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How popular is “Cranston” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cranston” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cranston” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cranston” 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
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1942 11 0.000004027 11 -100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 -100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 -100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1949 10 0.00000287 10 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 -100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 -100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 -100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 -100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%

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