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How popular is “Dwight” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dwight” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dwight” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dwight” 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 12 0.000059558 12 -100%
1881 21 0.000108984 21 -100%
1882 17 0.000076738 17 -100%
1883 11 0.000050704 11 -100%
1884 21 0.000086256 21 -100%
1885 30 0.000124557 30 -100%
1886 17 0.000066584 17 -100%
1887 19 0.000076801 19 -100%
1888 21 0.000070123 21 -100%
1889 16 0.000055374 16 -100%
1890 24 0.000079628 24 -100%
1891 25 0.000087207 25 -100%
1892 28 0.000083739 28 -100%
1893 24 0.000073796 24 -100%
1894 25 0.000073814 25 -100%
1895 22 0.000062674 22 -100%
1896 28 0.000078325 28 -100%
1897 25 0.000072055 25 -100%
1898 35 0.000091754 35 -100%
1899 41 0.000120861 41 -100%
1900 59 0.000131036 59 -100%
1901 37 0.000106995 37 -100%
1902 40 0.000103431 40 -100%
1903 28 0.000073452 28 -100%
1904 46 0.000114007 46 -100%
1905 35 0.000082562 35 -100%
1906 59 0.000137705 59 -100%
1907 58 0.000124627 58 -100%
1908 50 0.000102323 50 -100%
1909 43 0.000084112 43 -100%
1910 55 0.000093108 55 -100%
1911 87 0.000135035 87 -100%
1912 186 0.000188247 186 -100%
1913 211 0.000185558 5 206 -95%
1914 284 0.000200516 284 -100%
1915 337 0.000183909 337 -100%
1916 397 0.00020523 397 -100%
1917 349 0.000173913 349 -100%
1918 405 0.00018654 405 -100%
1919 380 0.000180074 380 -100%
1920 412 0.000182088 412 -100%
1921 493 0.00021118 493 -100%
1922 454 0.000198326 7 447 -97%
1923 437 0.000189795 6 431 -97%
1924 456 0.000191467 6 450 -97%
1925 470 0.000201431 470 -100%
1926 468 0.000203841 468 -100%
1927 464 0.000200055 464 -100%
1928 454 0.000200802 454 -100%
1929 471 0.000214856 471 -100%
1930 542 0.000243783 542 -100%
1931 568 0.000269912 568 -100%
1932 635 0.000300764 635 -100%
1933 516 0.000258071 516 -100%
1934 506 0.000243642 506 -100%
1935 475 0.000227284 475 -100%
1936 418 0.000201196 418 -100%
1937 406 0.00019055 406 -100%
1938 435 0.000196604 435 -100%
1939 394 0.000178811 394 -100%
1940 456 0.00019803 456 -100%
1941 536 0.000219994 536 -100%
1942 716 0.000262097 716 -100%
1943 1234 0.000437192 1234 -100%
1944 1504 0.000559091 1504 -100%
1945 1753 0.000660784 1753 -100%
1946 1762 0.000551434 8 1754 -99%
1947 1549 0.00043 7 1542 -99%
1948 1658 0.000480229 8 1650 -99%
1949 1719 0.000493289 1719 -100%
1950 1817 0.000518645 5 1812 -99%
1951 2061 0.000559486 11 2050 -99%
1952 2416 0.000636123 9 2407 -99%
1953 2708 0.000702712 10 2698 -99%
1954 2041 0.000512723 7 2034 -99%
1955 2165 0.000539217 6 2159 -99%
1956 2378 0.000576759 9 2369 -99%
1957 2041 0.000485705 12 2029 -99%
1958 1710 0.000413653 13 1697 -98%
1959 1601 0.000385042 8 1593 -99%
1960 1731 0.000416725 11 1720 -99%
1961 1677 0.000404847 8 1669 -99%
1962 1522 0.000377165 9 1513 -99%
1963 1460 0.000368855 11 1449 -98%
1964 1266 0.00032565 10 1256 -98%
1965 1233 0.000340096 6 1227 -99%
1966 1058 0.000304403 9 1049 -98%
1967 989 0.00029132 5 984 -99%
1968 948 0.000280605 5 943 -99%
1969 1213 0.000349032 13 1200 -98%
1970 1026 0.000284485 1026 -100%
1971 917 0.000267164 11 906 -98%
1972 778 0.000247535 5 773 -99%
1973 720 0.000238657 5 715 -99%
1974 709 0.000233224 9 700 -97%
1975 679 0.00022488 6 673 -98%
1976 607 0.000200046 5 602 -98%
1977 581 0.000182906 8 573 -97%
1978 495 0.000155961 6 489 -98%
1979 552 0.000165915 6 546 -98%
1980 523 0.000151836 6 517 -98%
1981 522 0.000150894 6 516 -98%
1982 492 0.000140252 492 -100%
1983 536 0.000154764 536 -100%
1984 577 0.000165389 6 571 -98%
1985 512 0.000143453 10 502 -96%
1986 517 0.000145344 7 510 -97%
1987 549 0.000152263 549 -100%
1988 487 0.000131798 487 -100%
1989 488 0.000126936 488 -100%
1990 493 0.000124732 493 -100%
1991 466 0.000119632 466 -100%
1992 410 0.000106735 410 -100%
1993 360 0.000095484 360 -100%
1994 361 0.000097104 361 -100%
1995 303 0.000082738 303 -100%
1996 266 0.000072933 266 -100%
1997 244 0.000067296 244 -100%
1998 255 0.000069327 255 -100%
1999 243 0.000065785 243 -100%
2000 215 0.00005688 215 -100%
2001 186 0.000049688 186 -100%
2002 162 0.000043335 162 -100%
2003 177 0.000046551 177 -100%
2004 195 0.000051035 195 -100%
2005 152 0.000039533 152 -100%
2006 161 0.000040696 161 -100%
2007 165 0.000041274 165 -100%
2008 142 0.000036126 142 -100%
2009 168 0.000043977 168 -100%
2010 142 0.000038423 142 -100%
2011 138 0.000037728 138 -100%
2012 136 0.000037185 136 -100%
2013 133 0.000036482 133 -100%
2014 129 0.000034805 129 -100%
2015 103 0.000027831 103 -100%
2016 99 0.000026985 99 -100%
2017 93 0.000026005 93 -100%
2018 93 0.000026451 93 -100%
2019 77 0.000022184 77 -100%
2020 82 0.000024547 82 -100%
2021 70 0.000020661 70 -100%
2022 57 0.000016848 57 -100%
2023 61 0.000018422 61 -100%
2024 53 0.000015923 53 -100%

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