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How popular is “Cowen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cowen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cowen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cowen” 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
2004 14 0.000003664 14 -100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 -100%
2006 17 0.000004297 17 -100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 15 0.000003927 15 -100%
2010 20 0.000005412 20 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 -100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 -100%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 -100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 -100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 -100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 -100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 -100%
2023 14 0.000004228 14 -100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 -100%

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