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How popular is “Erma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Erma” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Erma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Erma” 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 30 0.000148895 30 100%
1881 28 0.000145313 28 100%
1882 31 0.000139934 31 100%
1883 38 0.000175159 38 100%
1884 53 0.000217694 53 100%
1885 55 0.000228354 55 100%
1886 64 0.00025067 64 100%
1887 62 0.000250614 62 100%
1888 83 0.000277153 83 100%
1889 96 0.000332242 96 100%
1890 135 0.000447908 135 100%
1891 139 0.000484873 139 100%
1892 160 0.000478506 160 100%
1893 155 0.000476596 155 100%
1894 211 0.000622989 211 100%
1895 203 0.000578315 203 100%
1896 192 0.000537087 192 100%
1897 213 0.000613909 213 100%
1898 240 0.00062917 240 100%
1899 247 0.000728111 247 100%
1900 275 0.000610761 275 100%
1901 236 0.000682452 236 100%
1902 288 0.0007447 288 100%
1903 302 0.000792235 302 100%
1904 345 0.00085505 345 100%
1905 330 0.000778445 330 100%
1906 444 0.001036291 444 100%
1907 439 0.000943295 439 100%
1908 477 0.000976161 477 100%
1909 487 0.000952616 487 100%
1910 583 0.000986946 577 6 98%
1911 600 0.000931275 595 5 98%
1912 781 0.000790436 774 7 98%
1913 872 0.000766856 865 7 98%
1914 999 0.000705337 993 6 99%
1915 1384 0.000755283 1375 9 99%
1916 1386 0.000716495 1378 8 99%
1917 1436 0.000715585 1436 100%
1918 1472 0.000677994 1463 9 99%
1919 1502 0.000711766 1497 5 99%
1920 1541 0.000681062 1529 12 98%
1921 1536 0.000657955 1525 11 99%
1922 1419 0.000619879 1411 8 99%
1923 1395 0.000605868 1389 6 99%
1924 1433 0.000601694 1424 9 99%
1925 1499 0.000642437 1490 9 99%
1926 1485 0.000646804 1485 100%
1927 1386 0.000597579 1379 7 99%
1928 1387 0.000613462 1382 5 99%
1929 1246 0.000568389 1246 100%
1930 1218 0.000547837 1207 11 98%
1931 1156 0.000549328 1151 5 99%
1932 1179 0.000558426 1167 12 98%
1933 993 0.000496637 985 8 98%
1934 1015 0.000488729 1008 7 99%
1935 943 0.000451218 930 13 97%
1936 848 0.000408168 842 6 99%
1937 833 0.000390957 833 100%
1938 791 0.000357502 786 5 99%
1939 802 0.000363976 792 10 98%
1940 741 0.000321798 741 100%
1941 727 0.000298388 727 100%
1942 761 0.000278569 754 7 98%
1943 719 0.000254733 719 100%
1944 649 0.000241257 640 9 97%
1945 601 0.000226544 601 100%
1946 603 0.000188714 603 100%
1947 608 0.00016878 608 100%
1948 622 0.000180158 616 6 98%
1949 551 0.000158116 546 5 98%
1950 544 0.00015528 544 100%
1951 495 0.000134374 490 5 98%
1952 457 0.000120326 457 100%
1953 419 0.000108728 419 100%
1954 412 0.000103499 412 100%
1955 356 0.000088666 356 100%
1956 308 0.000074702 308 100%
1957 358 0.000085195 358 100%
1958 303 0.000073296 303 100%
1959 269 0.000064695 269 100%
1960 242 0.00005826 242 100%
1961 243 0.000058663 243 100%
1962 216 0.000053527 216 100%
1963 184 0.000046486 184 100%
1964 220 0.00005659 220 100%
1965 151 0.00004165 151 100%
1966 146 0.000042006 146 100%
1967 94 0.000027689 94 100%
1968 116 0.000034336 116 100%
1969 107 0.000030789 107 100%
1970 83 0.000023014 83 100%
1971 79 0.000023016 79 100%
1972 86 0.000027362 86 100%
1973 66 0.000021877 66 100%
1974 59 0.000019408 59 100%
1975 69 0.000022852 69 100%
1976 56 0.000018456 56 100%
1977 49 0.000015426 49 100%
1978 48 0.000015123 48 100%
1979 44 0.000013225 44 100%
1980 53 0.000015387 53 100%
1981 43 0.00001243 43 100%
1982 42 0.000011973 42 100%
1983 37 0.000010683 37 100%
1984 35 0.000010032 35 100%
1985 37 0.000010367 37 100%
1986 40 0.000011245 40 100%
1987 38 0.000010539 38 100%
1988 30 0.000008119 30 100%
1989 30 0.000007803 30 100%
1990 27 0.000006831 27 100%
1991 30 0.000007702 30 100%
1992 24 0.000006248 24 100%
1993 33 0.000008753 33 100%
1994 24 0.000006456 24 100%
1995 19 0.000005188 19 100%
1996 22 0.000006032 22 100%
1997 22 0.000006068 22 100%
1998 19 0.000005166 19 100%
1999 15 0.000004061 15 100%
2000 23 0.000006085 23 100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 100%
2002 24 0.00000642 24 100%
2003 25 0.000006575 25 100%
2004 26 0.000006805 26 100%
2005 20 0.000005202 20 100%
2006 26 0.000006572 26 100%
2007 26 0.000006504 26 100%
2008 26 0.000006615 26 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 100%
2014 21 0.000005666 21 100%
2015 25 0.000006755 25 100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 100%
2017 21 0.000005872 21 100%
2018 12 0.000003413 12 100%
2019 21 0.00000605 21 100%
2020 20 0.000005987 20 100%
2021 23 0.000006789 23 100%
2022 20 0.000005912 20 100%
2023 22 0.000006644 22 100%
2024 14 0.000004206 14 100%

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