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How popular is “Eli” in the USA?

Number of people named “Eli” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Eli” by birth year

This chart shows how “Eli” 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 73 0.000362312 73 -100%
1881 97 0.000503404 97 -100%
1882 94 0.000424316 94 -100%
1883 82 0.000377974 82 -100%
1884 67 0.000275198 67 -100%
1885 56 0.000232506 56 -100%
1886 66 0.000258503 66 -100%
1887 51 0.000206151 51 -100%
1888 75 0.000250439 75 -100%
1889 60 0.000207651 60 -100%
1890 49 0.000162574 49 -100%
1891 49 0.000170926 49 -100%
1892 60 0.00017944 60 -100%
1893 53 0.000162965 53 -100%
1894 60 0.000177153 60 -100%
1895 55 0.000156686 55 -100%
1896 43 0.000120285 43 -100%
1897 39 0.000112406 39 -100%
1898 46 0.000120591 46 -100%
1899 38 0.000112017 38 -100%
1900 45 0.000099943 45 -100%
1901 45 0.000130129 45 -100%
1902 51 0.000131874 51 -100%
1903 47 0.000123295 47 -100%
1904 43 0.000106571 43 -100%
1905 43 0.000101434 43 -100%
1906 44 0.000102696 44 -100%
1907 50 0.000107437 50 -100%
1908 55 0.000112555 55 -100%
1909 60 0.000117365 60 -100%
1910 63 0.000106651 63 -100%
1911 81 0.000125722 81 -100%
1912 159 0.000160921 159 -100%
1913 167 0.000146864 167 -100%
1914 208 0.000146857 208 -100%
1915 269 0.0001468 269 -100%
1916 277 0.000143196 6 271 -96%
1917 246 0.000122586 246 -100%
1918 286 0.00013173 286 -100%
1919 241 0.000114205 241 -100%
1920 260 0.00011491 7 253 -95%
1921 296 0.000126793 5 291 -97%
1922 275 0.000120132 275 -100%
1923 260 0.000112922 260 -100%
1924 247 0.000103711 247 -100%
1925 291 0.000124716 291 -100%
1926 266 0.000115858 266 -100%
1927 224 0.000096578 224 -100%
1928 215 0.000095093 215 -100%
1929 198 0.000090322 198 -100%
1930 190 0.000085459 190 -100%
1931 174 0.000082684 174 -100%
1932 186 0.000088098 186 -100%
1933 157 0.000078522 157 -100%
1934 176 0.000084745 176 -100%
1935 175 0.000083736 175 -100%
1936 161 0.000077494 161 -100%
1937 144 0.000067584 144 -100%
1938 119 0.000053784 119 -100%
1939 110 0.000049922 110 -100%
1940 140 0.000060799 140 -100%
1941 130 0.000053357 130 -100%
1942 130 0.000047587 130 -100%
1943 118 0.000041806 118 -100%
1944 124 0.000046095 124 -100%
1945 125 0.000047118 125 -100%
1946 116 0.000036303 116 -100%
1947 143 0.000039697 143 -100%
1948 137 0.000039681 137 -100%
1949 125 0.00003587 125 -100%
1950 139 0.000039676 139 -100%
1951 142 0.000038548 142 -100%
1952 140 0.000036861 140 -100%
1953 126 0.000032696 126 -100%
1954 135 0.000033914 135 -100%
1955 119 0.000029638 119 -100%
1956 153 0.000037109 153 -100%
1957 129 0.000030699 129 -100%
1958 117 0.000028303 117 -100%
1959 146 0.000035113 146 -100%
1960 154 0.000037074 5 149 -94%
1961 146 0.000035246 146 -100%
1962 140 0.000034693 140 -100%
1963 139 0.000035117 139 -100%
1964 121 0.000031125 121 -100%
1965 117 0.000032272 117 -100%
1966 117 0.000033663 117 -100%
1967 126 0.000037115 126 -100%
1968 139 0.000041144 139 -100%
1969 129 0.000037119 129 -100%
1970 232 0.000064328 232 -100%
1971 268 0.00007808 268 -100%
1972 269 0.000085587 5 264 -96%
1973 346 0.000114688 7 339 -96%
1974 378 0.000124342 5 373 -97%
1975 338 0.000111943 338 -100%
1976 393 0.000129519 12 381 -94%
1977 483 0.000152054 7 476 -97%
1978 447 0.000140838 6 441 -97%
1979 498 0.000149684 498 -100%
1980 548 0.000159094 9 539 -97%
1981 555 0.000160434 5 550 -98%
1982 513 0.000146239 10 503 -96%
1983 530 0.000153032 12 518 -95%
1984 514 0.000147331 7 507 -97%
1985 568 0.000159143 10 558 -96%
1986 568 0.000159682 5 563 -98%
1987 556 0.000154204 6 550 -98%
1988 554 0.000149931 11 543 -96%
1989 633 0.000164653 9 624 -97%
1990 675 0.000170779 8 667 -98%
1991 725 0.000186123 13 712 -96%
1992 720 0.000187438 12 708 -97%
1993 891 0.000236322 14 877 -97%
1994 907 0.000243971 14 893 -97%
1995 878 0.00023975 16 862 -96%
1996 899 0.000246491 8 891 -98%
1997 878 0.000242157 12 866 -97%
1998 1035 0.000281387 19 1016 -96%
1999 1084 0.000293459 16 1068 -97%
2000 1505 0.000398158 9 1496 -99%
2001 1665 0.000444784 21 1644 -97%
2002 1971 0.000527246 18 1953 -98%
2003 2009 0.000528362 16 1993 -98%
2004 2592 0.00067837 42 2550 -97%
2005 2715 0.00070614 18 2697 -99%
2006 3016 0.00076235 22 2994 -99%
2007 3270 0.000817974 20 3250 -99%
2008 4541 0.001155275 20 4521 -99%
2009 4951 0.001296014 30 4921 -99%
2010 6601 0.001786111 31 6570 -99%
2011 7258 0.001984257 39 7219 -99%
2012 8107 0.002216622 31 8076 -99%
2013 7985 0.002190271 36 7949 -99%
2014 7530 0.002031634 22 7508 -99%
2015 7185 0.001941413 27 7158 -99%
2016 7162 0.001952191 33 7129 -99%
2017 6659 0.001862035 23 6636 -99%
2018 6129 0.001743225 38 6091 -99%
2019 5568 0.00160418 33 5535 -99%
2020 5307 0.001588648 29 5278 -99%
2021 4939 0.001457814 29 4910 -99%
2022 4743 0.001401954 41 4702 -98%
2023 4135 0.001248793 29 4106 -99%
2024 3767 0.001131741 44 3723 -98%

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