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How popular is “Darwin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Darwin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Darwin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Darwin” 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%
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1889 8 0.000027687 8 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 -100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 -100%
1909 11 0.000021517 11 -100%
1910 18 0.000030472 18 -100%
1911 19 0.00002949 19 -100%
1912 45 0.000045544 45 -100%
1913 74 0.000065077 74 -100%
1914 75 0.000052953 75 -100%
1915 139 0.000075856 139 -100%
1916 150 0.000077543 150 -100%
1917 133 0.000066276 133 -100%
1918 156 0.000071853 156 -100%
1919 155 0.000073451 155 -100%
1920 174 0.000076901 174 -100%
1921 214 0.000091668 214 -100%
1922 188 0.000082126 188 -100%
1923 215 0.000093378 215 -100%
1924 218 0.000091535 218 -100%
1925 225 0.00009643 225 -100%
1926 202 0.000087983 202 -100%
1927 242 0.000104339 242 -100%
1928 252 0.000111458 252 -100%
1929 278 0.000126816 278 -100%
1930 280 0.00012594 280 -100%
1931 259 0.000123076 259 -100%
1932 281 0.000133094 281 -100%
1933 307 0.000153542 7 300 -95%
1934 306 0.000147341 6 300 -96%
1935 330 0.000157902 330 -100%
1936 304 0.000146324 304 -100%
1937 299 0.000140331 299 -100%
1938 338 0.000152763 338 -100%
1939 332 0.000150673 332 -100%
1940 309 0.000134191 309 -100%
1941 283 0.000116154 283 -100%
1942 326 0.000119334 326 -100%
1943 332 0.000117624 332 -100%
1944 303 0.000112636 303 -100%
1945 235 0.000088582 235 -100%
1946 298 0.000093262 298 -100%
1947 350 0.00009716 350 -100%
1948 295 0.000085445 295 -100%
1949 302 0.000086663 302 -100%
1950 324 0.000092483 324 -100%
1951 323 0.000087683 323 -100%
1952 299 0.000078726 299 -100%
1953 313 0.000081222 313 -100%
1954 320 0.000080388 320 -100%
1955 343 0.000085428 343 -100%
1956 371 0.000089982 371 -100%
1957 382 0.000090906 382 -100%
1958 424 0.000102566 7 417 -97%
1959 397 0.000095479 397 -100%
1960 392 0.000094371 392 -100%
1961 374 0.000090288 374 -100%
1962 398 0.000098628 398 -100%
1963 347 0.000087666 347 -100%
1964 360 0.000092602 6 354 -97%
1965 382 0.000105366 382 -100%
1966 333 0.000095809 333 -100%
1967 304 0.000089546 5 299 -97%
1968 297 0.000087911 297 -100%
1969 260 0.000074813 260 -100%
1970 207 0.000057396 207 -100%
1971 191 0.000055647 191 -100%
1972 142 0.00004518 142 -100%
1973 144 0.000047731 144 -100%
1974 144 0.000047368 144 -100%
1975 125 0.000041399 125 -100%
1976 84 0.000027683 84 -100%
1977 118 0.000037148 118 -100%
1978 106 0.000033398 106 -100%
1979 102 0.000030658 102 -100%
1980 118 0.000034257 118 -100%
1981 120 0.000034688 120 -100%
1982 88 0.000025086 88 -100%
1983 96 0.000027719 96 -100%
1984 122 0.000034969 122 -100%
1985 107 0.000029979 107 -100%
1986 106 0.0000298 106 -100%
1987 115 0.000031895 115 -100%
1988 129 0.000034912 129 -100%
1989 148 0.000038497 148 -100%
1990 128 0.000032385 128 -100%
1991 143 0.000036711 143 -100%
1992 126 0.000032802 126 -100%
1993 136 0.000036072 136 -100%
1994 137 0.000036851 137 -100%
1995 125 0.000034133 5 120 -92%
1996 105 0.000028789 105 -100%
1997 136 0.000037509 136 -100%
1998 132 0.000035887 132 -100%
1999 129 0.000034923 129 -100%
2000 146 0.000038625 146 -100%
2001 180 0.000048085 180 -100%
2002 179 0.000047883 179 -100%
2003 197 0.00005181 197 -100%
2004 222 0.000058101 5 217 -95%
2005 212 0.000055139 212 -100%
2006 266 0.000067236 266 -100%
2007 261 0.000065288 261 -100%
2008 284 0.000072252 5 279 -96%
2009 319 0.000083504 5 314 -97%
2010 320 0.000086586 7 313 -96%
2011 296 0.000080923 5 291 -97%
2012 248 0.000067808 248 -100%
2013 259 0.000071043 259 -100%
2014 244 0.000065833 8 236 -93%
2015 256 0.000069172 256 -100%
2016 269 0.000073323 6 263 -96%
2017 272 0.000076058 6 266 -96%
2018 243 0.000069115 6 237 -95%
2019 223 0.000064248 223 -100%
2020 247 0.000073939 247 -100%
2021 196 0.000057852 196 -100%
2022 227 0.000067098 227 -100%
2023 228 0.000068857 228 -100%
2024 293 0.000088028 293 -100%

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