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How popular is “Colt” in the USA?

Number of people named “Colt” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Colt” by birth year

This chart shows how “Colt” 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
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 -100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 -100%
1972 14 0.000004454 14 -100%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 -100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 -100%
1975 15 0.000004968 15 -100%
1976 13 0.000004284 13 -100%
1977 16 0.000005037 16 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1979 20 0.000006011 20 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 20 0.000005781 20 -100%
1982 344 0.000098063 344 -100%
1983 357 0.00010308 6 351 -97%
1984 273 0.000078251 273 -100%
1985 275 0.00007705 5 270 -96%
1986 224 0.000062973 224 -100%
1987 266 0.000073774 266 -100%
1988 195 0.000052773 195 -100%
1989 167 0.000043439 167 -100%
1990 174 0.000044023 174 -100%
1991 201 0.000051601 201 -100%
1992 225 0.000058574 225 -100%
1993 236 0.000062595 236 -100%
1994 254 0.000068323 254 -100%
1995 236 0.000064443 236 -100%
1996 246 0.000067449 246 -100%
1997 242 0.000066745 242 -100%
1998 210 0.000057093 210 -100%
1999 194 0.000052519 194 -100%
2000 197 0.000052118 197 -100%
2001 190 0.000050756 190 -100%
2002 195 0.000052163 195 -100%
2003 157 0.000041291 157 -100%
2004 143 0.000037426 143 -100%
2005 186 0.000048376 186 -100%
2006 212 0.000053587 212 -100%
2007 428 0.000107062 428 -100%
2008 502 0.000127714 502 -100%
2009 821 0.000214912 821 -100%
2010 944 0.000255429 944 -100%
2011 954 0.000260813 954 -100%
2012 958 0.000261937 958 -100%
2013 974 0.000267166 974 -100%
2014 979 0.000264139 979 -100%
2015 1018 0.000275067 1018 -100%
2016 1033 0.000281571 1033 -100%
2017 1333 0.000372743 1333 -100%
2018 1628 0.00046304 1628 -100%
2019 1833 0.0005281 1833 -100%
2020 1686 0.000504703 1686 -100%
2021 1736 0.000512404 1736 -100%
2022 1461 0.000431848 1461 -100%
2023 1302 0.000393211 1302 -100%
2024 1224 0.000367733 1224 -100%

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