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How popular is “Dylan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dylan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dylan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dylan” 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
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 -100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 -100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 -100%
1958 22 0.000005322 22 -100%
1959 30 0.000007215 30 -100%
1960 39 0.000009389 39 -100%
1961 32 0.000007725 32 -100%
1962 20 0.000004956 20 -100%
1963 33 0.000008337 33 -100%
1964 38 0.000009775 38 -100%
1965 47 0.000012964 47 -100%
1966 62 0.000017838 62 -100%
1967 68 0.00002003 5 63 -85%
1968 121 0.000035816 121 -100%
1969 237 0.000068195 9 228 -92%
1970 324 0.000089837 9 315 -94%
1971 266 0.000077498 9 257 -93%
1972 308 0.000097996 6 302 -96%
1973 282 0.000093474 5 277 -96%
1974 394 0.000129605 10 384 -95%
1975 461 0.00015268 8 453 -97%
1976 404 0.000133144 5 399 -98%
1977 535 0.000168425 5 530 -98%
1978 488 0.000153756 8 480 -97%
1979 650 0.000195371 11 639 -97%
1980 838 0.000243286 16 822 -96%
1981 750 0.000216802 21 729 -94%
1982 709 0.000202112 9 700 -97%
1983 798 0.000230413 21 777 -95%
1984 992 0.000284342 21 971 -96%
1985 1354 0.000379366 23 1331 -97%
1986 1868 0.00052515 35 1833 -96%
1987 2034 0.00056412 37 1997 -96%
1988 2213 0.00059891 55 2158 -95%
1989 2915 0.000758237 62 2853 -96%
1990 4491 0.001136249 77 4414 -97%
1991 9879 0.002536156 116 9763 -98%
1992 15226 0.00396379 163 15063 -98%
1993 12944 0.003433168 257 12687 -96%
1994 12737 0.003426086 207 12530 -97%
1995 12265 0.003349121 174 12091 -97%
1996 12195 0.003343666 158 12037 -97%
1997 13151 0.003627113 183 12968 -97%
1998 14715 0.004000591 175 14540 -98%
1999 16110 0.004361283 129 15981 -98%
2000 15533 0.004109364 128 15405 -98%
2001 16696 0.004460128 199 16497 -98%
2002 15077 0.004033126 256 14821 -97%
2003 16275 0.004280283 572 15703 -93%
2004 15472 0.004049283 620 14852 -92%
2005 14250 0.003706261 468 13782 -93%
2006 13551 0.003425266 380 13171 -94%
2007 13231 0.003309667 420 12811 -94%
2008 12288 0.003126189 581 11707 -91%
2009 11918 0.003119752 546 11372 -91%
2010 11026 0.002983436 508 10518 -91%
2011 10388 0.002839965 598 9790 -88%
2012 10595 0.002896893 595 10000 -89%
2013 10740 0.002945963 613 10127 -89%
2014 11244 0.003033691 828 10416 -85%
2015 11113 0.003002773 815 10298 -85%
2016 10561 0.002878678 842 9719 -84%
2017 10209 0.00285471 894 9315 -82%
2018 9386 0.002669589 776 8610 -83%
2019 8284 0.002386678 729 7555 -82%
2020 7471 0.00223644 616 6855 -84%
2021 7298 0.002154106 536 6762 -85%
2022 7263 0.002146825 525 6738 -86%
2023 7523 0.002271989 451 7072 -88%
2024 7868 0.002363827 404 7464 -90%

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