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How popular is “Eh” in the USA?

Number of people named “Eh” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Eh” by birth year

This chart shows how “Eh” 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
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 23 0.000005851 8 15 -30%
2009 22 0.000005759 12 10 9%
2010 44 0.000011906 20 24 -9%
2011 42 0.000011482 14 28 -33%
2012 62 0.000016952 29 33 -6%
2013 56 0.000015361 23 33 -18%
2014 71 0.000019156 28 43 -21%
2015 47 0.0000127 17 30 -28%
2016 60 0.000016355 31 29 3%
2017 62 0.000017337 20 42 -35%
2018 40 0.000011377 14 26 -30%
2019 34 0.000009796 11 23 -35%
2020 27 0.000008082 8 19 -41%
2021 28 0.000008265 11 17 -21%
2022 29 0.000008572 12 17 -17%
2023 21 0.000006342 9 12 -14%
2024 19 0.000005708 5 14 -47%

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