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How popular is “Emerson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Emerson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Emerson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Emerson” 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 25 0.000124079 25 -100%
1881 20 0.000103795 20 -100%
1882 15 0.00006771 15 -100%
1883 20 0.000092189 20 -100%
1884 15 0.000061612 15 -100%
1885 17 0.000070582 17 -100%
1886 17 0.000066584 17 -100%
1887 16 0.000064675 16 -100%
1888 18 0.000060105 18 -100%
1889 22 0.000076139 22 -100%
1890 13 0.000043132 13 -100%
1891 21 0.000073254 21 -100%
1892 19 0.000056823 19 -100%
1893 20 0.000061496 20 -100%
1894 23 0.000067909 23 -100%
1895 21 0.000059826 21 -100%
1896 20 0.000055947 20 -100%
1897 13 0.000037469 13 -100%
1898 25 0.000065539 25 -100%
1899 19 0.000056009 19 -100%
1900 34 0.000075512 34 -100%
1901 25 0.000072294 25 -100%
1902 28 0.000072401 28 -100%
1903 26 0.000068206 26 -100%
1904 30 0.000074352 30 -100%
1905 36 0.000084921 36 -100%
1906 28 0.000065352 28 -100%
1907 41 0.000088098 41 -100%
1908 32 0.000065487 32 -100%
1909 41 0.0000802 41 -100%
1910 52 0.00008803 52 -100%
1911 59 0.000091575 59 -100%
1912 142 0.000143716 142 -100%
1913 114 0.000100254 114 -100%
1914 164 0.000115791 164 -100%
1915 229 0.000124971 229 -100%
1916 225 0.000116314 225 -100%
1917 229 0.000114115 229 -100%
1918 273 0.000125742 273 -100%
1919 264 0.000125104 264 -100%
1920 259 0.000114468 259 -100%
1921 236 0.000101092 236 -100%
1922 254 0.000110958 254 -100%
1923 222 0.000096418 222 -100%
1924 249 0.000104551 249 -100%
1925 231 0.000099001 231 -100%
1926 187 0.000081449 187 -100%
1927 186 0.000080195 186 -100%
1928 188 0.000083151 188 -100%
1929 127 0.000057934 127 -100%
1930 171 0.000076913 171 -100%
1931 124 0.000058924 124 -100%
1932 141 0.000066784 141 -100%
1933 121 0.000060517 121 -100%
1934 130 0.000062596 130 -100%
1935 110 0.000052634 110 -100%
1936 108 0.000051984 108 -100%
1937 116 0.000054443 116 -100%
1938 121 0.000054687 121 -100%
1939 96 0.000043568 96 -100%
1940 125 0.000054284 125 -100%
1941 113 0.000046379 113 -100%
1942 116 0.000042463 116 -100%
1943 115 0.000040743 115 -100%
1944 103 0.000038289 103 -100%
1945 82 0.000030909 82 -100%
1946 97 0.000030357 97 -100%
1947 116 0.000032201 116 -100%
1948 109 0.000031571 109 -100%
1949 117 0.000033575 117 -100%
1950 102 0.000029115 102 -100%
1951 112 0.000030404 112 -100%
1952 88 0.00002317 88 -100%
1953 101 0.000026209 101 -100%
1954 117 0.000029392 117 -100%
1955 79 0.000019676 79 -100%
1956 88 0.000021343 88 -100%
1957 93 0.000022132 93 -100%
1958 79 0.00001911 79 -100%
1959 87 0.000020924 87 -100%
1960 89 0.000021426 89 -100%
1961 74 0.000017864 74 -100%
1962 89 0.000022055 89 -100%
1963 89 0.000022485 89 -100%
1964 88 0.000022636 88 -100%
1965 74 0.000020411 74 -100%
1966 67 0.000019277 67 -100%
1967 68 0.00002003 68 -100%
1968 64 0.000018944 64 -100%
1969 57 0.000016401 57 -100%
1970 70 0.000019409 70 -100%
1971 63 0.000018355 63 -100%
1972 66 0.000020999 66 -100%
1973 66 0.000021877 66 -100%
1974 56 0.000018421 56 -100%
1975 66 0.000021859 66 -100%
1976 78 0.000025706 78 -100%
1977 68 0.000021407 68 -100%
1978 73 0.000023 73 -100%
1979 74 0.000022242 74 -100%
1980 67 0.000019451 67 -100%
1981 72 0.000020813 72 -100%
1982 75 0.00002138 75 -100%
1983 76 0.000021944 76 -100%
1984 89 0.000025511 89 -100%
1985 87 0.000024376 87 -100%
1986 100 0.000028113 100 -100%
1987 86 0.000023852 86 -100%
1988 95 0.00002571 95 -100%
1989 111 0.000028873 111 -100%
1990 130 0.000032891 130 -100%
1991 106 0.000027213 106 -100%
1992 119 0.000030979 119 -100%
1993 141 0.000037398 11 130 -84%
1994 126 0.000033892 14 112 -78%
1995 155 0.000042325 16 139 -79%
1996 143 0.000039208 16 127 -78%
1997 139 0.000038337 20 119 -71%
1998 313 0.000085096 146 167 -7%
1999 311 0.000084194 143 168 -8%
2000 306 0.000080954 136 170 -11%
2001 408 0.000108992 183 225 -10%
2002 503 0.000134553 280 223 11%
2003 588 0.000154642 324 264 10%
2004 535 0.000140019 268 267 0%
2005 1070 0.000278295 683 387 28%
2006 1538 0.000388758 1069 469 39%
2007 1617 0.000404484 1080 537 34%
2008 1749 0.000444963 1164 585 33%
2009 1656 0.000433488 1017 639 23%
2010 1646 0.000445378 1010 636 23%
2011 1888 0.000516158 1151 737 22%
2012 2150 0.000587855 1312 838 22%
2013 2503 0.000686568 1524 979 22%
2014 2738 0.000738727 1683 1055 23%
2015 3001 0.000810881 1798 1203 20%
2016 3188 0.000868973 1962 1226 23%
2017 3299 0.000922489 1978 1321 20%
2018 3190 0.000907308 1948 1242 22%
2019 3208 0.000924247 1865 1343 16%
2020 3069 0.000918704 1793 1276 17%
2021 2980 0.000879588 1743 1237 17%
2022 2992 0.000884387 1724 1268 15%
2023 3031 0.000915379 1771 1260 17%
2024 3235 0.000971909 1965 1270 21%

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