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How popular is “Elgie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elgie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elgie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elgie” 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
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 -100%
1889 8 0.000027687 8 100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 100%
1895 11 0.000031337 6 5 9%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 7 0.000020635 7 100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 100%
1907 15 0.000032231 8 7 7%
1909 13 0.000025429 8 5 23%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 100%
1912 16 0.000016193 7 9 -13%
1913 21 0.000018468 7 14 -33%
1914 23 0.000016239 8 15 -30%
1915 32 0.000017463 14 18 -13%
1916 34 0.000017576 14 20 -18%
1917 26 0.000012956 12 14 -8%
1918 44 0.000020266 12 32 -45%
1919 38 0.000018007 17 21 -11%
1920 25 0.000011049 9 16 -28%
1921 36 0.000015421 15 21 -17%
1922 30 0.000013105 8 22 -47%
1923 34 0.000014767 12 22 -29%
1924 34 0.000014276 14 20 -18%
1925 37 0.000015857 12 25 -35%
1926 38 0.000016551 18 20 -5%
1927 32 0.000013797 21 11 31%
1928 36 0.000015923 17 19 -6%
1929 27 0.000012317 13 14 -4%
1930 27 0.000012144 15 12 11%
1931 28 0.000013306 11 17 -21%
1932 31 0.000014683 16 15 3%
1933 35 0.000017505 18 17 3%
1934 30 0.000014445 11 19 -27%
1935 26 0.000012441 8 18 -38%
1936 25 0.000012033 9 16 -28%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 -100%
1938 21 0.000009491 10 11 -5%
1939 18 0.000008169 11 7 22%
1940 26 0.000011291 11 15 -15%
1941 17 0.000006977 6 11 -29%
1942 18 0.000006589 6 12 -33%
1943 23 0.000008149 8 15 -30%
1944 14 0.000005204 6 8 -14%
1945 16 0.000006031 5 11 -38%
1946 16 0.000005007 5 11 -38%
1947 17 0.000004719 9 8 6%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1949 21 0.000006026 6 15 -43%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 -100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 -100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%

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