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How popular is “Drew” in the USA?

Number of people named “Drew” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Drew” by birth year

This chart shows how “Drew” 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 6 0.000029779 6 -100%
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1882 11 0.000049654 11 -100%
1883 11 0.000050704 11 -100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 -100%
1886 12 0.000047001 12 -100%
1888 10 0.000033392 10 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1910 14 0.0000237 14 -100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 -100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 21 0.000018468 21 -100%
1914 19 0.000013415 19 -100%
1915 26 0.000014189 26 -100%
1916 26 0.000013441 26 -100%
1917 26 0.000012956 26 -100%
1918 27 0.000012436 7 20 -48%
1919 26 0.000012321 26 -100%
1920 27 0.000011933 27 -100%
1921 29 0.000012422 6 23 -59%
1922 33 0.000014416 33 -100%
1923 27 0.000011726 5 22 -63%
1924 21 0.000008818 21 -100%
1925 21 0.000009 21 -100%
1926 25 0.000010889 25 -100%
1927 24 0.000010348 24 -100%
1928 23 0.000010173 23 -100%
1929 22 0.000010036 22 -100%
1930 39 0.000017542 39 -100%
1931 35 0.000016632 5 30 -71%
1932 31 0.000014683 31 -100%
1933 35 0.000017505 5 30 -71%
1934 19 0.000009149 19 -100%
1935 25 0.000011962 25 -100%
1936 29 0.000013959 29 -100%
1937 20 0.000009387 20 -100%
1938 36 0.000016271 36 -100%
1939 49 0.000022238 5 44 -80%
1940 49 0.00002128 49 -100%
1941 48 0.000019701 48 -100%
1942 61 0.000022329 6 55 -80%
1943 79 0.000027989 5 74 -87%
1944 80 0.000029739 8 72 -80%
1945 93 0.000035056 5 88 -89%
1946 246 0.000076988 12 234 -90%
1947 220 0.000061072 7 213 -94%
1948 185 0.000053584 185 -100%
1949 211 0.000060549 5 206 -95%
1950 212 0.000060513 10 202 -91%
1951 206 0.000055921 11 195 -89%
1952 222 0.000058452 8 214 -93%
1953 224 0.000058127 11 213 -90%
1954 271 0.000068078 11 260 -92%
1955 271 0.000067496 11 260 -92%
1956 501 0.000121512 15 486 -94%
1957 490 0.000116607 20 470 -92%
1958 447 0.00010813 7 440 -97%
1959 557 0.000133959 17 540 -94%
1960 565 0.00013602 12 553 -96%
1961 582 0.000140502 13 569 -96%
1962 444 0.000110027 6 438 -97%
1963 429 0.000108383 8 421 -96%
1964 425 0.000109322 7 418 -97%
1965 419 0.000115572 10 409 -95%
1966 430 0.000123718 430 -100%
1967 373 0.000109871 373 -100%
1968 400 0.000118399 400 -100%
1969 374 0.000107616 374 -100%
1970 408 0.000113129 5 403 -98%
1971 320 0.00009323 6 314 -96%
1972 322 0.00010245 322 -100%
1973 303 0.000100435 303 -100%
1974 383 0.000125987 6 377 -97%
1975 382 0.000126515 6 376 -97%
1976 425 0.000140065 7 418 -97%
1977 484 0.000152369 484 -100%
1978 553 0.000174235 6 547 -98%
1979 640 0.000192365 15 625 -95%
1980 727 0.000211061 7 720 -98%
1981 936 0.000270569 19 917 -96%
1982 1048 0.000298749 36 1012 -93%
1983 1450 0.000418671 74 1376 -90%
1984 1844 0.000528555 79 1765 -91%
1985 2397 0.000671596 121 2276 -90%
1986 2112 0.000593746 112 2000 -89%
1987 1860 0.000515862 101 1759 -89%
1988 1826 0.000494176 72 1754 -92%
1989 2093 0.000544422 81 2012 -92%
1990 2039 0.000515879 85 1954 -92%
1991 1898 0.000487258 94 1804 -90%
1992 1905 0.000495929 126 1779 -87%
1993 2020 0.000535769 166 1854 -84%
1994 2050 0.000551423 194 1856 -81%
1995 2460 0.000671736 280 2180 -77%
1996 2387 0.000654476 287 2100 -76%
1997 2244 0.000618907 250 1994 -78%
1998 2079 0.000565221 276 1803 -73%
1999 2404 0.000650809 395 2009 -67%
2000 2231 0.000590227 283 1948 -75%
2001 1829 0.000488595 264 1565 -71%
2002 1789 0.000478561 214 1575 -76%
2003 1772 0.000466031 200 1572 -77%
2004 1907 0.000499094 240 1667 -75%
2005 2202 0.000572715 252 1950 -77%
2006 2057 0.000519945 197 1860 -81%
2007 2041 0.000510546 210 1831 -79%
2008 1649 0.000419522 170 1479 -79%
2009 1439 0.000376684 176 1263 -76%
2010 1581 0.00042779 167 1414 -79%
2011 1402 0.000383291 170 1232 -76%
2012 1473 0.000402749 234 1239 -68%
2013 1405 0.000385389 226 1179 -68%
2014 1274 0.000343732 212 1062 -67%
2015 1109 0.000299656 213 896 -62%
2016 1016 0.000276937 216 800 -57%
2017 880 0.000246072 205 675 -53%
2018 809 0.000230098 179 630 -56%
2019 736 0.000212047 184 552 -50%
2020 809 0.000242174 272 537 -33%
2021 917 0.000270665 339 578 -26%
2022 900 0.000266025 332 568 -26%
2023 919 0.000277543 370 549 -19%
2024 954 0.000286616 404 550 -15%

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