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How popular is “Dalton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dalton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dalton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dalton” 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 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1885 8 0.000033215 8 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1894 13 0.000038383 13 -100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 -100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1900 16 0.000035535 16 -100%
1902 13 0.000033615 13 -100%
1903 9 0.00002361 9 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 -100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 -100%
1907 13 0.000027934 13 -100%
1908 16 0.000032743 16 -100%
1909 15 0.000029341 15 -100%
1910 22 0.000037243 22 -100%
1911 23 0.000035699 23 -100%
1912 50 0.000050604 50 -100%
1913 61 0.000053645 61 -100%
1914 66 0.000046599 66 -100%
1915 93 0.000050752 93 -100%
1916 126 0.000065136 5 121 -92%
1917 113 0.00005631 113 -100%
1918 106 0.000048823 106 -100%
1919 123 0.000058287 123 -100%
1920 143 0.0000632 143 -100%
1921 147 0.000062968 147 -100%
1922 159 0.000069458 159 -100%
1923 138 0.000059935 138 -100%
1924 145 0.000060883 5 140 -93%
1925 177 0.000075858 177 -100%
1926 150 0.000065334 5 145 -93%
1927 161 0.000069416 161 -100%
1928 128 0.000056614 128 -100%
1929 136 0.000062039 5 131 -93%
1930 143 0.000064319 143 -100%
1931 145 0.000068904 145 -100%
1932 159 0.000075309 159 -100%
1933 143 0.00007152 143 -100%
1934 143 0.000068855 143 -100%
1935 162 0.000077516 5 157 -94%
1936 150 0.000072199 150 -100%
1937 140 0.000065707 140 -100%
1938 118 0.000053332 118 -100%
1939 122 0.000055368 122 -100%
1940 128 0.000055587 128 -100%
1941 139 0.000057051 139 -100%
1942 126 0.000046123 126 -100%
1943 137 0.000048538 137 -100%
1944 115 0.00004275 115 -100%
1945 104 0.000039202 104 -100%
1946 131 0.000040998 131 -100%
1947 128 0.000035533 128 -100%
1948 125 0.000036205 125 -100%
1949 118 0.000033862 118 -100%
1950 99 0.000028259 99 -100%
1951 122 0.000033119 122 -100%
1952 119 0.000031332 119 -100%
1953 97 0.000025171 97 -100%
1954 92 0.000023111 92 -100%
1955 102 0.000025404 102 -100%
1956 94 0.000022799 94 -100%
1957 98 0.000023321 98 -100%
1958 97 0.000023465 97 -100%
1959 95 0.000022848 95 -100%
1960 91 0.000021908 91 -100%
1961 75 0.000018106 75 -100%
1962 85 0.000021064 85 -100%
1963 83 0.000020969 83 -100%
1964 103 0.000026494 103 -100%
1965 55 0.000015171 55 -100%
1966 64 0.000018414 64 -100%
1967 88 0.000025921 88 -100%
1968 80 0.00002368 80 -100%
1969 108 0.000031076 108 -100%
1970 90 0.000024955 90 -100%
1971 94 0.000027386 94 -100%
1972 73 0.000023226 73 -100%
1973 70 0.000023203 70 -100%
1974 62 0.000020395 62 -100%
1975 48 0.000015897 48 -100%
1976 56 0.000018456 56 -100%
1977 76 0.000023926 76 -100%
1978 52 0.000016384 52 -100%
1979 71 0.000021341 71 -100%
1980 74 0.000021483 74 -100%
1981 88 0.000025438 88 -100%
1982 94 0.000026796 94 -100%
1983 108 0.000031184 108 -100%
1984 107 0.00003067 107 -100%
1985 129 0.000036143 129 -100%
1986 159 0.0000447 159 -100%
1987 204 0.000056578 5 199 -95%
1988 221 0.00005981 6 215 -95%
1989 407 0.000105867 5 402 -98%
1990 1577 0.00039899 5 1572 -99%
1991 2369 0.000608174 12 2357 -99%
1992 2917 0.000759384 17 2900 -99%
1993 3409 0.000904177 16 3393 -99%
1994 4267 0.001147767 22 4245 -99%
1995 4219 0.001152054 28 4191 -99%
1996 3999 0.001096459 19 3980 -99%
1997 4262 0.001175481 24 4238 -99%
1998 4588 0.001247347 25 4563 -99%
1999 4561 0.001234749 20 4541 -99%
2000 4470 0.00118257 25 4445 -99%
2001 3909 0.001044241 14 3895 -99%
2002 3296 0.000881686 13 3283 -99%
2003 2865 0.000753488 8 2857 -99%
2004 2486 0.000650628 32 2454 -97%
2005 2256 0.00058676 2256 -100%
2006 1951 0.000493151 12 1939 -99%
2007 1849 0.000462518 13 1836 -99%
2008 1743 0.000443436 7 1736 -99%
2009 1487 0.000389249 11 1476 -99%
2010 1337 0.000361768 5 1332 -99%
2011 1267 0.000346384 1267 -100%
2012 1239 0.000338768 7 1232 -99%
2013 1112 0.00030502 6 1106 -99%
2014 1125 0.000303531 7 1118 -99%
2015 1050 0.000283714 1050 -100%
2016 1057 0.000288113 7 1050 -99%
2017 892 0.000249427 892 -100%
2018 804 0.000228676 5 799 -99%
2019 691 0.000199082 5 686 -99%
2020 645 0.00019308 8 637 -98%
2021 571 0.000168539 6 565 -98%
2022 573 0.00016937 573 -100%
2023 581 0.000175465 581 -100%
2024 735 0.00022082 6 729 -98%

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