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How popular is “Drake” in the USA?

Number of people named “Drake” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Drake” by birth year

This chart shows how “Drake” 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
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 -100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 -100%
1943 15 0.000005314 15 -100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 -100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 -100%
1946 28 0.000008763 28 -100%
1947 31 0.000008606 31 -100%
1948 41 0.000011875 41 -100%
1949 32 0.000009183 32 -100%
1950 38 0.000010847 38 -100%
1951 35 0.000009501 35 -100%
1952 41 0.000010795 41 -100%
1953 30 0.000007785 30 -100%
1954 35 0.000008792 35 -100%
1955 38 0.000009464 38 -100%
1956 43 0.000010429 43 -100%
1957 41 0.000009757 41 -100%
1958 50 0.000012095 50 -100%
1959 48 0.000011544 48 -100%
1960 54 0.000013 54 -100%
1961 77 0.000018589 77 -100%
1962 65 0.000016108 65 -100%
1963 49 0.000012379 49 -100%
1964 61 0.000015691 61 -100%
1965 70 0.000019308 70 -100%
1966 54 0.000015537 54 -100%
1967 49 0.000014433 49 -100%
1968 54 0.000015984 54 -100%
1969 54 0.000015538 54 -100%
1970 60 0.000016637 60 -100%
1971 41 0.000011945 41 -100%
1972 43 0.000013681 43 -100%
1973 38 0.000012596 38 -100%
1974 43 0.000014145 43 -100%
1975 17 0.00000563 17 -100%
1976 27 0.000008898 27 -100%
1977 30 0.000009444 30 -100%
1978 25 0.000007877 25 -100%
1979 42 0.000012624 42 -100%
1980 47 0.000013645 47 -100%
1981 66 0.000019079 66 -100%
1982 54 0.000015394 54 -100%
1983 82 0.000023677 82 -100%
1984 66 0.000018918 66 -100%
1985 103 0.000028859 103 -100%
1986 122 0.000034298 122 -100%
1987 138 0.000038274 138 -100%
1988 228 0.000061704 228 -100%
1989 272 0.000070751 272 -100%
1990 341 0.000086275 341 -100%
1991 424 0.00010885 424 -100%
1992 526 0.000136934 526 -100%
1993 682 0.000180888 682 -100%
1994 732 0.000196898 7 725 -98%
1995 801 0.000218724 6 795 -99%
1996 873 0.000239362 6 867 -99%
1997 982 0.000270841 8 974 -98%
1998 1063 0.000288999 6 1057 -99%
1999 1055 0.000285609 6 1049 -99%
2000 1276 0.000337575 6 1270 -99%
2001 1251 0.000334189 6 1245 -99%
2002 1169 0.00031271 1169 -100%
2003 1137 0.000299028 7 1130 -99%
2004 1274 0.000333427 6 1268 -99%
2005 1344 0.000349559 6 1338 -99%
2006 1410 0.000356404 1410 -100%
2007 1524 0.000381221 1524 -100%
2008 1590 0.000404512 1590 -100%
2009 1587 0.000415426 1587 -100%
2010 1885 0.000510047 8 1877 -99%
2011 1607 0.000439336 1607 -100%
2012 1547 0.000422982 1547 -100%
2013 1217 0.000333821 1217 -100%
2014 943 0.000254426 943 -100%
2015 782 0.000211299 782 -100%
2016 696 0.000189713 696 -100%
2017 649 0.000181478 649 -100%
2018 686 0.000195114 686 -100%
2019 488 0.000140596 488 -100%
2020 532 0.000159254 5 527 -98%
2021 496 0.000146401 496 -100%
2022 442 0.000130648 442 -100%
2023 397 0.000119896 397 -100%
2024 414 0.00012438 414 -100%

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