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How popular is “Erickson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Erickson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Erickson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Erickson” 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
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 -100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 -100%
1978 12 0.000003781 12 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 -100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 -100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 -100%
1985 12 0.000003362 12 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 22 0.000006102 22 -100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 -100%
1989 23 0.000005983 23 -100%
1990 21 0.000005313 21 -100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 -100%
1992 19 0.000004946 19 -100%
1993 28 0.000007427 28 -100%
1994 14 0.000003766 14 -100%
1995 23 0.00000628 23 -100%
1996 25 0.000006855 25 -100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 -100%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 18 0.000004873 18 -100%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 -100%
2001 28 0.00000748 28 -100%
2002 17 0.000004548 17 -100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 -100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 -100%
2005 24 0.000006242 24 -100%
2006 20 0.000005055 20 -100%
2007 24 0.000006003 24 -100%
2008 50 0.00001272 50 -100%
2009 32 0.000008377 32 -100%
2010 35 0.00000947 35 -100%
2011 42 0.000011482 42 -100%
2012 22 0.000006015 22 -100%
2013 42 0.000011521 42 -100%
2014 27 0.000007285 27 -100%
2015 28 0.000007566 28 -100%
2016 39 0.00001063 39 -100%
2017 31 0.000008668 31 -100%
2018 33 0.000009386 33 -100%
2019 28 0.000008067 28 -100%
2020 26 0.000007783 26 -100%
2021 30 0.000008855 30 -100%
2022 39 0.000011528 39 -100%
2023 28 0.000008456 28 -100%
2024 35 0.000010515 35 -100%

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