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How popular is “Dory” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dory” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dory” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dory” 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
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1950 11 0.00000314 11 100%
1951 14 0.0000038 14 100%
1952 24 0.000006319 19 5 58%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 20 0.000005024 20 100%
1955 25 0.000006227 25 100%
1956 29 0.000007034 23 6 59%
1957 21 0.000004997 21 100%
1958 16 0.00000387 16 100%
1959 19 0.00000457 19 100%
1960 33 0.000007945 28 5 70%
1961 25 0.000006035 25 100%
1962 29 0.000007186 29 100%
1963 17 0.000004295 12 5 41%
1964 41 0.000010546 34 7 66%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 18 0.000005302 18 100%
1968 21 0.000006216 16 5 52%
1969 26 0.000007481 21 5 62%
1970 35 0.000009705 24 11 37%
1971 33 0.000009614 27 6 64%
1972 46 0.000014636 32 14 39%
1973 20 0.000006629 20 100%
1974 37 0.000012171 27 10 46%
1975 18 0.000005961 18 100%
1976 28 0.000009228 22 6 57%
1977 27 0.0000085 27 100%
1978 30 0.000009452 24 6 60%
1979 18 0.00000541 11 7 22%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 100%
1982 11 0.000003136 6 5 9%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 13 0.000003726 7 6 8%
1985 18 0.000005043 13 5 44%
1986 14 0.000003936 9 5 29%
1987 14 0.000003883 14 100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 100%
1991 13 0.000003337 13 100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 100%

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