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How popular is “Dodd” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dodd” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dodd” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dodd” 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
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 26 0.000006443 26 -100%
1963 26 0.000006569 26 -100%
1964 35 0.000009003 35 -100%
1965 22 0.000006068 22 -100%
1966 28 0.000008056 28 -100%
1967 22 0.00000648 22 -100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 -100%
1969 18 0.000005179 18 -100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 -100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%

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