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How popular is “Edgar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Edgar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Edgar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Edgar” 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 288 0.001429394 5 283 -97%
1881 312 0.001619198 312 -100%
1882 308 0.001390312 308 -100%
1883 292 0.001345957 292 -100%
1884 290 0.001191156 290 -100%
1885 303 0.001258024 303 -100%
1886 309 0.001210265 309 -100%
1887 266 0.001075217 266 -100%
1888 321 0.001071879 321 -100%
1889 322 0.001114395 322 -100%
1890 343 0.001138019 5 338 -97%
1891 277 0.000966258 277 -100%
1892 303 0.000906171 303 -100%
1893 310 0.000953192 310 -100%
1894 313 0.000924149 313 -100%
1895 323 0.000920176 323 -100%
1896 306 0.000855982 306 -100%
1897 278 0.000801252 278 -100%
1898 290 0.000760247 5 285 -97%
1899 249 0.000734007 249 -100%
1900 374 0.000830635 374 -100%
1901 271 0.000783663 271 -100%
1902 307 0.000793829 307 -100%
1903 259 0.000679433 259 -100%
1904 299 0.000741044 299 -100%
1905 315 0.000743061 315 -100%
1906 301 0.000702531 301 -100%
1907 321 0.000689744 321 -100%
1908 360 0.000736725 360 -100%
1909 347 0.000678763 347 -100%
1910 446 0.000755022 5 441 -98%
1911 486 0.000754333 486 -100%
1912 950 0.000961478 5 945 -99%
1913 1092 0.000960329 5 1087 -99%
1914 1368 0.000965867 7 1361 -99%
1915 1905 0.001039605 10 1895 -99%
1916 1885 0.000974454 11 1874 -99%
1917 1931 0.000962252 11 1920 -99%
1918 2096 0.000965404 11 2085 -99%
1919 1998 0.000946809 12 1986 -99%
1920 2042 0.000902484 13 2029 -99%
1921 2027 0.000868278 13 2014 -99%
1922 1934 0.000844853 11 1923 -99%
1923 1906 0.000827803 9 1897 -99%
1924 1890 0.000793581 12 1878 -99%
1925 1819 0.000779582 10 1809 -99%
1926 1692 0.000736964 15 1677 -98%
1927 1734 0.000747621 11 1723 -99%
1928 1617 0.00071519 17 1600 -98%
1929 1498 0.000683344 11 1487 -99%
1930 1542 0.000693567 16 1526 -98%
1931 1389 0.000660049 12 1377 -98%
1932 1316 0.000623315 9 1307 -99%
1933 1191 0.000595665 8 1183 -99%
1934 1154 0.000555658 5 1149 -99%
1935 1151 0.000550744 7 1144 -99%
1936 1074 0.000516948 6 1068 -99%
1937 1068 0.000501251 1068 -100%
1938 1037 0.000468685 7 1030 -99%
1939 1015 0.000460643 7 1008 -99%
1940 985 0.000427761 985 -100%
1941 995 0.000408385 6 989 -99%
1942 1049 0.000383993 1049 -100%
1943 1082 0.00038334 1082 -100%
1944 976 0.000362815 976 -100%
1945 869 0.000327565 869 -100%
1946 909 0.00028448 909 -100%
1947 1056 0.000293144 1056 -100%
1948 976 0.000282692 976 -100%
1949 913 0.000261997 913 -100%
1950 937 0.000267458 937 -100%
1951 938 0.000254633 938 -100%
1952 889 0.00023407 889 -100%
1953 897 0.000232767 897 -100%
1954 913 0.000229356 913 -100%
1955 933 0.000232374 933 -100%
1956 851 0.000206401 851 -100%
1957 778 0.000185144 5 773 -99%
1958 751 0.000181668 751 -100%
1959 752 0.000180857 752 -100%
1960 715 0.000172131 715 -100%
1961 695 0.000167781 695 -100%
1962 698 0.00017297 5 693 -99%
1963 660 0.000166742 8 652 -98%
1964 727 0.000187005 5 722 -99%
1965 603 0.000166324 603 -100%
1966 589 0.000169464 8 581 -97%
1967 599 0.000176441 9 590 -97%
1968 601 0.000177894 5 596 -98%
1969 643 0.000185019 6 637 -98%
1970 673 0.000186607 7 666 -98%
1971 674 0.000196367 674 -100%
1972 641 0.000203946 7 634 -98%
1973 599 0.000198549 5 594 -98%
1974 658 0.000216447 6 652 -98%
1975 725 0.000240114 8 717 -98%
1976 669 0.000220479 5 664 -99%
1977 716 0.000225406 5 711 -99%
1978 699 0.000220236 10 689 -97%
1979 810 0.000243463 7 803 -98%
1980 896 0.000260124 8 888 -98%
1981 938 0.000271147 5 933 -99%
1982 843 0.00024031 11 832 -97%
1983 907 0.000261886 11 896 -98%
1984 849 0.000243353 15 834 -96%
1985 888 0.000248802 8 880 -98%
1986 1030 0.000289564 10 1020 -98%
1987 1617 0.000448467 14 1603 -98%
1988 1637 0.000443026 21 1616 -97%
1989 2124 0.000552485 19 2105 -98%
1990 2231 0.000564456 25 2206 -98%
1991 2284 0.000586353 17 2267 -99%
1992 2222 0.000578454 15 2207 -99%
1993 2281 0.000604995 19 2262 -98%
1994 2405 0.000646914 12 2393 -99%
1995 2334 0.00063733 14 2320 -99%
1996 2368 0.000649266 9 2359 -99%
1997 2129 0.000587189 14 2115 -99%
1998 2057 0.00055924 10 2047 -99%
1999 2042 0.000552808 6 2036 -99%
2000 2072 0.000548162 2072 -100%
2001 2386 0.00063739 10 2376 -99%
2002 2195 0.000587167 2195 -100%
2003 2320 0.000610154 2320 -100%
2004 2393 0.000626288 8 2385 -99%
2005 2458 0.000639298 5 2453 -100%
2006 2392 0.000604622 2392 -100%
2007 2420 0.000605351 2420 -100%
2008 2064 0.000525102 2064 -100%
2009 1914 0.000501024 6 1908 -99%
2010 1644 0.000444837 1644 -100%
2011 1473 0.000402702 5 1468 -99%
2012 1317 0.000360095 1317 -100%
2013 1210 0.000331901 1210 -100%
2014 1180 0.00031837 1180 -100%
2015 1114 0.000301007 1114 -100%
2016 1013 0.00027612 1013 -100%
2017 939 0.00026257 939 -100%
2018 925 0.000263091 925 -100%
2019 812 0.000233943 812 -100%
2020 789 0.000236187 789 -100%
2021 758 0.000223734 758 -100%
2022 774 0.000228782 774 -100%
2023 714 0.000215632 714 -100%
2024 679 0.000203996 679 -100%

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