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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Copper” in the USA?

Number of people named “Copper” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Copper” by birth year

This chart shows how “Copper” 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
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 5 7 -17%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 18 0.00000487 6 12 -33%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 24 0.000006562 5 19 -58%
2013 18 0.000004937 5 13 -44%
2014 35 0.000009443 10 25 -43%
2015 32 0.000008647 11 21 -31%
2016 41 0.000011176 11 30 -46%
2017 28 0.00000783 6 22 -57%
2018 22 0.000006257 10 12 -9%
2019 35 0.000010084 15 20 -14%
2020 41 0.000012273 9 32 -56%
2021 34 0.000010036 6 28 -65%
2022 45 0.000013301 16 29 -29%
2023 48 0.000014496 11 37 -54%
2024 37 0.000011116 12 25 -35%

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