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How popular is “Dale” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dale” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dale” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dale” 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
1881 6 0.000031138 6 -100%
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1883 11 0.000050704 11 -100%
1884 10 0.000041074 10 -100%
1885 25 0.000103797 25 -100%
1886 17 0.000066584 17 -100%
1887 18 0.000072759 7 11 -22%
1888 21 0.000070123 6 15 -43%
1889 19 0.000065756 19 -100%
1890 19 0.000063039 5 14 -47%
1891 22 0.000076742 5 17 -55%
1892 30 0.00008972 8 22 -47%
1893 25 0.00007687 7 18 -44%
1894 38 0.000112197 10 28 -47%
1895 37 0.000105407 11 26 -41%
1896 43 0.000120285 7 36 -67%
1897 49 0.000141228 10 39 -59%
1898 47 0.000123212 7 40 -70%
1899 51 0.000150339 10 41 -61%
1900 70 0.000155466 16 54 -54%
1901 49 0.000141695 9 40 -63%
1902 77 0.000199104 14 63 -64%
1903 63 0.000165268 7 56 -78%
1904 65 0.000161096 12 53 -63%
1905 76 0.000179278 11 65 -71%
1906 75 0.000175049 9 66 -76%
1907 83 0.000178345 10 73 -76%
1908 117 0.000239436 17 100 -71%
1909 115 0.00022495 13 102 -77%
1910 149 0.000252238 24 125 -68%
1911 176 0.000273174 26 150 -70%
1912 406 0.000410905 35 371 -83%
1913 500 0.000439711 28 472 -89%
1914 724 0.000511175 33 691 -91%
1915 1134 0.000618852 53 1081 -91%
1916 1218 0.000629647 57 1161 -91%
1917 1305 0.000650305 57 1248 -91%
1918 1564 0.000720369 73 1491 -91%
1919 1501 0.000711292 73 1428 -90%
1920 1745 0.000771222 65 1680 -93%
1921 2029 0.000869135 73 1956 -93%
1922 2103 0.000918679 62 2041 -94%
1923 2258 0.000980681 86 2172 -92%
1924 2494 0.001047191 98 2396 -92%
1925 2386 0.001022585 84 2302 -93%
1926 2477 0.001078877 79 2398 -94%
1927 2592 0.001117551 89 2503 -93%
1928 2726 0.001205694 86 2640 -94%
1929 2733 0.001246715 69 2664 -95%
1930 3091 0.001390283 97 2994 -94%
1931 3083 0.001465034 75 3008 -95%
1932 3224 0.001527028 84 3140 -95%
1933 2990 0.001495413 65 2925 -96%
1934 3356 0.001615935 115 3241 -93%
1935 3426 0.001639313 153 3273 -91%
1936 3590 0.001727974 196 3394 -89%
1937 3522 0.001653001 182 3340 -90%
1938 3899 0.001762201 209 3690 -89%
1939 3811 0.001729567 280 3531 -85%
1940 4002 0.001737971 303 3699 -85%
1941 4114 0.00168854 324 3790 -84%
1942 4250 0.00155574 386 3864 -82%
1943 4679 0.001657716 445 4234 -81%
1944 4422 0.001643818 432 3990 -80%
1945 4444 0.001675142 487 3957 -78%
1946 5686 0.001779485 662 5024 -77%
1947 6753 0.001874624 817 5936 -76%
1948 6944 0.002011286 855 6089 -75%
1949 7104 0.002038582 875 6229 -75%
1950 7631 0.002178196 844 6787 -78%
1951 7891 0.002142117 927 6964 -77%
1952 8523 0.002244073 1108 7415 -74%
1953 8402 0.002180274 1053 7349 -75%
1954 8534 0.00214384 1095 7439 -74%
1955 8183 0.002038067 1001 7182 -76%
1956 8554 0.002074684 834 7720 -81%
1957 8530 0.002029917 665 7865 -84%
1958 9088 0.002198406 585 8503 -87%
1959 8872 0.002133722 529 8343 -88%
1960 8209 0.001976256 534 7675 -87%
1961 7640 0.001844386 448 7192 -88%
1962 6746 0.001671717 379 6367 -89%
1963 6062 0.001531504 367 5695 -88%
1964 5478 0.001409094 317 5161 -88%
1965 4655 0.001283979 258 4397 -89%
1966 4205 0.001209844 220 3985 -90%
1967 3703 0.001090755 167 3536 -91%
1968 3408 0.001008758 151 3257 -91%
1969 3343 0.000961925 188 3155 -89%
1970 3173 0.000879797 170 3003 -89%
1971 2687 0.000782844 141 2546 -90%
1972 2159 0.000686925 97 2062 -91%
1973 1876 0.000621833 75 1801 -92%
1974 1758 0.00057829 70 1688 -92%
1975 1589 0.000526265 61 1528 -92%
1976 1558 0.000513463 78 1480 -90%
1977 1409 0.000443571 49 1360 -93%
1978 1387 0.000437006 63 1324 -91%
1979 1320 0.000396754 46 1274 -93%
1980 1292 0.00037509 55 1237 -91%
1981 1296 0.000374634 48 1248 -93%
1982 1184 0.000337518 52 1132 -91%
1983 1147 0.000331183 51 1096 -91%
1984 1075 0.000308133 44 1031 -92%
1985 1134 0.000317726 41 1093 -93%
1986 1023 0.000287596 43 980 -92%
1987 969 0.000268748 38 931 -92%
1988 914 0.000247358 31 883 -93%
1989 888 0.000230983 33 855 -93%
1990 944 0.000238838 37 907 -92%
1991 786 0.000201783 27 759 -93%
1992 740 0.000192644 37 703 -90%
1993 669 0.00017744 28 641 -92%
1994 691 0.00018587 41 650 -88%
1995 595 0.000162473 25 570 -92%
1996 575 0.000157655 20 555 -93%
1997 521 0.000143694 18 503 -93%
1998 505 0.000137295 22 483 -91%
1999 452 0.000122365 10 442 -96%
2000 419 0.000110849 12 407 -94%
2001 634 0.000169365 22 612 -93%
2002 479 0.000128133 13 466 -95%
2003 422 0.000110985 14 408 -93%
2004 362 0.000094742 9 353 -95%
2005 333 0.000086609 10 323 -94%
2006 296 0.000074819 7 289 -95%
2007 292 0.000073042 8 284 -95%
2008 271 0.000068945 10 261 -93%
2009 225 0.000058898 225 -100%
2010 195 0.000052763 5 190 -95%
2011 166 0.000045383 166 -100%
2012 165 0.000045114 165 -100%
2013 157 0.000043065 11 146 -86%
2014 186 0.000050184 5 181 -95%
2015 177 0.000047826 177 -100%
2016 181 0.000049336 8 173 -91%
2017 155 0.000043342 5 150 -94%
2018 132 0.000037544 5 127 -92%
2019 118 0.000033997 118 -100%
2020 131 0.000039215 131 -100%
2021 139 0.000041028 9 130 -87%
2022 114 0.000033697 114 -100%
2023 134 0.000040469 5 129 -93%
2024 149 0.000044765 149 -100%

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