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How popular is “Dane” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dane” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dane” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dane” 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
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 11 0.000007766 11 -100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 -100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 -100%
1918 17 0.00000783 17 -100%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 -100%
1920 16 0.000007071 16 -100%
1921 27 0.000011566 27 -100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 -100%
1923 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1924 21 0.000008818 21 -100%
1925 35 0.000015 35 -100%
1926 22 0.000009582 22 -100%
1927 24 0.000010348 24 -100%
1928 16 0.000007077 16 -100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 -100%
1930 20 0.000008996 20 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 24 0.000011367 24 -100%
1933 18 0.000009002 18 -100%
1934 26 0.000012519 26 -100%
1935 20 0.00000957 20 -100%
1936 22 0.000010589 22 -100%
1937 19 0.000008917 19 -100%
1938 15 0.000006779 15 -100%
1939 14 0.000006354 14 -100%
1940 29 0.000012594 29 -100%
1941 23 0.00000944 23 -100%
1942 16 0.000005857 16 -100%
1943 27 0.000009566 27 -100%
1944 29 0.00001078 29 -100%
1945 69 0.000026009 69 -100%
1946 145 0.000045379 6 139 -92%
1947 176 0.000048857 176 -100%
1948 144 0.000041709 144 -100%
1949 160 0.000045914 160 -100%
1950 157 0.000044814 6 151 -92%
1951 161 0.000043706 161 -100%
1952 189 0.000049763 189 -100%
1953 185 0.000048007 6 179 -94%
1954 280 0.000070339 280 -100%
1955 233 0.000058031 8 225 -93%
1956 291 0.000070579 291 -100%
1957 353 0.000084005 353 -100%
1958 293 0.000070877 6 287 -96%
1959 357 0.000085859 357 -100%
1960 295 0.000071019 5 290 -97%
1961 303 0.000073148 6 297 -96%
1962 288 0.000071369 7 281 -95%
1963 316 0.000079834 316 -100%
1964 350 0.00009003 8 342 -95%
1965 220 0.000060682 5 215 -95%
1966 184 0.00005294 5 179 -95%
1967 228 0.00006716 7 221 -94%
1968 255 0.000075479 255 -100%
1969 254 0.000073087 7 247 -94%
1970 241 0.000066824 6 235 -95%
1971 215 0.000062639 10 205 -91%
1972 206 0.000065543 206 -100%
1973 207 0.000068614 207 -100%
1974 174 0.000057237 174 -100%
1975 168 0.00005564 8 160 -90%
1976 168 0.000055367 11 157 -87%
1977 167 0.000052574 167 -100%
1978 268 0.00008444 9 259 -93%
1979 348 0.000104599 11 337 -94%
1980 326 0.000094643 5 321 -97%
1981 342 0.000098862 8 334 -95%
1982 411 0.000117162 13 398 -94%
1983 836 0.000241386 5 831 -99%
1984 648 0.00018574 10 638 -97%
1985 1016 0.000284665 13 1003 -97%
1986 1080 0.00030362 11 1069 -98%
1987 776 0.00021522 19 757 -95%
1988 775 0.00020974 15 760 -96%
1989 688 0.000178959 6 682 -98%
1990 744 0.000188236 5 739 -99%
1991 586 0.000150439 6 580 -98%
1992 566 0.000147347 14 552 -95%
1993 527 0.000139777 11 516 -96%
1994 530 0.000142563 9 521 -97%
1995 525 0.000143358 8 517 -97%
1996 525 0.000143946 8 517 -97%
1997 517 0.000142591 12 505 -95%
1998 455 0.000123702 455 -100%
1999 545 0.000147542 545 -100%
2000 589 0.000155824 6 583 -98%
2001 549 0.000146659 549 -100%
2002 545 0.000145789 11 534 -96%
2003 579 0.000152275 5 574 -98%
2004 537 0.000140542 537 -100%
2005 560 0.00014565 560 -100%
2006 769 0.000194379 7 762 -98%
2007 957 0.000239389 8 949 -98%
2008 924 0.000235075 6 918 -99%
2009 825 0.000215959 7 818 -98%
2010 689 0.000186431 5 684 -99%
2011 574 0.000156925 574 -100%
2012 573 0.00015667 573 -100%
2013 482 0.000132212 482 -100%
2014 423 0.000114128 423 -100%
2015 429 0.000115917 5 424 -98%
2016 361 0.0000984 6 355 -97%
2017 313 0.000087523 313 -100%
2018 315 0.000089593 315 -100%
2019 258 0.000074332 5 253 -96%
2020 273 0.000081722 273 -100%
2021 284 0.000083827 284 -100%
2022 277 0.000081877 277 -100%
2023 257 0.000077615 257 -100%
2024 273 0.000082019 273 -100%

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