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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Ember” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ember” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ember” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ember” 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
1946 8 0.000002504 8 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 100%
1969 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1970 18 0.000004991 18 100%
1971 14 0.000004079 14 100%
1972 14 0.000004454 14 100%
1973 21 0.000006961 21 100%
1974 19 0.00000625 19 100%
1975 30 0.000009936 30 100%
1976 36 0.000011864 36 100%
1977 35 0.000011018 35 100%
1978 48 0.000015123 48 100%
1979 50 0.000015029 50 100%
1980 35 0.000010161 35 100%
1981 46 0.000013297 46 100%
1982 42 0.000011973 42 100%
1983 40 0.00001155 40 100%
1984 49 0.000014045 49 100%
1985 29 0.000008125 29 100%
1986 31 0.000008715 31 100%
1987 41 0.000011371 41 100%
1988 90 0.000024357 90 100%
1989 60 0.000015607 60 100%
1990 60 0.00001518 60 100%
1991 48 0.000012323 48 100%
1992 48 0.000012496 48 100%
1993 52 0.000013792 52 100%
1994 60 0.000016139 60 100%
1995 55 0.000015018 55 100%
1996 69 0.000018919 69 100%
1997 74 0.00002041 74 100%
1998 83 0.000022565 83 100%
1999 80 0.000021658 80 100%
2000 68 0.00001799 68 100%
2001 90 0.000024042 90 100%
2002 98 0.000026215 98 100%
2003 127 0.000033401 127 100%
2004 143 0.000037426 143 100%
2005 166 0.000043175 160 6 93%
2006 182 0.000046004 176 6 93%
2007 224 0.000056032 224 100%
2008 201 0.000051136 201 100%
2009 311 0.00008141 311 100%
2010 338 0.000091457 326 12 93%
2011 433 0.000118377 424 9 96%
2012 522 0.000142726 508 14 95%
2013 531 0.000145652 522 9 97%
2014 751 0.000202624 741 10 97%
2015 919 0.000248317 902 17 96%
2016 1043 0.000284297 1020 23 96%
2017 1148 0.000321012 1122 26 95%
2018 1498 0.000426065 1474 24 97%
2019 1568 0.000451752 1541 27 97%
2020 1570 0.000469979 1537 33 96%
2021 1831 0.000540445 1774 57 94%
2022 1869 0.000552446 1833 36 96%
2023 1745 0.000527 1703 42 95%
2024 2210 0.000663963 2172 38 97%

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