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How popular is “Cleveland” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cleveland” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cleveland” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cleveland” 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 11 0.000054595 11 -100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 -100%
1882 35 0.00015799 35 -100%
1883 35 0.00016133 35 -100%
1884 174 0.000714694 174 -100%
1885 147 0.000610328 147 -100%
1886 87 0.000340754 87 -100%
1887 54 0.000218277 54 -100%
1888 87 0.000290509 87 -100%
1889 60 0.000207651 60 -100%
1890 56 0.000185799 56 -100%
1891 50 0.000174415 50 -100%
1892 82 0.000245234 82 -100%
1893 66 0.000202938 66 -100%
1894 50 0.000147628 50 -100%
1895 51 0.000145291 51 -100%
1896 56 0.00015665 56 -100%
1897 39 0.000112406 39 -100%
1898 35 0.000091754 35 -100%
1899 39 0.000114965 39 -100%
1900 72 0.000159908 72 -100%
1901 30 0.000086752 30 -100%
1902 52 0.00013446 52 -100%
1903 42 0.000110178 42 -100%
1904 42 0.000104093 42 -100%
1905 54 0.000127382 54 -100%
1906 53 0.000123701 53 -100%
1907 66 0.000141817 66 -100%
1908 59 0.000120741 59 -100%
1909 83 0.000162355 83 -100%
1910 108 0.000182831 108 -100%
1911 110 0.000170734 110 -100%
1912 156 0.000157885 156 -100%
1913 173 0.00015214 173 -100%
1914 214 0.000151093 214 -100%
1915 244 0.000133157 244 -100%
1916 252 0.000130272 252 -100%
1917 287 0.000143017 287 -100%
1918 321 0.000147851 321 -100%
1919 354 0.000167753 354 -100%
1920 356 0.000157338 356 -100%
1921 339 0.000145213 339 -100%
1922 351 0.000153332 5 346 -97%
1923 341 0.000148101 5 336 -97%
1924 339 0.000142341 339 -100%
1925 296 0.000126859 296 -100%
1926 331 0.00014417 5 326 -97%
1927 330 0.000142281 5 325 -97%
1928 276 0.000122073 276 -100%
1929 244 0.000111306 244 -100%
1930 287 0.000129088 287 -100%
1931 244 0.000115948 244 -100%
1932 265 0.000125516 265 -100%
1933 245 0.000122534 245 -100%
1934 217 0.000104487 6 211 -94%
1935 266 0.000127279 7 259 -95%
1936 222 0.000106855 222 -100%
1937 246 0.000115457 246 -100%
1938 242 0.000109375 242 -100%
1939 266 0.00012072 7 259 -95%
1940 265 0.000115083 265 -100%
1941 254 0.000104251 7 247 -94%
1942 274 0.0001003 274 -100%
1943 289 0.000102389 289 -100%
1944 296 0.000110034 296 -100%
1945 283 0.000106675 283 -100%
1946 305 0.000095452 305 -100%
1947 368 0.000102156 8 360 -96%
1948 328 0.000095003 328 -100%
1949 323 0.000092689 323 -100%
1950 330 0.000094195 330 -100%
1951 318 0.000086325 318 -100%
1952 331 0.000087151 5 326 -97%
1953 330 0.000085633 330 -100%
1954 321 0.000080639 321 -100%
1955 325 0.000080945 325 -100%
1956 325 0.000078825 325 -100%
1957 292 0.000069488 292 -100%
1958 259 0.000062653 259 -100%
1959 248 0.000059644 5 243 -96%
1960 249 0.000059945 249 -100%
1961 249 0.000060112 249 -100%
1962 198 0.000049066 198 -100%
1963 208 0.000052549 6 202 -94%
1964 221 0.000056847 6 215 -95%
1965 218 0.00006013 218 -100%
1966 191 0.000054954 5 186 -95%
1967 196 0.000057734 196 -100%
1968 161 0.000047656 161 -100%
1969 181 0.000052081 181 -100%
1970 197 0.000054623 197 -100%
1971 189 0.000055064 189 -100%
1972 144 0.000045816 144 -100%
1973 170 0.000056349 170 -100%
1974 147 0.000048355 147 -100%
1975 150 0.000049679 150 -100%
1976 125 0.000041196 125 -100%
1977 133 0.00004187 133 -100%
1978 122 0.000038439 5 117 -92%
1979 126 0.000037872 126 -100%
1980 139 0.000040354 139 -100%
1981 116 0.000033532 116 -100%
1982 129 0.000036773 129 -100%
1983 128 0.000036959 128 -100%
1984 116 0.00003325 116 -100%
1985 92 0.000025777 92 -100%
1986 95 0.000026707 95 -100%
1987 91 0.000025238 91 -100%
1988 91 0.000024628 91 -100%
1989 110 0.000028613 110 -100%
1990 96 0.000024289 96 -100%
1991 96 0.000024645 96 -100%
1992 75 0.000019525 75 -100%
1993 87 0.000023075 87 -100%
1994 75 0.000020174 75 -100%
1995 68 0.000018568 68 -100%
1996 65 0.000017822 65 -100%
1997 62 0.0000171 62 -100%
1998 60 0.000016312 60 -100%
1999 59 0.000015972 59 -100%
2000 49 0.000012963 49 -100%
2001 62 0.000016563 62 -100%
2002 67 0.000017923 67 -100%
2003 52 0.000013676 52 -100%
2004 38 0.000009945 38 -100%
2005 47 0.000012224 47 -100%
2006 41 0.000010364 41 -100%
2007 42 0.000010506 42 -100%
2008 37 0.000009413 37 -100%
2009 39 0.000010209 39 -100%
2010 37 0.000010012 37 -100%
2011 43 0.000011756 43 -100%
2012 32 0.000008749 32 -100%
2013 22 0.000006035 22 -100%
2014 26 0.000007015 26 -100%
2015 25 0.000006755 25 -100%
2016 23 0.000006269 23 -100%
2017 28 0.00000783 28 -100%
2018 23 0.000006542 23 -100%
2019 21 0.00000605 21 -100%
2020 20 0.000005987 20 -100%
2021 21 0.000006198 21 -100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 11 0.000003322 11 -100%
2024 13 0.000003906 13 -100%

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