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How popular is “Cletus” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cletus” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cletus” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cletus” 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
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1893 12 0.000036898 12 -100%
1894 10 0.000029526 10 -100%
1895 10 0.000028488 10 -100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 -100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 -100%
1898 13 0.00003408 5 8 -23%
1899 15 0.000044217 5 10 -33%
1900 15 0.000033314 15 -100%
1901 12 0.000034701 12 -100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 -100%
1903 15 0.000039349 15 -100%
1904 15 0.000037176 15 -100%
1905 19 0.00004482 19 -100%
1906 14 0.000032676 14 -100%
1907 24 0.00005157 24 -100%
1908 30 0.000061394 30 -100%
1909 31 0.000060639 31 -100%
1910 28 0.000047401 28 -100%
1911 39 0.000060533 5 34 -74%
1912 73 0.000073882 7 66 -81%
1913 90 0.000079148 7 83 -84%
1914 103 0.000072722 6 97 -88%
1915 163 0.000088953 9 154 -89%
1916 182 0.000094085 11 171 -88%
1917 201 0.000100162 12 189 -88%
1918 216 0.000099488 16 200 -85%
1919 181 0.000085772 13 168 -86%
1920 182 0.000080437 9 173 -90%
1921 187 0.000080103 13 174 -86%
1922 243 0.000106153 10 233 -92%
1923 200 0.000086863 200 -100%
1924 242 0.000101612 16 226 -87%
1925 197 0.00008443 13 184 -87%
1926 213 0.000092774 13 200 -88%
1927 206 0.000088818 13 193 -87%
1928 169 0.000074748 9 160 -89%
1929 173 0.000078918 14 159 -84%
1930 177 0.000079612 177 -100%
1931 143 0.000067953 11 132 -85%
1932 156 0.000073888 156 -100%
1933 131 0.000065518 6 125 -91%
1934 134 0.000064522 134 -100%
1935 142 0.000067946 5 137 -93%
1936 127 0.000061129 127 -100%
1937 125 0.000058667 6 119 -90%
1938 103 0.000046552 6 97 -88%
1939 99 0.00004493 99 -100%
1940 103 0.00004473 7 96 -86%
1941 110 0.000045148 5 105 -91%
1942 93 0.000034043 5 88 -89%
1943 106 0.000037555 5 101 -91%
1944 79 0.000029367 5 74 -87%
1945 88 0.000033171 88 -100%
1946 87 0.000027227 87 -100%
1947 79 0.00002193 79 -100%
1948 83 0.00002404 5 78 -88%
1949 82 0.000023531 82 -100%
1950 81 0.000023121 81 -100%
1951 86 0.000023346 86 -100%
1952 75 0.000019747 75 -100%
1953 62 0.000016089 62 -100%
1954 63 0.000015826 63 -100%
1955 67 0.000016687 67 -100%
1956 57 0.000013825 57 -100%
1957 64 0.00001523 64 -100%
1958 55 0.000013305 55 -100%
1959 51 0.000012266 51 -100%
1960 56 0.000013482 56 -100%
1961 64 0.00001545 64 -100%
1962 49 0.000012143 49 -100%
1963 62 0.000015664 62 -100%
1964 66 0.000016977 66 -100%
1965 54 0.000014895 54 -100%
1966 62 0.000017838 62 -100%
1967 52 0.000015317 52 -100%
1968 34 0.000010064 34 -100%
1969 37 0.000010646 37 -100%
1970 40 0.000011091 40 -100%
1971 31 0.000009032 31 -100%
1972 28 0.000008909 28 -100%
1973 22 0.000007292 22 -100%
1974 20 0.000006579 20 -100%
1975 18 0.000005961 18 -100%
1976 29 0.000009557 29 -100%
1977 21 0.000006611 21 -100%
1978 18 0.000005671 18 -100%
1979 24 0.000007214 24 -100%
1980 25 0.000007258 25 -100%
1981 28 0.000008094 28 -100%
1982 20 0.000005701 20 -100%
1983 21 0.000006064 21 -100%
1984 17 0.000004873 17 -100%
1985 19 0.000005323 19 -100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 -100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 -100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 -100%
1993 11 0.000002918 11 -100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 -100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 -100%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 -100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 -100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 -100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 -100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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