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How popular is “Dryden” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dryden” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dryden” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dryden” 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
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 -100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 -100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 -100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 -100%
2002 24 0.00000642 24 -100%
2003 27 0.000007101 27 -100%
2004 27 0.000007066 27 -100%
2005 20 0.000005202 20 -100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 -100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 -100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 -100%
2009 24 0.000006282 24 -100%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 -100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 -100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 -100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 -100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 -100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 -100%

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