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How popular is “Emil” in the USA?

Number of people named “Emil” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Emil” by birth year

This chart shows how “Emil” 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 119 0.000590618 119 -100%
1881 145 0.000752512 145 -100%
1882 157 0.000708698 157 -100%
1883 139 0.000640712 139 -100%
1884 175 0.000718801 175 -100%
1885 138 0.000572961 138 -100%
1886 127 0.000497423 127 -100%
1887 146 0.000590157 146 -100%
1888 142 0.000474165 142 -100%
1889 146 0.000505285 146 -100%
1890 165 0.000547443 165 -100%
1891 133 0.000463943 133 -100%
1892 157 0.000469534 157 -100%
1893 159 0.000488895 159 -100%
1894 128 0.000377927 128 -100%
1895 136 0.000387442 136 -100%
1896 148 0.000414005 5 143 -93%
1897 131 0.000377568 131 -100%
1898 158 0.000414204 158 -100%
1899 128 0.000377321 128 -100%
1900 127 0.000282061 127 -100%
1901 122 0.000352793 122 -100%
1902 136 0.000351664 136 -100%
1903 128 0.000335782 128 -100%
1904 101 0.000250319 101 -100%
1905 122 0.000287789 122 -100%
1906 139 0.000324425 139 -100%
1907 150 0.00032231 150 -100%
1908 141 0.000288551 141 -100%
1909 153 0.000299282 153 -100%
1910 194 0.000328418 194 -100%
1911 214 0.000332155 214 -100%
1912 407 0.000411917 407 -100%
1913 557 0.000489838 6 551 -98%
1914 689 0.000486464 5 684 -99%
1915 926 0.000505341 8 918 -98%
1916 970 0.000501443 970 -100%
1917 1012 0.000504298 8 1004 -98%
1918 912 0.000420061 912 -100%
1919 854 0.000404692 7 847 -98%
1920 842 0.000372131 7 835 -98%
1921 827 0.000354251 8 819 -98%
1922 830 0.000362579 6 824 -99%
1923 804 0.000349189 6 798 -99%
1924 796 0.000334228 6 790 -98%
1925 730 0.000312861 8 722 -98%
1926 688 0.000299664 6 682 -98%
1927 627 0.000270333 7 620 -98%
1928 589 0.000260511 7 582 -98%
1929 505 0.000230366 7 498 -97%
1930 514 0.000231189 5 509 -98%
1931 454 0.00021574 7 447 -97%
1932 392 0.000185668 392 -100%
1933 370 0.000185051 370 -100%
1934 335 0.000161305 335 -100%
1935 325 0.00015551 5 320 -97%
1936 273 0.000131403 273 -100%
1937 275 0.000129067 275 -100%
1938 327 0.000147792 5 322 -97%
1939 275 0.000124805 275 -100%
1940 263 0.000114214 263 -100%
1941 297 0.0001219 297 -100%
1942 259 0.000094809 259 -100%
1943 262 0.000092824 262 -100%
1944 222 0.000082525 222 -100%
1945 223 0.000084059 223 -100%
1946 246 0.000076988 246 -100%
1947 258 0.00007162 258 -100%
1948 251 0.000072701 251 -100%
1949 217 0.000062271 217 -100%
1950 206 0.000058801 206 -100%
1951 215 0.000058365 215 -100%
1952 205 0.000053976 205 -100%
1953 184 0.000047747 184 -100%
1954 179 0.000044967 179 -100%
1955 179 0.000044582 179 -100%
1956 173 0.000041959 173 -100%
1957 188 0.000044739 188 -100%
1958 170 0.000041123 170 -100%
1959 161 0.000038721 161 -100%
1960 166 0.000039963 5 161 -94%
1961 148 0.000035729 148 -100%
1962 147 0.000036428 147 -100%
1963 125 0.00003158 125 -100%
1964 132 0.000033954 132 -100%
1965 147 0.000040547 147 -100%
1966 99 0.000028484 99 -100%
1967 102 0.000030045 102 -100%
1968 97 0.000028712 97 -100%
1969 109 0.000031364 109 -100%
1970 124 0.000034382 124 -100%
1971 101 0.000029426 101 -100%
1972 92 0.000029271 92 -100%
1973 102 0.00003381 102 -100%
1974 92 0.000030263 92 -100%
1975 98 0.000032457 98 -100%
1976 89 0.000029331 89 -100%
1977 82 0.000025815 82 -100%
1978 89 0.000028041 89 -100%
1979 94 0.000028254 94 -100%
1980 89 0.000025838 89 -100%
1981 77 0.000022258 77 -100%
1982 82 0.000023375 82 -100%
1983 98 0.000028296 98 -100%
1984 84 0.000024077 84 -100%
1985 79 0.000022134 79 -100%
1986 62 0.00001743 62 -100%
1987 89 0.000024684 89 -100%
1988 73 0.000019756 73 -100%
1989 76 0.000019769 76 -100%
1990 82 0.000020746 82 -100%
1991 91 0.000023362 91 -100%
1992 104 0.000027074 104 -100%
1993 71 0.000018831 71 -100%
1994 95 0.000025554 95 -100%
1995 90 0.000024576 90 -100%
1996 73 0.000020015 73 -100%
1997 63 0.000017376 63 -100%
1998 69 0.000018759 69 -100%
1999 99 0.000026801 99 -100%
2000 89 0.000023546 89 -100%
2001 109 0.000029118 109 -100%
2002 97 0.000025948 97 -100%
2003 86 0.000022618 86 -100%
2004 79 0.000020676 79 -100%
2005 92 0.000023928 92 -100%
2006 101 0.00002553 101 -100%
2007 113 0.000028266 113 -100%
2008 134 0.000034091 134 -100%
2009 147 0.00003848 147 -100%
2010 106 0.000028682 106 -100%
2011 106 0.000028979 106 -100%
2012 114 0.00003117 114 -100%
2013 115 0.000031544 115 -100%
2014 120 0.000032377 120 -100%
2015 127 0.000034316 127 -100%
2016 125 0.000034072 125 -100%
2017 144 0.000040266 144 -100%
2018 129 0.00003669 129 -100%
2019 155 0.000044657 155 -100%
2020 152 0.000045501 152 -100%
2021 152 0.000044865 152 -100%
2022 188 0.00005557 188 -100%
2023 187 0.000056475 187 -100%
2024 158 0.000047469 158 -100%

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