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How popular is “Donovan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Donovan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Donovan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Donovan” 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
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1901 7 0.000020242 7 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1903 9 0.00002361 9 -100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 -100%
1905 12 0.000028307 12 -100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 -100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 -100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 -100%
1912 26 0.000026314 26 -100%
1913 28 0.000024624 28 -100%
1914 35 0.000024712 35 -100%
1915 45 0.000024558 45 -100%
1916 49 0.000025331 49 -100%
1917 40 0.000019933 40 -100%
1918 47 0.000021648 47 -100%
1919 54 0.000025589 54 -100%
1920 61 0.00002696 61 -100%
1921 69 0.000029557 69 -100%
1922 52 0.000022716 52 -100%
1923 75 0.000032574 75 -100%
1924 65 0.000027292 65 -100%
1925 75 0.000032143 75 -100%
1926 66 0.000028747 66 -100%
1927 78 0.00003363 78 -100%
1928 93 0.000041133 93 -100%
1929 85 0.000038775 85 -100%
1930 93 0.00004183 93 -100%
1931 98 0.000046569 98 -100%
1932 107 0.00005068 107 -100%
1933 80 0.000040011 80 -100%
1934 109 0.000052484 109 -100%
1935 66 0.00003158 66 -100%
1936 79 0.000038025 79 -100%
1937 64 0.000030037 64 -100%
1938 91 0.000041129 91 -100%
1939 79 0.000035853 79 -100%
1940 84 0.000036479 84 -100%
1941 65 0.000026678 65 -100%
1942 65 0.000023794 65 -100%
1943 73 0.000025863 73 -100%
1944 63 0.000023419 63 -100%
1945 58 0.000021863 58 -100%
1946 83 0.000025976 83 -100%
1947 78 0.000021653 78 -100%
1948 78 0.000022592 78 -100%
1949 70 0.000020087 70 -100%
1950 90 0.00002569 90 -100%
1951 86 0.000023346 86 -100%
1952 73 0.000019221 73 -100%
1953 80 0.00002076 80 -100%
1954 76 0.000019092 76 -100%
1955 107 0.00002665 107 -100%
1956 88 0.000021343 88 -100%
1957 116 0.000027605 116 -100%
1958 74 0.000017901 74 -100%
1959 86 0.000020683 86 -100%
1960 75 0.000018056 75 -100%
1961 119 0.000028728 119 -100%
1962 103 0.000025524 103 -100%
1963 102 0.000025769 102 -100%
1964 119 0.00003061 119 -100%
1965 132 0.000036409 132 -100%
1966 175 0.00005035 175 -100%
1967 227 0.000066865 227 -100%
1968 283 0.000083767 283 -100%
1969 486 0.000139843 8 478 -97%
1970 506 0.000140302 5 501 -98%
1971 479 0.000139554 479 -100%
1972 409 0.000130131 6 403 -97%
1973 378 0.000125295 378 -100%
1974 369 0.000121382 369 -100%
1975 338 0.000111943 338 -100%
1976 348 0.000114689 348 -100%
1977 324 0.000101999 324 -100%
1978 300 0.000094522 7 293 -95%
1979 317 0.000095281 317 -100%
1980 344 0.000099869 344 -100%
1981 295 0.000085276 6 289 -96%
1982 279 0.000079533 279 -100%
1983 278 0.000080269 278 -100%
1984 340 0.000097456 8 332 -95%
1985 466 0.000130565 6 460 -97%
1986 503 0.000141408 9 494 -96%
1987 639 0.000177224 9 630 -97%
1988 680 0.00018403 8 672 -98%
1989 773 0.000201069 773 -100%
1990 857 0.000216826 6 851 -99%
1991 1064 0.000273152 5 1059 -99%
1992 1183 0.000307971 7 1176 -99%
1993 1150 0.000305017 6 1144 -99%
1994 1110 0.000298575 1110 -100%
1995 1086 0.000296547 9 1077 -98%
1996 1201 0.000329294 1201 -100%
1997 1458 0.000402124 9 1449 -99%
1998 1553 0.000422217 11 1542 -99%
1999 1642 0.000444521 10 1632 -99%
2000 1730 0.000457684 12 1718 -99%
2001 1664 0.000444517 7 1657 -99%
2002 1971 0.000527246 7 1964 -99%
2003 2219 0.000583591 8 2211 -99%
2004 2068 0.00054123 13 2055 -99%
2005 2186 0.000568553 2186 -100%
2006 1967 0.000497196 1967 -100%
2007 2050 0.000512797 6 2044 -99%
2008 1792 0.000455903 7 1785 -99%
2009 1741 0.000455738 1741 -100%
2010 1649 0.00044619 5 1644 -99%
2011 1363 0.000372629 1363 -100%
2012 1272 0.000347791 1272 -100%
2013 1237 0.000339307 1237 -100%
2014 1276 0.000344272 5 1271 -99%
2015 1303 0.000352075 1303 -100%
2016 1165 0.000317551 5 1160 -99%
2017 1066 0.000298082 5 1061 -99%
2018 1035 0.000294377 5 1030 -99%
2019 947 0.000272837 947 -100%
2020 830 0.00024846 830 -100%
2021 727 0.000214584 727 -100%
2022 692 0.000204544 692 -100%
2023 650 0.000196304 650 -100%
2024 603 0.000181163 603 -100%

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