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How popular is “Colin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Colin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Colin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Colin” 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 6 0.000029779 6 -100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1886 7 0.000027417 7 -100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1897 8 0.000023058 8 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 -100%
1912 12 0.000012145 12 -100%
1913 17 0.00001495 17 -100%
1914 23 0.000016239 23 -100%
1915 31 0.000016917 31 -100%
1916 42 0.000021712 42 -100%
1917 42 0.000020929 42 -100%
1918 45 0.000020727 45 -100%
1919 43 0.000020377 43 -100%
1920 42 0.000018562 42 -100%
1921 35 0.000014992 35 -100%
1922 34 0.000014853 34 -100%
1923 43 0.000018676 43 -100%
1924 41 0.000017215 41 -100%
1925 39 0.000016715 39 -100%
1926 45 0.0000196 45 -100%
1927 41 0.000017677 41 -100%
1928 52 0.000022999 52 -100%
1929 40 0.000018247 40 -100%
1930 43 0.000019341 43 -100%
1931 28 0.000013306 28 -100%
1932 44 0.00002084 44 -100%
1933 50 0.000025007 50 -100%
1934 64 0.000030816 64 -100%
1935 54 0.000025839 54 -100%
1936 46 0.000022141 46 -100%
1937 52 0.000024405 52 -100%
1938 55 0.000024858 55 -100%
1939 55 0.000024961 55 -100%
1940 58 0.000025188 58 -100%
1941 75 0.000030783 75 -100%
1942 349 0.000127754 349 -100%
1943 320 0.000113372 320 -100%
1944 237 0.000088102 237 -100%
1945 125 0.000047118 125 -100%
1946 148 0.000046318 148 -100%
1947 176 0.000048857 176 -100%
1948 221 0.000064011 221 -100%
1949 210 0.000060262 210 -100%
1950 195 0.000055661 195 -100%
1951 194 0.000052664 194 -100%
1952 198 0.000052133 198 -100%
1953 213 0.000055272 213 -100%
1954 244 0.000061296 244 -100%
1955 256 0.00006376 256 -100%
1956 286 0.000069366 286 -100%
1957 269 0.000064015 269 -100%
1958 281 0.000067974 281 -100%
1959 323 0.000077682 323 -100%
1960 301 0.000072464 7 294 -95%
1961 357 0.000086184 357 -100%
1962 350 0.000086733 350 -100%
1963 397 0.000100298 5 392 -97%
1964 391 0.000100576 391 -100%
1965 453 0.00012495 453 -100%
1966 403 0.000115949 403 -100%
1967 445 0.000131079 445 -100%
1968 502 0.00014859 502 -100%
1969 589 0.000169481 10 579 -97%
1970 631 0.000174961 7 624 -98%
1971 665 0.000193745 7 658 -98%
1972 573 0.00018231 7 566 -98%
1973 566 0.000187611 5 561 -98%
1974 673 0.000221382 6 667 -98%
1975 706 0.000233822 706 -100%
1976 800 0.000263652 10 790 -98%
1977 839 0.000264128 12 827 -97%
1978 953 0.000300264 5 948 -99%
1979 1153 0.000346558 12 1141 -98%
1980 1210 0.000351284 14 1196 -98%
1981 1243 0.000359313 16 1227 -97%
1982 1544 0.000440142 7 1537 -99%
1983 1569 0.000453031 12 1557 -98%
1984 1787 0.000512217 19 1768 -98%
1985 1755 0.000491719 17 1738 -98%
1986 1706 0.000479607 16 1690 -98%
1987 2115 0.000586585 17 2098 -98%
1988 2273 0.000615148 15 2258 -99%
1989 2621 0.000681763 17 2604 -99%
1990 2801 0.000708669 19 2782 -99%
1991 2309 0.000592771 15 2294 -99%
1992 2641 0.000687532 11 2630 -99%
1993 2911 0.000772091 14 2897 -99%
1994 2823 0.00075935 8 2815 -99%
1995 2635 0.000719522 5 2630 -100%
1996 2964 0.000812679 11 2953 -99%
1997 3109 0.000857478 10 3099 -99%
1998 3083 0.00083818 7 3076 -100%
1999 3086 0.000835439 6 3080 -100%
2000 3263 0.000863249 8 3255 -100%
2001 3180 0.000849497 10 3170 -99%
2002 3315 0.000886769 3315 -100%
2003 4883 0.001284216 7 4876 -100%
2004 5147 0.001347057 25 5122 -99%
2005 4540 0.001180802 8 4532 -100%
2006 3866 0.000977203 5 3861 -100%
2007 3614 0.000904024 6 3608 -100%
2008 3732 0.000949458 3732 -100%
2009 3657 0.000957286 3657 -100%
2010 3489 0.00094406 3489 -100%
2011 3272 0.000894529 7 3265 -100%
2012 3022 0.000826277 3022 -100%
2013 3041 0.000834141 3041 -100%
2014 2888 0.000779198 5 2883 -100%
2015 2429 0.000656325 5 2424 -100%
2016 2052 0.000559326 2052 -100%
2017 1666 0.000465858 1666 -100%
2018 1479 0.000420661 1479 -100%
2019 1394 0.000401621 1394 -100%
2020 1181 0.000353532 5 1176 -99%
2021 1293 0.000381647 5 1288 -99%
2022 1170 0.000345833 1170 -100%
2023 1004 0.000303214 1004 -100%
2024 1035 0.000310951 1035 -100%

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