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How popular is “Elinor” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elinor” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elinor” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elinor” 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 9 0.000044669 9 100%
1881 8 0.000041518 8 100%
1882 10 0.00004514 10 100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 100%
1884 13 0.000053397 13 100%
1885 18 0.000074734 18 100%
1886 16 0.000062667 16 100%
1887 11 0.000044464 11 100%
1888 21 0.000070123 21 100%
1889 24 0.000083061 24 100%
1890 23 0.00007631 23 100%
1891 20 0.000069766 20 100%
1892 15 0.00004486 15 100%
1893 34 0.000104544 34 100%
1894 27 0.000079719 27 100%
1895 24 0.000068372 24 100%
1896 34 0.000095109 34 100%
1897 34 0.000097995 34 100%
1898 39 0.00010224 39 100%
1899 27 0.000079591 27 100%
1900 52 0.000115489 52 100%
1901 41 0.000118562 41 100%
1902 34 0.000087916 34 100%
1903 40 0.000104932 40 100%
1904 52 0.000128877 52 100%
1905 61 0.000143894 61 100%
1906 69 0.000161045 69 100%
1907 100 0.000214874 100 100%
1908 91 0.000186228 91 100%
1909 116 0.000226906 116 100%
1910 133 0.000225152 133 100%
1911 176 0.000273174 176 100%
1912 268 0.000271238 268 100%
1913 279 0.000245359 279 100%
1914 358 0.000252763 358 100%
1915 508 0.000277228 508 100%
1916 580 0.000299832 580 100%
1917 548 0.000273078 548 100%
1918 571 0.000262999 571 100%
1919 589 0.000279115 589 100%
1920 656 0.000289926 656 100%
1921 612 0.000262154 612 100%
1922 539 0.000235458 539 100%
1923 556 0.000241479 556 100%
1924 595 0.000249831 595 100%
1925 542 0.000232289 542 100%
1926 607 0.000264384 607 100%
1927 604 0.000260417 604 100%
1928 523 0.00023132 523 100%
1929 527 0.000240402 527 100%
1930 509 0.00022894 509 100%
1931 466 0.000221442 466 100%
1932 377 0.000178564 377 100%
1933 441 0.000220561 441 100%
1934 409 0.000196936 409 100%
1935 354 0.000169386 354 100%
1936 340 0.000163652 340 100%
1937 298 0.000139862 298 100%
1938 301 0.000136041 301 100%
1939 267 0.000121174 267 100%
1940 285 0.000123769 285 100%
1941 255 0.000104662 255 100%
1942 262 0.000095907 262 100%
1943 204 0.000072275 204 100%
1944 162 0.000060221 162 100%
1945 121 0.00004561 121 100%
1946 155 0.000048509 155 100%
1947 131 0.000036365 131 100%
1948 129 0.000037364 129 100%
1949 125 0.00003587 125 100%
1950 87 0.000024833 87 100%
1951 110 0.000029861 110 100%
1952 121 0.000031859 121 100%
1953 100 0.000025949 100 100%
1954 76 0.000019092 76 100%
1955 90 0.000022415 90 100%
1956 80 0.000019403 80 100%
1957 65 0.000015468 65 100%
1958 55 0.000013305 55 100%
1959 53 0.000012747 53 100%
1960 68 0.00001637 68 100%
1961 57 0.00001376 57 100%
1962 48 0.000011895 48 100%
1963 48 0.000012127 48 100%
1964 41 0.000010546 41 100%
1965 40 0.000011033 40 100%
1966 31 0.000008919 31 100%
1967 26 0.000007659 26 100%
1968 26 0.000007696 26 100%
1969 32 0.000009208 32 100%
1970 26 0.000007209 26 100%
1971 27 0.000007866 27 100%
1972 30 0.000009545 30 100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 100%
1974 23 0.000007566 23 100%
1975 18 0.000005961 18 100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 100%
1977 21 0.000006611 21 100%
1978 28 0.000008822 28 100%
1979 24 0.000007214 24 100%
1980 21 0.000006097 21 100%
1981 28 0.000008094 28 100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 100%
1984 28 0.000008026 28 100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 100%
1986 26 0.000007309 26 100%
1987 24 0.000006656 24 100%
1988 24 0.000006495 24 100%
1989 32 0.000008324 32 100%
1990 22 0.000005566 22 100%
1991 31 0.000007958 31 100%
1992 27 0.000007029 27 100%
1993 32 0.000008487 32 100%
1994 27 0.000007263 27 100%
1995 54 0.000014745 54 100%
1996 44 0.000012064 44 100%
1997 48 0.000013239 48 100%
1998 54 0.000014681 54 100%
1999 66 0.000017867 66 100%
2000 49 0.000012963 49 100%
2001 57 0.000015227 57 100%
2002 71 0.000018993 71 100%
2003 64 0.000016832 64 100%
2004 71 0.000018582 71 100%
2005 65 0.000016906 65 100%
2006 75 0.000018958 75 100%
2007 83 0.000020762 83 100%
2008 102 0.00002595 102 100%
2009 96 0.00002513 96 100%
2010 105 0.000028411 105 100%
2011 99 0.000027066 99 100%
2012 134 0.000036638 134 100%
2013 120 0.000032916 120 100%
2014 144 0.000038852 144 100%
2015 165 0.000044584 165 100%
2016 171 0.000046611 171 100%
2017 165 0.000046138 165 100%
2018 159 0.000045223 159 100%
2019 162 0.000046673 162 100%
2020 144 0.000043106 144 100%
2021 172 0.000050768 172 100%
2022 175 0.000051727 175 100%
2023 164 0.000049529 164 100%
2024 144 0.000043263 144 100%

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