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How popular is “Contessa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Contessa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Contessa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Contessa” 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 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 100%
1970 26 0.000007209 26 100%
1971 33 0.000009614 33 100%
1972 46 0.000014636 46 100%
1973 96 0.000031821 96 100%
1974 56 0.000018421 56 100%
1975 66 0.000021859 66 100%
1976 57 0.000018785 57 100%
1977 45 0.000014167 45 100%
1978 41 0.000012918 41 100%
1979 39 0.000011722 39 100%
1980 38 0.000011032 38 100%
1981 44 0.000012719 44 100%
1982 69 0.00001967 69 100%
1983 130 0.000037536 130 100%
1984 83 0.000023791 83 100%
1985 72 0.000020173 72 100%
1986 42 0.000011807 42 100%
1987 42 0.000011649 42 100%
1988 51 0.000013802 51 100%
1989 61 0.000015867 61 100%
1990 47 0.000011891 47 100%
1991 36 0.000009242 36 100%
1992 33 0.000008591 33 100%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 100%
1994 32 0.000008608 32 100%
1995 31 0.000008465 31 100%
1996 27 0.000007403 27 100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 100%
1998 30 0.000008156 30 100%
1999 25 0.000006768 25 100%
2000 19 0.000005027 19 100%
2001 20 0.000005343 20 100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 100%
2003 24 0.000006312 24 100%
2004 42 0.000010992 42 100%
2005 30 0.000007803 30 100%
2006 36 0.0000091 36 100%
2007 38 0.000009506 38 100%
2008 37 0.000009413 37 100%
2009 26 0.000006806 26 100%
2010 33 0.000008929 33 100%
2011 21 0.000005741 21 100%
2012 25 0.000006836 25 100%
2013 26 0.000007132 26 100%
2014 20 0.000005396 20 100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 100%
2023 13 0.000003926 13 100%

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