Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Courage” in the USA?

Number of people named “Courage” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Courage” by birth year

This chart shows how “Courage” 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
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 -100%
2008 12 0.000003053 5 7 -17%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 -100%
2011 18 0.000004921 7 11 -22%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 -100%
2014 21 0.000005666 7 14 -33%
2015 12 0.000003242 12 -100%
2016 15 0.000004089 15 -100%
2017 15 0.000004194 7 8 -7%
2018 25 0.000007111 11 14 -12%
2019 25 0.000007203 7 18 -44%
2020 16 0.00000479 6 10 -25%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 -100%
2022 17 0.000005025 6 11 -29%
2023 20 0.00000604 6 14 -40%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

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