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How popular is “Elaine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elaine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elaine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elaine” 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 5 0.000024816 5 100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 100%
1889 8 0.000027687 8 100%
1890 12 0.000039814 12 100%
1891 16 0.000055813 16 100%
1892 22 0.000065795 22 100%
1893 24 0.000073796 24 100%
1894 20 0.000059051 20 100%
1895 21 0.000059826 21 100%
1896 38 0.000106298 38 100%
1897 30 0.000086466 30 100%
1898 29 0.000076025 29 100%
1899 27 0.000079591 27 100%
1900 50 0.000111047 50 100%
1901 43 0.000124345 43 100%
1902 48 0.000124117 48 100%
1903 53 0.000139035 53 100%
1904 57 0.000141269 57 100%
1905 79 0.000186355 79 100%
1906 82 0.000191387 82 100%
1907 103 0.00022132 103 100%
1908 129 0.000263993 129 100%
1909 139 0.000271896 139 100%
1910 195 0.000330111 195 100%
1911 199 0.000308873 199 100%
1912 313 0.000316782 313 100%
1913 411 0.000361443 411 100%
1914 568 0.000401033 568 100%
1915 1212 0.000661418 1212 100%
1916 1236 0.000638952 1236 100%
1917 1281 0.000638346 1281 100%
1918 1479 0.000681218 1473 6 99%
1919 1688 0.000799907 1688 100%
1920 2440 0.001078385 2433 7 99%
1921 2931 0.001255512 2922 9 99%
1922 2798 0.001222285 2792 6 100%
1923 3221 0.001398926 3212 9 99%
1924 3809 0.001599338 3802 7 100%
1925 3789 0.001623879 3776 13 99%
1926 4019 0.001750508 4004 15 99%
1927 4125 0.001778509 4109 16 99%
1928 4022 0.001778908 4005 17 99%
1929 3864 0.001762644 3852 12 99%
1930 3961 0.001781596 3954 7 100%
1931 3632 0.001725917 3622 10 99%
1932 3593 0.001701802 3576 17 99%
1933 3579 0.001789995 3571 8 100%
1934 3913 0.001884134 3900 13 99%
1935 4099 0.001961338 4080 19 99%
1936 4274 0.002057203 4259 15 99%
1937 4549 0.002135009 4527 22 99%
1938 4854 0.002193825 4834 20 99%
1939 4800 0.00217841 4785 15 99%
1940 4797 0.00208322 4782 15 99%
1941 5405 0.002218414 5377 28 99%
1942 6005 0.00219817 5986 19 99%
1943 5983 0.002119708 5965 18 99%
1944 5648 0.002099567 5629 19 99%
1945 5896 0.002222465 5887 9 100%
1946 6816 0.002133128 6803 13 100%
1947 7071 0.001962901 7058 13 100%
1948 6412 0.001857195 6403 9 100%
1949 6226 0.001786629 6214 12 100%
1950 6046 0.001725773 6037 9 100%
1951 6080 0.001650497 6069 11 100%
1952 5663 0.001491046 5650 13 100%
1953 5505 0.001428518 5495 10 100%
1954 5831 0.001464815 5825 6 100%
1955 5641 0.001404953 5635 6 100%
1956 5318 0.001289826 5310 8 100%
1957 5022 0.001195104 5013 9 100%
1958 4752 0.001149519 4743 9 100%
1959 4462 0.001073114 4455 7 100%
1960 4323 0.00104073 4314 9 100%
1961 3886 0.000938126 3867 19 99%
1962 3624 0.000898058 3614 10 99%
1963 3126 0.000789753 3121 5 100%
1964 2837 0.000729755 2825 12 99%
1965 2510 0.000692328 2498 12 99%
1966 2065 0.000594133 2059 6 99%
1967 1782 0.000524905 1776 6 99%
1968 1706 0.000504971 1706 100%
1969 1683 0.000484272 1683 100%
1970 1446 0.000400941 1437 9 99%
1971 1288 0.000375253 1288 100%
1972 1071 0.000340758 1066 5 99%
1973 994 0.000329479 994 100%
1974 950 0.0003125 950 100%
1975 867 0.000287144 861 6 99%
1976 782 0.00025772 782 100%
1977 864 0.000271998 864 100%
1978 762 0.000240085 757 5 99%
1979 788 0.00023685 783 5 99%
1980 777 0.000225577 771 6 98%
1981 784 0.000226631 784 100%
1982 784 0.000223492 777 7 98%
1983 802 0.000231568 796 6 99%
1984 617 0.000176854 617 100%
1985 660 0.00018492 655 5 98%
1986 664 0.00018667 664 100%
1987 669 0.000185544 669 100%
1988 715 0.000193502 707 8 98%
1989 679 0.000176618 673 6 98%
1990 632 0.0001599 632 100%
1991 610 0.0001566 610 100%
1992 603 0.000156979 603 100%
1993 561 0.000148795 561 100%
1994 567 0.000152516 567 100%
1995 541 0.000147727 541 100%
1996 531 0.000145591 531 100%
1997 452 0.000124664 452 100%
1998 481 0.00013077 481 100%
1999 462 0.000125072 462 100%
2000 453 0.000119844 453 100%
2001 408 0.000108992 408 100%
2002 399 0.000106733 399 100%
2003 427 0.0001123 427 100%
2004 413 0.000108089 413 100%
2005 469 0.000121982 469 100%
2006 393 0.000099338 393 100%
2007 406 0.000101559 406 100%
2008 399 0.00010151 399 100%
2009 371 0.000097116 371 100%
2010 343 0.00009281 343 100%
2011 399 0.000109082 399 100%
2012 400 0.000109368 400 100%
2013 360 0.000098747 360 100%
2014 439 0.000118445 439 100%
2015 423 0.000114296 423 100%
2016 498 0.000135743 498 100%
2017 507 0.000141771 507 100%
2018 470 0.000133679 470 100%
2019 545 0.000157018 545 100%
2020 583 0.000174521 583 100%
2021 647 0.000190971 647 100%
2022 682 0.000201588 682 100%
2023 807 0.000243719 807 100%
2024 843 0.000253267 843 100%

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