Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Dan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dan” 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 140 0.000694844 140 -100%
1881 148 0.000768081 148 -100%
1882 150 0.0006771 150 -100%
1883 120 0.000553133 120 -100%
1884 151 0.000620223 151 -100%
1885 129 0.000535594 129 -100%
1886 154 0.000603174 154 -100%
1887 140 0.000565903 140 -100%
1888 154 0.000514235 154 -100%
1889 116 0.000401459 116 -100%
1890 160 0.000530854 160 -100%
1891 113 0.000394177 113 -100%
1892 156 0.000466543 156 -100%
1893 143 0.000439698 143 -100%
1894 114 0.000336591 114 -100%
1895 96 0.000273489 96 -100%
1896 133 0.000372045 133 -100%
1897 115 0.000331453 115 -100%
1898 125 0.000327693 125 -100%
1899 119 0.00035079 119 -100%
1900 192 0.000426422 192 -100%
1901 117 0.000338334 117 -100%
1902 124 0.000320635 124 -100%
1903 155 0.000406611 155 -100%
1904 156 0.000386631 156 -100%
1905 152 0.000358557 152 -100%
1906 133 0.000310421 5 128 -92%
1907 160 0.000343798 160 -100%
1908 152 0.000311062 152 -100%
1909 163 0.000318843 163 -100%
1910 188 0.000318261 188 -100%
1911 205 0.000318186 205 -100%
1912 298 0.000301601 298 -100%
1913 379 0.000333301 5 374 -97%
1914 447 0.000315601 447 -100%
1915 578 0.000315429 578 -100%
1916 602 0.000311205 8 594 -97%
1917 600 0.000298991 5 595 -98%
1918 718 0.000330706 8 710 -98%
1919 760 0.000360148 12 748 -97%
1920 771 0.000340752 7 764 -98%
1921 728 0.000311843 11 717 -97%
1922 814 0.00035559 8 806 -98%
1923 737 0.00032009 7 730 -98%
1924 811 0.000340526 11 800 -97%
1925 782 0.000335147 10 772 -97%
1926 893 0.000388953 13 880 -97%
1927 938 0.000404422 15 923 -97%
1928 926 0.000409565 18 908 -96%
1929 809 0.000369042 9 800 -98%
1930 908 0.000408404 9 899 -98%
1931 892 0.000423876 10 882 -98%
1932 930 0.000440489 8 922 -98%
1933 945 0.000472631 7 938 -99%
1934 947 0.000455986 8 939 -98%
1935 1024 0.000489976 9 1015 -98%
1936 975 0.000469296 10 965 -98%
1937 1041 0.000488579 8 1033 -98%
1938 1047 0.000473205 7 1040 -99%
1939 996 0.00045202 996 -100%
1940 1103 0.000479006 6 1097 -99%
1941 1154 0.000473645 1154 -100%
1942 1344 0.00049198 1344 -100%
1943 1538 0.000544896 1538 -100%
1944 1493 0.000555002 5 1488 -99%
1945 1732 0.000652868 6 1726 -99%
1946 2205 0.000690075 11 2194 -99%
1947 2711 0.00075257 9 2702 -99%
1948 2502 0.000724688 7 2495 -99%
1949 2291 0.000657431 12 2279 -99%
1950 2095 0.000597998 10 2085 -99%
1951 2000 0.000542927 8 1992 -99%
1952 2311 0.000608477 2311 -100%
1953 2172 0.000563622 6 2166 -99%
1954 2160 0.000542617 7 2153 -99%
1955 2314 0.000576327 10 2304 -99%
1956 2442 0.000592282 5 2437 -100%
1957 3202 0.000761992 8 3194 -100%
1958 3703 0.000895763 10 3693 -99%
1959 3683 0.000885764 8 3675 -100%
1960 3697 0.000890025 3697 -100%
1961 3422 0.000826111 5 3417 -100%
1962 3121 0.000773411 6 3115 -100%
1963 2823 0.000713203 2823 -100%
1964 2375 0.000610916 6 2369 -99%
1965 1997 0.000550828 6 1991 -99%
1966 1538 0.000442507 1538 -100%
1967 1334 0.000392943 5 1329 -99%
1968 1280 0.000378876 9 1271 -99%
1969 1167 0.000335796 8 1159 -99%
1970 1029 0.000285317 8 1021 -98%
1971 909 0.000264833 7 902 -98%
1972 683 0.000217309 6 677 -98%
1973 578 0.000191588 5 573 -98%
1974 485 0.00015954 6 479 -98%
1975 453 0.00015003 5 448 -98%
1976 400 0.000131826 400 -100%
1977 378 0.000118999 378 -100%
1978 354 0.000111536 11 343 -94%
1979 335 0.000100691 6 329 -96%
1980 342 0.000099289 7 335 -96%
1981 371 0.000107245 9 362 -95%
1982 323 0.000092076 8 315 -95%
1983 288 0.000083157 8 280 -94%
1984 265 0.000075958 265 -100%
1985 271 0.000075929 7 264 -95%
1986 276 0.000077592 8 268 -94%
1987 231 0.000064067 231 -100%
1988 259 0.000070094 10 249 -92%
1989 246 0.000063988 6 240 -95%
1990 234 0.000059203 234 -100%
1991 230 0.000059046 230 -100%
1992 217 0.000056492 8 209 -93%
1993 208 0.000055168 208 -100%
1994 178 0.00004788 178 -100%
1995 171 0.000046694 171 -100%
1996 176 0.000048256 176 -100%
1997 165 0.000045508 165 -100%
1998 150 0.000040781 150 -100%
1999 139 0.00003763 139 -100%
2000 163 0.000043123 163 -100%
2001 150 0.000040071 7 143 -91%
2002 153 0.000040928 153 -100%
2003 151 0.000039713 5 146 -93%
2004 146 0.000038211 7 139 -90%
2005 156 0.000040574 156 -100%
2006 136 0.000034377 136 -100%
2007 149 0.000037272 149 -100%
2008 136 0.0000346 136 -100%
2009 116 0.000030365 116 -100%
2010 116 0.000031387 116 -100%
2011 108 0.000029526 108 -100%
2012 107 0.000029256 107 -100%
2013 87 0.000023864 87 -100%
2014 102 0.00002752 102 -100%
2015 91 0.000024589 91 -100%
2016 100 0.000027258 100 -100%
2017 96 0.000026844 96 -100%
2018 97 0.000027589 97 -100%
2019 102 0.000029387 102 -100%
2020 93 0.00002784 7 86 -85%
2021 78 0.000023023 78 -100%
2022 97 0.000028672 9 88 -81%
2023 105 0.000031711 5 100 -90%
2024 82 0.000024636 82 -100%

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