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How popular is “Coltrane” in the USA?

Number of people named “Coltrane” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Coltrane” by birth year

This chart shows how “Coltrane” 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
1997 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 -100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 -100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 -100%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 -100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 -100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 -100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 -100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 -100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 -100%
2010 20 0.000005412 20 -100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 -100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 -100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 -100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 -100%
2016 18 0.000004906 18 -100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 -100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 -100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 -100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 -100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 -100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 -100%

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