000038279 124 16 77%
2013 88 0.000024138 81 7 84%
2014 107 0.000028869 100 7 87%
2015 135 0.000036477 119 16 76%
2016 163 0.00004443 144 19 77%
2017 171 0.000047816 153 18 79%
2018 248 0.000070537 222 26 79%
2019 282 0.000081246 270 12 91%
2020 319 0.000095492 303 16 90%
2021 374 0.000110391 355 19 90%
2022 462 0.00013656 445 17 93%
2023 513 0.000154929 488 25 90%
2024 516 0.000155025 495 21 92%

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