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How popular is “Erna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Erna” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Erna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Erna” 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 10 0.000049632 10 100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 100%
1882 12 0.000054168 12 100%
1883 14 0.000064532 14 100%
1884 23 0.000094471 23 100%
1885 15 0.000062278 15 100%
1886 18 0.000070501 18 100%
1887 28 0.000113181 28 100%
1888 34 0.000113532 34 100%
1889 42 0.000145356 42 100%
1890 71 0.000235567 71 100%
1891 57 0.000198833 57 100%
1892 64 0.000191402 64 100%
1893 78 0.000239835 78 100%
1894 83 0.000245062 83 100%
1895 103 0.000293431 103 100%
1896 85 0.000237773 85 100%
1897 97 0.000279574 97 100%
1898 135 0.000353908 135 100%
1899 106 0.000312469 106 100%
1900 115 0.000255409 115 100%
1901 87 0.000251582 87 100%
1902 94 0.000243062 94 100%
1903 99 0.000259706 99 100%
1904 102 0.000252798 102 100%
1905 117 0.000275994 117 100%
1906 119 0.000277745 119 100%
1907 94 0.000201981 94 100%
1908 107 0.000218971 107 100%
1909 116 0.000226906 111 5 91%
1910 120 0.000203145 120 100%
1911 130 0.000201776 130 100%
1912 172 0.000174078 172 100%
1913 220 0.000193473 220 100%
1914 233 0.000164508 233 100%
1915 310 0.000169175 310 100%
1916 358 0.000185069 358 100%
1917 331 0.000164943 331 100%
1918 321 0.000147851 321 100%
1919 270 0.000127947 270 100%
1920 258 0.000114026 258 100%
1921 264 0.000113086 258 6 95%
1922 210 0.000091737 210 100%
1923 216 0.000093812 216 100%
1924 202 0.000084817 202 100%
1925 191 0.000081858 191 100%
1926 182 0.000079272 182 100%
1927 194 0.000083644 194 100%
1928 160 0.000070767 160 100%
1929 164 0.000074812 164 100%
1930 133 0.000059821 133 100%
1931 127 0.00006035 127 100%
1932 123 0.000058258 123 100%
1933 101 0.000050514 101 100%
1934 114 0.000054892 114 100%
1935 96 0.000045935 96 100%
1936 97 0.000046689 97 100%
1937 102 0.000047872 102 100%
1938 68 0.000030733 68 100%
1939 86 0.00003903 86 100%
1940 82 0.000035611 82 100%
1941 54 0.000022164 54 100%
1942 79 0.000028918 79 100%
1943 48 0.000017006 48 100%
1944 48 0.000017843 48 100%
1945 56 0.000021109 56 100%
1946 56 0.000017526 56 100%
1947 48 0.000013325 48 100%
1948 54 0.000015641 54 100%
1949 65 0.000018653 65 100%
1950 41 0.000011703 41 100%
1951 42 0.000011401 42 100%
1952 54 0.000014218 54 100%
1953 39 0.00001012 39 100%
1954 39 0.000009797 39 100%
1955 44 0.000010959 44 100%
1956 36 0.000008731 36 100%
1957 33 0.000007853 33 100%
1958 31 0.000007499 31 100%
1959 20 0.00000481 20 100%
1960 26 0.000006259 26 100%
1961 27 0.000006518 27 100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 100%
1963 17 0.000004295 17 100%
1964 19 0.000004887 19 100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 18 0.000005302 18 100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 100%
1969 20 0.000005755 20 100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1971 12 0.000003496 12 100%
1972 14 0.000004454 14 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%

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