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How popular is “Ellington” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ellington” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ellington” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ellington” 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
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 -100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 -100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 -100%
2001 17 0.000004541 5 12 -41%
2002 18 0.000004815 9 9 0%
2003 14 0.000003682 5 9 -29%
2004 18 0.000004711 10 8 11%
2005 19 0.000004942 6 13 -37%
2006 20 0.000005055 9 11 -10%
2007 25 0.000006254 11 14 -12%
2008 32 0.000008141 19 13 19%
2009 29 0.000007591 15 14 3%
2010 48 0.000012988 28 20 17%
2011 43 0.000011756 26 17 21%
2012 51 0.000013944 32 19 25%
2013 58 0.000015909 38 20 31%
2014 80 0.000021584 52 28 30%
2015 112 0.000030263 85 27 52%
2016 124 0.000033799 78 46 26%
2017 100 0.000027963 55 45 10%
2018 116 0.000032993 83 33 43%
2019 107 0.000030827 78 29 46%
2020 89 0.000026642 60 29 35%
2021 102 0.000030107 65 37 27%
2022 104 0.000030741 67 37 29%
2023 98 0.000029597 65 33 33%
2024 63 0.000018927 44 19 40%

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