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How popular is “Elbert” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elbert” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elbert” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elbert” 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 79 0.000392091 79 -100%
1881 84 0.000435938 84 -100%
1882 99 0.000446886 99 -100%
1883 92 0.000424069 92 -100%
1884 90 0.000369669 90 -100%
1885 92 0.000381974 92 -100%
1886 94 0.000368171 94 -100%
1887 82 0.000331458 82 -100%
1888 98 0.00032724 98 -100%
1889 95 0.000328781 95 -100%
1890 89 0.000295288 89 -100%
1891 77 0.000268599 77 -100%
1892 93 0.000278132 93 -100%
1893 89 0.000273658 89 -100%
1894 97 0.000286398 97 -100%
1895 106 0.000301977 106 -100%
1896 96 0.000268543 96 -100%
1897 95 0.000273809 95 -100%
1898 87 0.000228074 87 -100%
1899 81 0.000238773 81 -100%
1900 125 0.000277619 125 -100%
1901 78 0.000225556 78 -100%
1902 108 0.000279262 108 -100%
1903 95 0.000249213 95 -100%
1904 100 0.000247841 100 -100%
1905 132 0.000311378 132 -100%
1906 85 0.000198389 85 -100%
1907 120 0.000257848 120 -100%
1908 121 0.000247622 121 -100%
1909 167 0.000326667 167 -100%
1910 183 0.000309796 183 -100%
1911 195 0.000302664 195 -100%
1912 342 0.000346132 342 -100%
1913 416 0.00036584 416 -100%
1914 450 0.000317719 450 -100%
1915 669 0.00036509 669 -100%
1916 662 0.000342222 662 -100%
1917 675 0.000336365 675 -100%
1918 663 0.000305374 663 -100%
1919 741 0.000351144 6 735 -98%
1920 793 0.000350475 7 786 -98%
1921 720 0.000308417 6 714 -98%
1922 754 0.000329379 754 -100%
1923 772 0.000335291 772 -100%
1924 734 0.000308195 8 726 -98%
1925 682 0.00029229 9 673 -97%
1926 717 0.000312295 717 -100%
1927 677 0.000291891 677 -100%
1928 663 0.000293241 7 656 -98%
1929 601 0.000274159 601 -100%
1930 619 0.000278416 10 609 -97%
1931 566 0.000268962 566 -100%
1932 532 0.000251979 532 -100%
1933 542 0.000271075 5 537 -98%
1934 527 0.000253754 527 -100%
1935 547 0.000261735 547 -100%
1936 491 0.000236333 491 -100%
1937 475 0.000222935 475 -100%
1938 473 0.000213778 473 -100%
1939 460 0.000208764 460 -100%
1940 479 0.000208018 9 470 -96%
1941 505 0.000207271 505 -100%
1942 471 0.000172413 471 -100%
1943 498 0.000176436 498 -100%
1944 414 0.000153899 414 -100%
1945 416 0.000156809 416 -100%
1946 418 0.000130817 418 -100%
1947 461 0.000127973 6 455 -97%
1948 386 0.000111802 386 -100%
1949 417 0.000119663 417 -100%
1950 344 0.000098192 344 -100%
1951 397 0.000107771 397 -100%
1952 368 0.000096893 6 362 -97%
1953 361 0.000093678 7 354 -96%
1954 348 0.000087422 348 -100%
1955 345 0.000085926 345 -100%
1956 314 0.000076157 314 -100%
1957 361 0.000085909 5 356 -97%
1958 347 0.00008394 347 -100%
1959 340 0.00008177 340 -100%
1960 263 0.000063315 263 -100%
1961 256 0.000061801 256 -100%
1962 226 0.000056005 226 -100%
1963 273 0.000068971 273 -100%
1964 241 0.000061992 241 -100%
1965 235 0.00006482 235 -100%
1966 202 0.000058119 202 -100%
1967 189 0.000055672 189 -100%
1968 185 0.000054759 185 -100%
1969 176 0.000050643 176 -100%
1970 161 0.000044641 161 -100%
1971 198 0.000057686 198 -100%
1972 152 0.000048362 6 146 -92%
1973 158 0.000052372 158 -100%
1974 131 0.000043092 131 -100%
1975 126 0.00004173 126 -100%
1976 104 0.000034275 104 -100%
1977 104 0.00003274 104 -100%
1978 113 0.000035603 113 -100%
1979 97 0.000029155 97 -100%
1980 86 0.000024967 86 -100%
1981 99 0.000028618 99 -100%
1982 90 0.000025656 90 -100%
1983 66 0.000019057 66 -100%
1984 74 0.000021211 74 -100%
1985 81 0.000022695 81 -100%
1986 59 0.000016587 59 -100%
1987 76 0.000021078 76 -100%
1988 76 0.000020568 76 -100%
1989 84 0.00002185 84 -100%
1990 76 0.000019228 76 -100%
1991 68 0.000017457 68 -100%
1992 69 0.000017963 69 -100%
1993 47 0.000012466 47 -100%
1994 43 0.000011566 43 -100%
1995 48 0.000013107 48 -100%
1996 42 0.000011516 42 -100%
1997 40 0.000011032 40 -100%
1998 28 0.000007612 28 -100%
1999 30 0.000008122 30 -100%
2000 37 0.000009789 37 -100%
2001 34 0.000009083 34 -100%
2002 23 0.000006153 23 -100%
2003 23 0.000006049 23 -100%
2004 25 0.000006543 25 -100%
2005 30 0.000007803 30 -100%
2006 21 0.000005308 21 -100%
2007 28 0.000007004 28 -100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 -100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 -100%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 -100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 -100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 -100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 -100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 -100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 -100%
2016 21 0.000005724 21 -100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 -100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 -100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 -100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

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