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How popular is “Cullen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cullen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cullen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cullen” 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
1880 9 0.000044669 9 -100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 -100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 -100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 -100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 -100%
1912 17 0.000017205 17 -100%
1913 21 0.000018468 21 -100%
1914 27 0.000019063 27 -100%
1915 35 0.0000191 35 -100%
1916 30 0.000015509 30 -100%
1917 28 0.000013953 28 -100%
1918 34 0.00001566 34 -100%
1919 29 0.000013742 29 -100%
1920 25 0.000011049 25 -100%
1921 42 0.000017991 42 -100%
1922 39 0.000017037 39 -100%
1923 21 0.000009121 21 -100%
1924 29 0.000012177 29 -100%
1925 37 0.000015857 37 -100%
1926 34 0.000014809 34 -100%
1927 32 0.000013797 32 -100%
1928 28 0.000012384 28 -100%
1929 21 0.00000958 21 -100%
1930 26 0.000011694 26 -100%
1931 25 0.00001188 25 -100%
1932 20 0.000009473 20 -100%
1933 28 0.000014004 28 -100%
1934 24 0.000011556 24 -100%
1935 28 0.000013398 28 -100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 -100%
1937 20 0.000009387 20 -100%
1938 22 0.000009943 22 -100%
1939 21 0.000009531 21 -100%
1940 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1941 31 0.000012724 31 -100%
1942 19 0.000006955 19 -100%
1943 34 0.000012046 34 -100%
1944 17 0.00000632 17 -100%
1945 19 0.000007162 19 -100%
1946 24 0.000007511 24 -100%
1947 24 0.000006662 24 -100%
1948 23 0.000006662 23 -100%
1949 20 0.000005739 20 -100%
1950 17 0.000004852 17 -100%
1951 23 0.000006244 23 -100%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 -100%
1953 22 0.000005709 22 -100%
1954 22 0.000005527 22 -100%
1955 28 0.000006974 28 -100%
1956 33 0.000008004 33 -100%
1957 27 0.000006425 27 -100%
1958 24 0.000005806 24 -100%
1959 37 0.000008899 37 -100%
1960 39 0.000009389 39 -100%
1961 34 0.000008208 34 -100%
1962 31 0.000007682 31 -100%
1963 23 0.000005811 23 -100%
1964 33 0.000008489 33 -100%
1965 21 0.000005792 21 -100%
1966 27 0.000007768 27 -100%
1967 26 0.000007659 26 -100%
1968 39 0.000011544 39 -100%
1969 50 0.000014387 50 -100%
1970 62 0.000017191 62 -100%
1971 53 0.000015441 53 -100%
1972 36 0.000011454 36 -100%
1973 56 0.000018562 56 -100%
1974 82 0.000026974 5 77 -88%
1975 58 0.000019209 58 -100%
1976 77 0.000025377 5 72 -87%
1977 57 0.000017944 57 -100%
1978 77 0.000024261 77 -100%
1979 99 0.000029757 99 -100%
1980 98 0.000028451 98 -100%
1981 107 0.00003093 5 102 -91%
1982 89 0.000025371 89 -100%
1983 97 0.000028008 97 -100%
1984 95 0.00002723 5 90 -89%
1985 100 0.000028018 100 -100%
1986 122 0.000034298 122 -100%
1987 151 0.000041879 5 146 -93%
1988 162 0.000043843 162 -100%
1989 182 0.000047341 5 177 -95%
1990 166 0.000041999 166 -100%
1991 198 0.000050831 198 -100%
1992 293 0.000076277 293 -100%
1993 337 0.000089383 337 -100%
1994 301 0.000080965 301 -100%
1995 407 0.000111137 7 400 -97%
1996 399 0.000109399 7 392 -96%
1997 411 0.000113356 6 405 -97%
1998 381 0.000103583 7 374 -96%
1999 353 0.000095564 353 -100%
2000 369 0.000097622 6 363 -97%
2001 336 0.000089758 336 -100%
2002 318 0.000085066 318 -100%
2003 284 0.000074691 284 -100%
2004 270 0.000070664 270 -100%
2005 278 0.000072305 278 -100%
2006 260 0.00006572 260 -100%
2007 286 0.000071541 286 -100%
2008 283 0.000071998 283 -100%
2009 567 0.000148423 5 562 -98%
2010 685 0.000185349 6 679 -98%
2011 574 0.000156925 6 568 -98%
2012 481 0.000131515 8 473 -97%
2013 455 0.000124806 8 447 -96%
2014 452 0.000121952 5 447 -98%
2015 497 0.000134291 5 492 -98%
2016 529 0.000144193 529 -100%
2017 556 0.000155473 556 -100%
2018 464 0.000131972 464 -100%
2019 411 0.000118412 411 -100%
2020 370 0.000110759 370 -100%
2021 342 0.000100946 342 -100%
2022 258 0.000076261 258 -100%
2023 219 0.000066139 219 -100%
2024 187 0.000056181 187 -100%

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