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How popular is “Cooper” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cooper” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cooper” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cooper” 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
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1885 8 0.000033215 8 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 -100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 -100%
1911 10 0.000015521 10 -100%
1912 20 0.000020242 20 -100%
1913 12 0.000010553 12 -100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 18 0.000009823 18 -100%
1916 20 0.000010339 20 -100%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 -100%
1918 25 0.000011515 25 -100%
1919 23 0.000010899 23 -100%
1920 20 0.000008839 20 -100%
1921 18 0.00000771 18 -100%
1922 19 0.0000083 19 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 16 0.000006718 16 -100%
1925 17 0.000007286 17 -100%
1926 19 0.000008276 19 -100%
1927 16 0.000006898 16 -100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1929 22 0.000010036 22 -100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 -100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 -100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 -100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 -100%
1936 18 0.000008664 18 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 20 0.000009039 20 -100%
1939 13 0.0000059 13 -100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 -100%
1941 12 0.000004925 12 -100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 14 0.000005277 14 -100%
1946 19 0.000005946 19 -100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 -100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 19 0.000005158 19 -100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 -100%
1953 16 0.000004152 16 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 16 0.000003985 16 -100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1960 13 0.00000313 13 -100%
1961 13 0.000003138 13 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 18 0.000004548 18 -100%
1964 30 0.000007717 30 -100%
1965 26 0.000007172 26 -100%
1966 15 0.000004316 15 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 -100%
1969 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1970 20 0.000005546 20 -100%
1971 22 0.00000641 22 -100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 -100%
1973 17 0.000005635 17 -100%
1974 26 0.000008553 26 -100%
1975 21 0.000006955 21 -100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 -100%
1977 28 0.000008815 28 -100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 -100%
1979 50 0.000015029 50 -100%
1980 52 0.000015097 52 -100%
1981 52 0.000015032 52 -100%
1982 83 0.00002366 83 -100%
1983 71 0.0000205 71 -100%
1984 92 0.00002637 92 -100%
1985 117 0.000032781 7 110 -88%
1986 105 0.000029519 105 -100%
1987 136 0.000037719 136 -100%
1988 158 0.00004276 13 145 -84%
1989 174 0.00004526 174 -100%
1990 222 0.000056167 14 208 -87%
1991 274 0.000070342 7 267 -95%
1992 360 0.000093719 11 349 -94%
1993 431 0.000114315 5 426 -98%
1994 542 0.000145791 24 518 -91%
1995 650 0.000177491 18 632 -94%
1996 689 0.000188912 21 668 -94%
1997 864 0.000238296 25 839 -94%
1998 1197 0.00032543 20 1177 -97%
1999 1211 0.000327841 21 1190 -97%
2000 1431 0.000378581 26 1405 -96%
2001 1829 0.000488595 26 1803 -97%
2002 1964 0.000525374 33 1931 -97%
2003 2412 0.00063435 44 2368 -96%
2004 3128 0.00081865 83 3045 -95%
2005 3461 0.000900166 68 3393 -96%
2006 3815 0.000964312 68 3747 -96%
2007 4722 0.001181184 100 4622 -96%
2008 5173 0.001316062 122 5051 -95%
2009 5147 0.001347321 75 5072 -97%
2010 5345 0.00144626 85 5260 -97%
2011 5284 0.001444587 108 5176 -96%
2012 5297 0.00144831 103 5194 -96%
2013 5005 0.001372863 107 4898 -96%
2014 4972 0.001341472 122 4850 -95%
2015 5383 0.001454506 111 5272 -96%
2016 5099 0.001389866 125 4974 -95%
2017 4716 0.00131872 99 4617 -96%
2018 4582 0.001303224 109 4473 -95%
2019 4658 0.001342002 103 4555 -96%
2020 4709 0.001409637 117 4592 -95%
2021 4803 0.001417672 130 4673 -95%
2022 5773 0.001706405 145 5628 -95%
2023 5603 0.001692138 162 5441 -94%
2024 5843 0.001755445 144 5699 -95%

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