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How popular is “Erin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Erin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Erin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Erin” 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
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 100%
1890 9 0.000029861 9 100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 100%
1897 10 0.000028822 10 100%
1898 11 0.000028837 11 100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 100%
1903 10 0.000026233 10 100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 100%
1909 15 0.000029341 15 100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 100%
1912 14 0.000014169 14 100%
1913 20 0.000017588 20 100%
1914 21 0.000014827 21 100%
1915 35 0.0000191 29 6 66%
1916 26 0.000013441 26 100%
1917 30 0.00001495 30 100%
1918 29 0.000013357 23 6 59%
1919 28 0.000013269 28 100%
1920 31 0.000013701 25 6 61%
1921 35 0.000014992 29 6 66%
1922 16 0.000006989 16 100%
1923 34 0.000014767 34 100%
1924 25 0.000010497 19 6 52%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 100%
1927 15 0.000006467 15 100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 100%
1932 16 0.000007578 16 100%
1933 18 0.000009002 18 100%
1934 22 0.000010593 22 100%
1935 20 0.00000957 20 100%
1936 18 0.000008664 18 100%
1937 26 0.000012203 26 100%
1938 41 0.00001853 35 6 71%
1939 31 0.000014069 25 6 61%
1940 32 0.000013897 27 5 69%
1941 51 0.000020932 40 11 57%
1942 47 0.000017205 42 5 79%
1943 45 0.000015943 45 100%
1944 56 0.000020817 50 6 79%
1945 49 0.00001847 49 100%
1946 74 0.000023159 67 7 81%
1947 88 0.000024429 81 7 84%
1948 64 0.000018537 59 5 84%
1949 81 0.000023244 76 5 88%
1950 90 0.00002569 77 13 71%
1951 105 0.000028504 97 8 85%
1952 105 0.000027646 88 17 68%
1953 100 0.000025949 86 14 72%
1954 185 0.000046474 175 10 89%
1955 186 0.000046325 175 11 88%
1956 326 0.000079068 305 21 87%
1957 1052 0.000250348 1014 38 93%
1958 1173 0.000283751 1136 37 94%
1959 1269 0.000305195 1229 40 94%
1960 1207 0.000290576 1155 52 91%
1961 1171 0.000282693 1133 38 94%
1962 1114 0.000276059 1062 52 91%
1963 1259 0.000318074 1201 58 91%
1964 1500 0.000385842 1426 74 90%
1965 1553 0.000428361 1463 90 88%
1966 1622 0.000466675 1523 99 88%
1967 1793 0.000528146 1685 108 88%
1968 2022 0.000598506 1864 158 84%
1969 3278 0.000943222 3059 219 87%
1970 3742 0.001037567 3480 262 86%
1971 4175 0.001216366 3856 319 85%
1972 3577 0.001138087 3289 288 84%
1973 4182 0.001386197 3877 305 85%
1974 6189 0.002035856 5868 321 90%
1975 7213 0.00238889 6894 319 91%
1976 8678 0.002859968 8383 295 93%
1977 10446 0.003288531 10198 248 95%
1978 11046 0.003480294 10787 259 95%
1979 11524 0.003463781 11259 265 95%
1980 13692 0.003975026 13428 264 96%
1981 14095 0.004074435 13853 242 97%
1982 14608 0.004164241 14362 246 97%
1983 15051 0.004345806 14837 214 97%
1984 12814 0.003672943 12622 192 97%
1985 11599 0.00324983 11384 215 96%
1986 10269 0.00288692 10068 201 96%
1987 9039 0.002506924 8847 192 96%
1988 8470 0.00229226 8267 203 95%
1989 8376 0.002178727 8143 233 94%
1990 8226 0.002081226 7988 238 94%
1991 7382 0.001895121 7208 174 95%
1992 7231 0.001882449 7059 172 95%
1993 6885 0.001826125 6717 168 95%
1994 7077 0.00190362 6908 169 95%
1995 6776 0.001850277 6565 211 94%
1996 6399 0.001754499 6256 143 96%
1997 6064 0.001672482 5939 125 96%
1998 5585 0.001518403 5471 114 96%
1999 5344 0.001446722 5223 121 95%
2000 5282 0.00139739 5184 98 96%
2001 5066 0.001353319 4958 108 96%
2002 4242 0.001134743 4145 97 95%
2003 4014 0.001055672 3926 88 96%
2004 3456 0.000904493 3367 89 95%
2005 2976 0.000774023 2907 69 95%
2006 2717 0.000686772 2644 73 95%
2007 2548 0.000637369 2477 71 94%
2008 2130 0.000541893 2064 66 94%
2009 1763 0.000461497 1696 67 92%
2010 1498 0.000405332 1441 57 92%
2011 1404 0.000383838 1350 54 92%
2012 1297 0.000354627 1235 62 90%
2013 1214 0.000332998 1168 46 92%
2014 1073 0.000289501 1022 51 90%
2015 1033 0.00027912 974 59 89%
2016 966 0.000263309 925 41 92%
2017 830 0.00023209 777 53 87%
2018 780 0.00022185 743 37 91%
2019 684 0.000197065 650 34 90%
2020 621 0.000185896 581 40 87%
2021 564 0.000166472 527 37 87%
2022 453 0.000133899 427 26 89%
2023 483 0.000145869 450 33 86%
2024 383 0.000115067 352 31 84%

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