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How popular is “Eleanor” in the USA?

Number of people named “Eleanor” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Eleanor” by birth year

This chart shows how “Eleanor” 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 129 0.000640249 129 100%
1881 110 0.000570871 110 100%
1882 174 0.000785436 174 100%
1883 185 0.000852747 185 100%
1884 198 0.000813272 198 100%
1885 222 0.00092172 222 100%
1886 271 0.00106143 271 100%
1887 247 0.000998416 247 100%
1888 288 0.000961686 288 100%
1889 312 0.001079787 312 100%
1890 351 0.001164561 351 100%
1891 376 0.001311599 376 100%
1892 389 0.001163368 389 100%
1893 397 0.001220701 397 100%
1894 450 0.001328649 450 100%
1895 544 0.001549769 544 100%
1896 493 0.001379083 493 100%
1897 559 0.001611151 559 100%
1898 620 0.001625356 620 100%
1899 575 0.001694995 575 100%
1900 753 0.001672375 753 100%
1901 686 0.001983737 686 100%
1902 837 0.002164284 837 100%
1903 840 0.002203568 840 100%
1904 868 0.002151257 868 100%
1905 1041 0.00245564 1041 100%
1906 1093 0.00255105 1088 5 99%
1907 1155 0.00248179 1155 100%
1908 1311 0.002682907 1302 9 99%
1909 1460 0.002855891 1460 100%
1910 1803 0.003052254 1798 5 99%
1911 2041 0.003167887 2035 6 99%
1912 3126 0.003163769 3120 6 100%
1913 3945 0.003469321 3938 7 100%
1914 5386 0.003802748 5374 12 100%
1915 7051 0.003847904 7036 15 100%
1916 7416 0.003833713 7406 10 100%
1917 7682 0.00382808 7669 13 100%
1918 8187 0.00377088 8176 11 100%
1919 7621 0.003611429 7611 10 100%
1920 8507 0.003759762 8497 10 100%
1921 8068 0.003455979 8054 14 100%
1922 7874 0.003439696 7852 22 99%
1923 7788 0.003382438 7772 16 100%
1924 8217 0.003450187 8193 24 99%
1925 7743 0.003318473 7724 19 100%
1926 7324 0.003190028 7305 19 99%
1927 6994 0.00301549 6963 31 99%
1928 6564 0.00290322 6535 29 99%
1929 5885 0.002684565 5865 20 99%
1930 5849 0.002630788 5823 26 99%
1931 5285 0.002511419 5255 30 99%
1932 4851 0.002297646 4836 15 99%
1933 5118 0.002559708 5106 12 100%
1934 4731 0.002278006 4718 13 99%
1935 4187 0.002003445 4166 21 99%
1936 4363 0.002100042 4341 22 99%
1937 4291 0.002013921 4275 16 99%
1938 4070 0.001839487 4049 21 99%
1939 3827 0.001736828 3810 17 99%
1940 3606 0.001565998 3584 22 99%
1941 3267 0.001340899 3250 17 99%
1942 3176 0.001162596 3165 11 99%
1943 2738 0.000970042 2729 9 99%
1944 2201 0.000818192 2190 11 99%
1945 1876 0.000707148 1876 100%
1946 1939 0.000606827 1933 6 99%
1947 1853 0.00051439 1853 100%
1948 1664 0.000481967 1664 100%
1949 1517 0.000435322 1517 100%
1950 1371 0.000391339 1371 100%
1951 1296 0.000351816 1296 100%
1952 1249 0.000328857 1249 100%
1953 1261 0.000327223 1254 7 99%
1954 1117 0.000280603 1117 100%
1955 1043 0.000259771 1043 100%
1956 1044 0.000253211 1044 100%
1957 962 0.000228931 962 100%
1958 864 0.000209003 864 100%
1959 865 0.000208033 865 100%
1960 826 0.000198853 826 100%
1961 748 0.000180576 748 100%
1962 763 0.000189078 763 100%
1963 667 0.000168511 667 100%
1964 648 0.000166684 648 100%
1965 603 0.000166324 603 100%
1966 473 0.000136089 473 100%
1967 443 0.00013049 443 100%
1968 408 0.000120767 408 100%
1969 360 0.000103587 360 100%
1970 366 0.000101483 366 100%
1971 325 0.000094687 325 100%
1972 300 0.00009545 300 100%
1973 266 0.00008817 266 100%
1974 228 0.000075 228 100%
1975 234 0.000077499 234 100%
1976 257 0.000084698 257 100%
1977 228 0.000071777 228 100%
1978 269 0.000084755 269 100%
1979 276 0.000082958 276 100%
1980 258 0.000074902 258 100%
1981 270 0.000078049 270 100%
1982 265 0.000075542 265 100%
1983 263 0.000075938 263 100%
1984 244 0.000069939 244 100%
1985 270 0.000075649 270 100%
1986 263 0.000073937 263 100%
1987 290 0.00008043 290 100%
1988 309 0.000083626 309 100%
1989 364 0.000094682 357 7 96%
1990 378 0.000095636 378 100%
1991 394 0.000101148 394 100%
1992 395 0.00010283 395 100%
1993 445 0.000118028 445 100%
1994 390 0.000104905 390 100%
1995 437 0.000119329 437 100%
1996 487 0.000133527 487 100%
1997 537 0.000148107 537 100%
1998 720 0.000195748 720 100%
1999 688 0.000186255 688 100%
2000 771 0.000203973 771 100%
2001 826 0.000220656 826 100%
2002 961 0.000257069 961 100%
2003 1007 0.000264838 1007 100%
2004 1063 0.000278205 1063 100%
2005 1237 0.000321729 1237 100%
2006 1221 0.00030863 1221 100%
2007 1272 0.000318184 1272 100%
2008 1343 0.000341672 1343 100%
2009 1491 0.000390296 1486 5 99%
2010 1851 0.000500847 1851 100%
2011 2084 0.000569743 2084 100%
2012 2383 0.000651562 2383 100%
2013 3013 0.000826461 3013 100%
2014 3740 0.001009072 3740 100%
2015 4439 0.001199434 4439 100%
2016 5139 0.001400769 5139 100%
2017 5549 0.001551649 5549 100%
2018 5732 0.001630309 5727 5 100%
2019 6205 0.001787704 6198 7 100%
2020 6378 0.001909251 6378 100%
2021 7102 0.002096253 7097 5 100%
2022 6931 0.002048692 6925 6 100%
2023 6763 0.002042464 6757 6 100%
2024 7137 0.002144208 7127 10 100%

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