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How popular is “Colleen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Colleen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Colleen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Colleen” 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
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 100%
1908 13 0.000026604 13 100%
1909 18 0.00003521 18 100%
1910 13 0.000022007 13 100%
1911 13 0.000020178 13 100%
1912 28 0.000028338 28 100%
1913 26 0.000022865 26 100%
1914 33 0.000023299 33 100%
1915 52 0.000028378 52 100%
1916 65 0.000033602 65 100%
1917 69 0.000034384 69 100%
1918 68 0.00003132 68 100%
1919 46 0.000021798 46 100%
1920 79 0.000034915 79 100%
1921 112 0.000047976 112 100%
1922 185 0.000080816 185 100%
1923 311 0.000135072 311 100%
1924 524 0.000220019 524 100%
1925 696 0.00029829 696 100%
1926 945 0.000411602 945 100%
1927 1068 0.000460472 1062 6 99%
1928 1099 0.000486081 1099 100%
1929 1067 0.000486734 1067 100%
1930 946 0.000425496 946 100%
1931 760 0.00036115 760 100%
1932 709 0.000335813 709 100%
1933 679 0.000339594 674 5 99%
1934 719 0.000346203 712 7 98%
1935 672 0.000321546 672 100%
1936 853 0.000410574 853 100%
1937 740 0.000347309 740 100%
1938 697 0.000315018 697 100%
1939 665 0.000301801 665 100%
1940 648 0.000281411 648 100%
1941 601 0.000246673 601 100%
1942 744 0.000272346 744 100%
1943 768 0.000272094 768 100%
1944 724 0.000269137 724 100%
1945 817 0.000307964 812 5 99%
1946 1093 0.000342064 1093 100%
1947 1267 0.000351718 1267 100%
1948 1783 0.000516435 1783 100%
1949 2032 0.000583108 2032 100%
1950 2619 0.000747568 2619 100%
1951 3048 0.00082742 3048 100%
1952 3471 0.000913901 3471 100%
1953 3383 0.00087787 3375 8 100%
1954 3483 0.00087497 3483 100%
1955 3870 0.000963866 3870 100%
1956 3901 0.000946147 3896 5 100%
1957 3898 0.000927622 3892 6 100%
1958 3930 0.000950675 3923 7 100%
1959 4342 0.001044254 4336 6 100%
1960 4456 0.001072749 4449 7 100%
1961 4528 0.001093112 4516 12 99%
1962 4425 0.001096553 4425 100%
1963 4455 0.001125512 4447 8 100%
1964 4558 0.001172444 4544 14 99%
1965 4040 0.001114345 4029 11 99%
1966 3759 0.001081523 3746 13 99%
1967 3628 0.001068663 3621 7 100%
1968 3491 0.001033325 3485 6 100%
1969 3422 0.000984657 3411 11 99%
1970 3339 0.000925825 3326 13 99%
1971 2958 0.000861799 2948 10 99%
1972 2513 0.000799556 2503 10 99%
1973 2313 0.000766684 2307 6 99%
1974 2354 0.000774342 2344 10 99%
1975 2111 0.000699147 2100 11 99%
1976 2050 0.000675609 2043 7 99%
1977 2006 0.000631514 1998 8 99%
1978 2057 0.000648105 2057 100%
1979 2146 0.000645026 2135 11 99%
1980 2139 0.000620989 2125 14 99%
1981 2076 0.000600108 2068 8 99%
1982 2153 0.000613747 2145 8 99%
1983 2018 0.000582675 2009 9 99%
1984 2073 0.000594195 2067 6 99%
1985 1970 0.000551958 1955 15 98%
1986 1848 0.000519528 1841 7 99%
1987 1756 0.000487018 1747 9 99%
1988 1710 0.000462782 1704 6 99%
1989 1821 0.00047367 1809 12 99%
1990 1808 0.000457435 1808 100%
1991 1600 0.000410755 1600 100%
1992 1669 0.000434491 1669 100%
1993 1585 0.000420393 1585 100%
1994 1415 0.000380616 1415 100%
1995 1257 0.000343241 1257 100%
1996 1059 0.00029036 1059 100%
1997 1003 0.000276632 1003 100%
1998 843 0.000229188 843 100%
1999 690 0.000186796 690 100%
2000 609 0.000161115 609 100%
2001 636 0.000169899 636 100%
2002 500 0.000133751 500 100%
2003 433 0.000113878 433 100%
2004 382 0.000099976 382 100%
2005 346 0.000089991 340 6 97%
2006 296 0.000074819 296 100%
2007 244 0.000061035 244 100%
2008 226 0.000057497 226 100%
2009 215 0.00005628 215 100%
2010 202 0.000054658 202 100%
2011 154 0.000042102 154 100%
2012 148 0.000040466 148 100%
2013 149 0.00004087 149 100%
2014 116 0.000031297 116 100%
2015 115 0.000031073 115 100%
2016 102 0.000027803 102 100%
2017 104 0.000029081 104 100%
2018 89 0.000025314 89 100%
2019 95 0.00002737 95 100%
2020 65 0.000019458 65 100%
2021 65 0.000019186 65 100%
2022 60 0.000017735 60 100%
2023 83 0.000025066 83 100%
2024 60 0.000018026 60 100%

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