Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Cookie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cookie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cookie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cookie” 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
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 100%
1942 13 0.000004759 13 100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 100%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 100%
1947 18 0.000004997 18 100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 100%
1950 21 0.000005994 21 100%
1951 16 0.000004343 16 100%
1952 25 0.000006582 25 100%
1953 23 0.000005968 23 100%
1954 25 0.00000628 25 100%
1955 31 0.000007721 31 100%
1956 24 0.000005821 24 100%
1957 25 0.000005949 25 100%
1958 35 0.000008467 35 100%
1959 26 0.000006253 26 100%
1960 18 0.000004333 18 100%
1961 15 0.000003621 15 100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%

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