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How popular is “Colson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Colson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Colson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Colson” 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
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 -100%
1992 13 0.000003384 13 -100%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 -100%
1994 19 0.000005111 19 -100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 27 0.000007403 27 -100%
1997 35 0.000009653 35 -100%
1998 42 0.000011419 42 -100%
1999 47 0.000012724 47 -100%
2000 53 0.000014022 53 -100%
2001 96 0.000025645 96 -100%
2002 61 0.000016318 61 -100%
2003 76 0.000019988 76 -100%
2004 97 0.000025387 97 -100%
2005 88 0.000022888 88 -100%
2006 95 0.000024013 95 -100%
2007 132 0.000033019 132 -100%
2008 131 0.000033328 131 -100%
2009 122 0.000031936 122 -100%
2010 151 0.000040858 151 -100%
2011 178 0.000048663 178 -100%
2012 145 0.000039646 145 -100%
2013 153 0.000041968 153 -100%
2014 144 0.000038852 144 -100%
2015 173 0.000046745 173 -100%
2016 188 0.000051244 188 -100%
2017 323 0.000090319 323 -100%
2018 409 0.000116329 409 -100%
2019 657 0.000189286 657 -100%
2020 902 0.000270013 902 -100%
2021 1024 0.000302248 1024 -100%
2022 1058 0.000312728 1058 -100%
2023 950 0.000286905 950 -100%
2024 946 0.000284212 946 -100%

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