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How popular is “Dossie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dossie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dossie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dossie” 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
1881 6 0.000031138 6 100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1896 11 0.000030771 5 6 -9%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 11 0.000027262 11 100%
1905 12 0.000028307 12 100%
1906 11 0.000025674 5 6 -9%
1908 11 0.000022511 6 5 9%
1909 11 0.000021517 5 6 -9%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 100%
1911 14 0.00002173 8 6 14%
1912 20 0.000020242 12 8 20%
1913 14 0.000012312 7 7 0%
1914 24 0.000016945 14 10 17%
1915 27 0.000014735 21 6 56%
1916 28 0.000014475 16 12 14%
1917 32 0.000015946 19 13 19%
1918 31 0.000014278 17 14 10%
1919 31 0.00001469 19 12 23%
1920 31 0.000013701 17 14 10%
1921 26 0.000011137 13 13 0%
1922 32 0.000013979 20 12 25%
1923 21 0.000009121 13 8 24%
1924 23 0.000009657 10 13 -13%
1925 31 0.000013286 19 12 23%
1926 24 0.000010453 14 10 17%
1927 28 0.000012072 10 18 -29%
1928 26 0.0000115 14 12 8%
1929 25 0.000011404 14 11 12%
1930 28 0.000012594 13 15 -7%
1931 26 0.000012355 15 11 15%
1932 23 0.000010894 10 13 -13%
1933 28 0.000014004 11 17 -21%
1934 18 0.000008667 12 6 33%
1935 15 0.000007177 9 6 20%
1936 16 0.000007701 7 9 -13%
1937 15 0.00000704 7 8 -7%
1938 12 0.000005424 6 6 0%
1939 11 0.000004992 6 5 9%
1940 20 0.000008686 10 10 0%
1941 20 0.000008209 11 9 10%
1942 13 0.000004759 6 7 -8%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1946 16 0.000005007 5 11 -38%
1947 13 0.000003609 8 5 23%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1953 13 0.000003373 5 8 -23%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 5 5 0%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%

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