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How popular is “Dora” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dora” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dora” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dora” 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 530 0.002630482 524 6 98%
1881 585 0.003035996 585 100%
1882 606 0.002735484 594 12 96%
1883 649 0.002991528 640 9 97%
1884 726 0.002981997 720 6 98%
1885 776 0.003221869 776 100%
1886 827 0.003239123 827 100%
1887 847 0.003423716 842 5 99%
1888 904 0.003018626 898 6 99%
1889 891 0.003083621 882 9 98%
1890 890 0.002952877 883 7 98%
1891 875 0.003052258 870 5 99%
1892 960 0.002871037 960 100%
1893 877 0.002696611 877 100%
1894 827 0.002441761 827 100%
1895 884 0.002518375 884 100%
1896 879 0.002458851 874 5 99%
1897 867 0.002498869 862 5 99%
1898 938 0.002459006 929 9 98%
1899 734 0.002163698 718 16 96%
1900 963 0.002138774 958 5 99%
1901 768 0.00222086 768 100%
1902 780 0.002016895 780 100%
1903 784 0.002056663 778 6 98%
1904 794 0.001967855 788 6 98%
1905 757 0.001785706 757 100%
1906 768 0.001792504 761 7 98%
1907 792 0.001701799 786 6 98%
1908 811 0.001659678 806 5 99%
1909 829 0.001621598 829 100%
1910 838 0.001418629 833 5 99%
1911 888 0.001378287 888 100%
1912 1061 0.001073819 1061 100%
1913 1192 0.001048272 1183 9 98%
1914 1350 0.000953158 1343 7 99%
1915 1672 0.000912452 1666 6 99%
1916 1736 0.000897428 1725 11 99%
1917 1755 0.000874548 1740 15 98%
1918 1745 0.000803736 1738 7 99%
1919 1845 0.000874306 1835 10 99%
1920 1872 0.000827351 1865 7 99%
1921 2031 0.000869992 2026 5 100%
1922 1818 0.000794179 1807 11 99%
1923 1915 0.000831712 1904 11 99%
1924 2006 0.000842287 2000 6 99%
1925 1952 0.000836583 1945 7 99%
1926 1791 0.000780085 1774 17 98%
1927 1803 0.00077737 1789 14 98%
1928 1655 0.000731997 1640 15 98%
1929 1597 0.000728505 1584 13 98%
1930 1511 0.000679624 1498 13 98%
1931 1372 0.000651971 1364 8 99%
1932 1450 0.000686784 1434 16 98%
1933 1253 0.000626673 1242 11 98%
1934 1263 0.000608142 1252 11 98%
1935 1177 0.000563185 1169 8 99%
1936 1172 0.000564118 1163 9 98%
1937 1093 0.000512984 1086 7 99%
1938 1142 0.000516141 1134 8 99%
1939 1050 0.000476527 1045 5 99%
1940 1048 0.000455121 1039 9 98%
1941 960 0.00039402 951 9 98%
1942 978 0.000358003 969 9 98%
1943 1022 0.000362083 1022 100%
1944 923 0.000343113 923 100%
1945 882 0.000332465 882 100%
1946 948 0.000296685 943 5 99%
1947 1047 0.000290646 1041 6 99%
1948 1029 0.000298043 1023 6 99%
1949 929 0.000266588 924 5 99%
1950 896 0.000255755 896 100%
1951 1034 0.000280693 1028 6 99%
1952 932 0.000245392 926 6 99%
1953 924 0.000239773 918 6 99%
1954 905 0.000227346 905 100%
1955 910 0.000226646 910 100%
1956 991 0.000240357 991 100%
1957 962 0.000228931 954 8 98%
1958 868 0.000209971 862 6 99%
1959 901 0.000216691 895 6 99%
1960 935 0.000225094 925 10 98%
1961 873 0.000210752 868 5 99%
1962 841 0.000208407 841 100%
1963 853 0.000215502 853 100%
1964 882 0.000226875 882 100%
1965 724 0.000199699 724 100%
1966 663 0.000190755 663 100%
1967 603 0.00017762 596 7 98%
1968 553 0.000163686 547 6 98%
1969 524 0.000150777 519 5 98%
1970 537 0.000148897 537 100%
1971 478 0.000139263 478 100%
1972 456 0.000145085 456 100%
1973 385 0.000127615 385 100%
1974 392 0.000128947 392 100%
1975 413 0.000136782 407 6 97%
1976 405 0.000133474 400 5 98%
1977 296 0.000093184 296 100%
1978 303 0.000095467 296 7 95%
1979 294 0.000088368 294 100%
1980 301 0.000087386 301 100%
1981 284 0.000082096 284 100%
1982 273 0.000077823 273 100%
1983 238 0.00006872 238 100%
1984 239 0.000068506 234 5 96%
1985 232 0.000065002 232 100%
1986 196 0.000055101 196 100%
1987 210 0.000058243 210 100%
1988 215 0.000058186 215 100%
1989 195 0.000050723 195 100%
1990 192 0.000048577 192 100%
1991 194 0.000049804 194 100%
1992 197 0.000051285 197 100%
1993 167 0.000044294 167 100%
1994 161 0.000043307 161 100%
1995 167 0.000045602 167 100%
1996 173 0.000047434 173 100%
1997 170 0.000046887 170 100%
1998 147 0.000039965 147 100%
1999 166 0.000044939 166 100%
2000 127 0.000033599 127 100%
2001 166 0.000044345 166 100%
2002 164 0.00004387 164 100%
2003 169 0.000044447 169 100%
2004 165 0.000043183 165 100%
2005 155 0.000040314 155 100%
2006 141 0.00003564 141 100%
2007 100 0.000025014 100 100%
2008 92 0.000023406 92 100%
2009 102 0.0000267 102 100%
2010 83 0.000022458 83 100%
2011 87 0.000023785 87 100%
2012 93 0.000025428 93 100%
2013 78 0.000021395 78 100%
2014 88 0.000023743 88 100%
2015 101 0.000027291 101 100%
2016 111 0.000030256 111 100%
2017 100 0.000027963 100 100%
2018 75 0.000021332 75 100%
2019 102 0.000029387 102 100%
2020 73 0.000021853 73 100%
2021 82 0.000024203 82 100%
2022 71 0.000020986 71 100%
2023 68 0.000020536 68 100%
2024 67 0.000020129 67 100%

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