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How popular is “Dave” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dave” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dave” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dave” 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 131 0.000650176 131 -100%
1881 135 0.000700614 135 -100%
1882 144 0.000650016 5 139 -93%
1883 135 0.000622275 135 -100%
1884 159 0.000653082 159 -100%
1885 128 0.000531442 128 -100%
1886 139 0.000544423 139 -100%
1887 111 0.000448681 111 -100%
1888 146 0.000487521 146 -100%
1889 116 0.000401459 116 -100%
1890 152 0.000504312 152 -100%
1891 124 0.000432549 124 -100%
1892 138 0.000412712 138 -100%
1893 113 0.000347454 113 -100%
1894 129 0.000380879 129 -100%
1895 139 0.000395989 139 -100%
1896 118 0.000330085 118 -100%
1897 121 0.000348746 121 -100%
1898 127 0.000332936 127 -100%
1899 120 0.000353738 120 -100%
1900 166 0.000368678 166 -100%
1901 105 0.000303633 105 -100%
1902 112 0.000289605 112 -100%
1903 88 0.00023085 88 -100%
1904 102 0.000252798 102 -100%
1905 137 0.000323173 137 -100%
1906 98 0.000228731 98 -100%
1907 107 0.000229915 107 -100%
1908 116 0.000237389 116 -100%
1909 102 0.000199521 102 -100%
1910 178 0.000301332 178 -100%
1911 135 0.000209537 135 -100%
1912 222 0.000224682 222 -100%
1913 249 0.000218976 249 -100%
1914 267 0.000188514 267 -100%
1915 295 0.000160989 295 -100%
1916 329 0.000170077 329 -100%
1917 327 0.00016295 5 322 -97%
1918 367 0.000169038 9 358 -95%
1919 361 0.00017107 361 -100%
1920 379 0.000167503 6 373 -97%
1921 320 0.000137074 320 -100%
1922 325 0.000141974 325 -100%
1923 322 0.000139849 322 -100%
1924 343 0.00014402 343 -100%
1925 362 0.000155145 362 -100%
1926 353 0.000153752 353 -100%
1927 385 0.000165994 7 378 -96%
1928 324 0.000143303 324 -100%
1929 332 0.000151449 332 -100%
1930 339 0.000152477 339 -100%
1931 390 0.000185327 7 383 -96%
1932 387 0.0001833 387 -100%
1933 375 0.000187552 375 -100%
1934 458 0.00022053 458 -100%
1935 469 0.000224413 469 -100%
1936 525 0.000252698 525 -100%
1937 593 0.000278316 593 -100%
1938 626 0.000282928 626 -100%
1939 663 0.000300893 663 -100%
1940 776 0.000336998 7 769 -98%
1941 871 0.000357491 7 864 -98%
1942 1054 0.000385824 1054 -100%
1943 1089 0.00038582 1089 -100%
1944 1133 0.000421177 8 1125 -99%
1945 1077 0.000405969 1077 -100%
1946 1398 0.000437517 1398 -100%
1947 1698 0.000471363 5 1693 -99%
1948 1508 0.000436783 1508 -100%
1949 1163 0.000333737 1163 -100%
1950 874 0.000249475 874 -100%
1951 743 0.000201697 743 -100%
1952 768 0.000202211 768 -100%
1953 768 0.000199292 768 -100%
1954 834 0.00020951 834 -100%
1955 1051 0.000261763 1051 -100%
1956 1355 0.000328641 1355 -100%
1957 2188 0.000520687 7 2181 -99%
1958 2965 0.00071724 7 2958 -100%
1959 3308 0.000795576 3308 -100%
1960 3056 0.000735709 6 3050 -100%
1961 2810 0.000678367 8 2802 -99%
1962 2362 0.000585324 2362 -100%
1963 2001 0.000505533 5 1996 -100%
1964 1540 0.000396131 5 1535 -99%
1965 1159 0.000319685 1159 -100%
1966 868 0.000249737 868 -100%
1967 778 0.000229167 5 773 -99%
1968 667 0.00019743 667 -100%
1969 567 0.00016315 5 562 -98%
1970 521 0.000144461 521 -100%
1971 414 0.000120617 414 -100%
1972 313 0.000099587 313 -100%
1973 240 0.000079552 240 -100%
1974 227 0.000074671 227 -100%
1975 186 0.000061602 186 -100%
1976 181 0.000059651 181 -100%
1977 189 0.0000595 189 -100%
1978 165 0.000051987 165 -100%
1979 155 0.000046589 155 -100%
1980 160 0.000046451 160 -100%
1981 170 0.000049142 170 -100%
1982 172 0.000049031 172 -100%
1983 148 0.000042733 148 -100%
1984 152 0.000043569 152 -100%
1985 150 0.000042027 150 -100%
1986 142 0.00003992 142 -100%
1987 134 0.000037164 134 -100%
1988 162 0.000043843 162 -100%
1989 128 0.000033295 128 -100%
1990 124 0.000031373 124 -100%
1991 133 0.000034144 133 -100%
1992 123 0.000032021 123 -100%
1993 123 0.000032624 123 -100%
1994 115 0.000030933 115 -100%
1995 113 0.000030856 113 -100%
1996 90 0.000024676 90 -100%
1997 91 0.000025098 91 -100%
1998 91 0.00002474 91 -100%
1999 103 0.000027884 103 -100%
2000 96 0.000025397 96 -100%
2001 98 0.000026179 98 -100%
2002 109 0.000029158 109 -100%
2003 115 0.000030245 115 -100%
2004 100 0.000026172 100 -100%
2005 100 0.000026009 100 -100%
2006 90 0.000022749 90 -100%
2007 101 0.000025265 101 -100%
2008 94 0.000023915 94 -100%
2009 84 0.000021989 84 -100%
2010 71 0.000019211 71 -100%
2011 70 0.000019137 70 -100%
2012 78 0.000021327 78 -100%
2013 78 0.000021395 78 -100%
2014 77 0.000020775 77 -100%
2015 64 0.000017293 64 -100%
2016 55 0.000014992 55 -100%
2017 81 0.00002265 81 -100%
2018 76 0.000021616 76 -100%
2019 66 0.000019015 66 -100%
2020 72 0.000021553 72 -100%
2021 64 0.00001889 64 -100%
2022 60 0.000017735 60 -100%
2023 65 0.00001963 65 -100%
2024 76 0.000022833 76 -100%

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