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How popular is “Emmerson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Emmerson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Emmerson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Emmerson” 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
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 -100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1929 15 0.000006843 15 -100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 -100%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 100%
2001 19 0.000005076 19 100%
2002 33 0.000008828 33 100%
2003 39 0.000010257 39 100%
2004 36 0.000009422 29 7 61%
2005 76 0.000019767 65 11 71%
2006 119 0.000030079 110 9 85%
2007 116 0.000029017 106 10 83%
2008 143 0.000036381 129 14 80%
2009 150 0.000039265 136 14 81%
2010 131 0.000035446 122 9 86%
2011 129 0.000035267 108 21 67%
2012 145 0.000039646 136 9 88%
2013 193 0.00005294 171 22 77%
2014 188 0.000050723 158 30 68%
2015 184 0.000049717 154 30 67%
2016 157 0.000042794 128 29 63%
2017 149 0.000041664 123 26 65%
2018 130 0.000036975 102 28 57%
2019 130 0.000037454 105 25 62%
2020 125 0.000037419 95 30 52%
2021 110 0.000032468 85 25 55%
2022 102 0.00003015 75 27 47%
2023 88 0.000026576 74 14 68%
2024 95 0.000028541 65 30 37%

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