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How popular is “Daniel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Daniel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Daniel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Daniel” 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 643 0.00319132 643 -100%
1881 527 0.002734991 527 -100%
1882 594 0.002681316 594 -100%
1883 615 0.002834807 615 -100%
1884 573 0.00235356 573 -100%
1885 535 0.002221263 535 -100%
1886 555 0.002173777 555 -100%
1887 556 0.002247445 556 -100%
1888 566 0.00188998 566 -100%
1889 515 0.00178234 515 -100%
1890 505 0.001675509 505 -100%
1891 505 0.001761589 505 -100%
1892 533 0.001594023 533 -100%
1893 522 0.001605053 522 -100%
1894 515 0.001520565 515 -100%
1895 516 0.001470002 516 -100%
1896 561 0.001569301 561 -100%
1897 520 0.001498745 520 -100%
1898 523 0.001371066 523 -100%
1899 485 0.001429692 485 -100%
1900 605 0.001343674 7 598 -98%
1901 416 0.001202966 416 -100%
1902 501 0.001295467 501 -100%
1903 432 0.001133263 432 -100%
1904 472 0.001169808 472 -100%
1905 489 0.001153514 5 484 -98%
1906 506 0.001180999 506 -100%
1907 528 0.001134532 528 -100%
1908 530 0.001084623 530 -100%
1909 569 0.001113015 569 -100%
1910 692 0.00117147 692 -100%
1911 796 0.001235491 796 -100%
1912 1530 0.001548486 6 1524 -99%
1913 1885 0.001657711 7 1878 -99%
1914 2339 0.001651435 14 2325 -99%
1915 3011 0.001643177 9 3002 -99%
1916 3160 0.001633567 11 3149 -99%
1917 3372 0.001680329 12 3360 -99%
1918 3745 0.001724923 19 3726 -99%
1919 3536 0.001675635 10 3526 -99%
1920 3915 0.001730277 18 3897 -99%
1921 4103 0.001757546 16 4087 -99%
1922 4306 0.001881043 21 4285 -99%
1923 4277 0.001857562 13 4264 -99%
1924 4432 0.001860926 29 4403 -99%
1925 4573 0.001959883 25 4548 -99%
1926 4547 0.001980483 31 4516 -99%
1927 4650 0.002004865 35 4615 -98%
1928 4460 0.001972632 34 4426 -98%
1929 4401 0.002007608 35 4366 -98%
1930 4488 0.002018632 23 4465 -99%
1931 4386 0.002084216 26 4360 -99%
1932 4468 0.002116241 19 4449 -99%
1933 4326 0.002163598 16 4310 -99%
1934 4524 0.002178335 22 4502 -99%
1935 4608 0.00220489 17 4591 -99%
1936 4835 0.002327229 18 4817 -99%
1937 5139 0.002411917 16 5123 -99%
1938 5611 0.00253596 27 5584 -99%
1939 5820 0.002641322 23 5797 -99%
1940 6248 0.002713354 23 6225 -99%
1941 7080 0.002905897 31 7049 -99%
1942 8535 0.003124293 28 8507 -99%
1943 9202 0.003260162 34 9168 -99%
1944 9340 0.003472017 26 9314 -99%
1945 9740 0.00367144 32 9708 -99%
1946 12900 0.004037171 33 12867 -99%
1947 15225 0.004226441 36 15189 -100%
1948 16557 0.00479563 48 16509 -99%
1949 18286 0.005247396 46 18240 -99%
1950 19233 0.005489876 44 19189 -100%
1951 21154 0.005742535 33 21121 -100%
1952 23451 0.006174557 31 23420 -100%
1953 23543 0.006109282 44 23499 -100%
1954 25317 0.006359924 42 25275 -100%
1955 26506 0.006601612 48 26458 -100%
1956 26709 0.006477992 56 26653 -100%
1957 27396 0.00651953 57 27339 -100%
1958 25681 0.006212288 66 25615 -99%
1959 25231 0.006068073 75 25156 -99%
1960 26016 0.006263158 78 25938 -99%
1961 25963 0.006267773 65 25898 -99%
1962 25642 0.006354309 100 25542 -99%
1963 24899 0.006290486 83 24816 -99%
1964 24419 0.006281245 76 24343 -99%
1965 24934 0.006877493 100 24834 -99%
1966 23345 0.006716719 75 23270 -99%
1967 22284 0.006563969 91 22193 -99%
1968 22118 0.006546861 103 22015 -99%
1969 23263 0.006693766 98 23165 -99%
1970 23622 0.006549815 101 23521 -99%
1971 21903 0.006381333 116 21787 -99%
1972 22223 0.007070647 132 22091 -99%
1973 23815 0.007893899 142 23673 -99%
1974 23987 0.007890463 153 23834 -99%
1975 23981 0.007942323 165 23816 -99%
1976 24876 0.008198267 172 24704 -99%
1977 26267 0.00826918 193 26074 -99%
1978 26619 0.008386922 177 26442 -99%
1979 28723 0.008633303 202 28521 -99%
1980 30114 0.008742618 219 29895 -99%
1981 31202 0.009019548 213 30989 -99%
1982 32909 0.009381231 255 32654 -98%
1983 35006 0.010107587 258 34748 -99%
1984 36802 0.010548749 269 36533 -99%
1985 38858 0.010887308 294 38564 -98%
1986 36862 0.010363 288 36574 -98%
1987 36140 0.010023259 265 35875 -99%
1988 34998 0.009471608 280 34718 -98%
1989 35197 0.009155283 188 35009 -99%
1990 33979 0.008596885 148 33831 -99%
1991 31098 0.007983539 166 30932 -99%
1992 29304 0.007628721 147 29157 -99%
1993 28824 0.007645058 130 28694 -99%
1994 28193 0.007583548 131 28062 -99%
1995 26831 0.007326561 104 26727 -99%
1996 25201 0.006909694 76 25125 -99%
1997 24030 0.006627596 80 23950 -99%
1998 23236 0.006317209 74 23162 -99%
1999 22769 0.006164001 64 22705 -99%
2000 22400 0.005926076 63 22337 -99%
2001 21074 0.005629656 61 21013 -99%
2002 21388 0.005721331 38 21350 -100%
2003 21122 0.005555031 53 21069 -99%
2004 21088 0.005519085 76 21012 -99%
2005 20284 0.005275636 50 20234 -100%
2006 20126 0.005087219 47 20079 -100%
2007 20294 0.005076441 30 20264 -100%
2008 19080 0.00485414 50 19030 -99%
2009 17603 0.004607904 40 17563 -100%
2010 15895 0.004300899 30 15865 -100%
2011 15329 0.00419078 25 15304 -100%
2012 14320 0.003915385 19 14301 -100%
2013 14352 0.003936728 29 14323 -100%
2014 13981 0.003772148 25 13956 -100%
2015 13560 0.003663962 20 13540 -100%
2016 13017 0.003548125 25 12992 -100%
2017 11767 0.003290369 14 11753 -100%
2018 11309 0.003216533 19 11290 -100%
2019 10602 0.00305451 17 10585 -100%
2020 9540 0.002855794 19 9521 -100%
2021 9164 0.002704881 12 9152 -100%
2022 9120 0.002695725 11 9109 -100%
2023 8409 0.002539566 18 8391 -100%
2024 8400 0.002523659 9 8391 -100%

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