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How popular is “Ernesto” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ernesto” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ernesto” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ernesto” 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
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 -100%
1909 14 0.000027385 14 -100%
1910 12 0.000020315 12 -100%
1911 18 0.000027938 18 -100%
1912 29 0.00002935 29 -100%
1913 34 0.0000299 34 -100%
1914 36 0.000025418 36 -100%
1915 49 0.000026741 49 -100%
1916 57 0.000029466 57 -100%
1917 60 0.000029899 60 -100%
1918 61 0.000028096 61 -100%
1919 95 0.000045018 95 -100%
1920 77 0.000034031 77 -100%
1921 105 0.000044977 105 -100%
1922 105 0.000045868 105 -100%
1923 131 0.000056895 131 -100%
1924 129 0.000054165 129 -100%
1925 119 0.000051001 119 -100%
1926 138 0.000060107 138 -100%
1927 119 0.000051307 119 -100%
1928 143 0.000063248 143 -100%
1929 146 0.000066601 146 -100%
1930 168 0.000075564 168 -100%
1931 142 0.000067478 142 -100%
1932 126 0.000059679 126 -100%
1933 114 0.000057016 114 -100%
1934 146 0.0000703 146 -100%
1935 130 0.000062204 130 -100%
1936 139 0.000066905 139 -100%
1937 103 0.000048342 103 -100%
1938 117 0.00005288 117 -100%
1939 141 0.000063991 141 -100%
1940 122 0.000052982 122 -100%
1941 124 0.000050894 124 -100%
1942 164 0.000060033 164 -100%
1943 146 0.000051726 146 -100%
1944 160 0.000059478 160 -100%
1945 179 0.000067473 179 -100%
1946 194 0.000060714 194 -100%
1947 202 0.000056075 202 -100%
1948 240 0.000069514 240 -100%
1949 263 0.000075471 263 -100%
1950 278 0.000079352 278 -100%
1951 243 0.000065966 243 -100%
1952 269 0.000070827 269 -100%
1953 261 0.000067728 261 -100%
1954 234 0.000058784 234 -100%
1955 264 0.000065752 264 -100%
1956 317 0.000076885 317 -100%
1957 338 0.000080435 338 -100%
1958 320 0.000077409 320 -100%
1959 336 0.000080808 336 -100%
1960 356 0.000085704 356 -100%
1961 284 0.000068561 284 -100%
1962 367 0.000090946 367 -100%
1963 372 0.000093982 6 366 -97%
1964 382 0.000098261 5 377 -97%
1965 357 0.000098471 357 -100%
1966 354 0.000101851 354 -100%
1967 345 0.000101623 345 -100%
1968 406 0.000120175 406 -100%
1969 392 0.000112795 392 -100%
1970 458 0.000126992 5 453 -98%
1971 503 0.000146547 503 -100%
1972 456 0.000145085 7 449 -97%
1973 463 0.000153469 463 -100%
1974 490 0.000161184 7 483 -97%
1975 508 0.000168246 5 503 -98%
1976 562 0.000185216 5 557 -98%
1977 555 0.000174721 6 549 -98%
1978 563 0.000177386 563 -100%
1979 556 0.000167118 556 -100%
1980 645 0.000187255 645 -100%
1981 692 0.000200036 692 -100%
1982 645 0.000183867 5 640 -98%
1983 646 0.000186525 5 641 -98%
1984 616 0.000176567 7 609 -98%
1985 640 0.000179316 10 630 -97%
1986 645 0.000181329 7 638 -98%
1987 623 0.000172786 623 -100%
1988 758 0.00020514 758 -100%
1989 786 0.000204451 7 779 -98%
1990 831 0.000210248 9 822 -98%
1991 826 0.000212052 5 821 -99%
1992 853 0.000222062 6 847 -99%
1993 814 0.000215899 814 -100%
1994 826 0.000222183 9 817 -98%
1995 777 0.00021217 777 -100%
1996 774 0.000212218 774 -100%
1997 797 0.000219817 797 -100%
1998 807 0.0002194 807 -100%
1999 835 0.00022605 835 -100%
2000 792 0.000209529 792 -100%
2001 848 0.000226533 848 -100%
2002 853 0.000228179 853 -100%
2003 854 0.0002246 854 -100%
2004 818 0.000214084 818 -100%
2005 804 0.000209111 804 -100%
2006 798 0.000201709 5 793 -99%
2007 730 0.000182606 730 -100%
2008 721 0.00018343 721 -100%
2009 588 0.00015392 588 -100%
2010 529 0.000143138 529 -100%
2011 531 0.00014517 531 -100%
2012 478 0.000130695 478 -100%
2013 392 0.000107525 392 -100%
2014 405 0.000109271 405 -100%
2015 414 0.000111864 414 -100%
2016 363 0.000098945 363 -100%
2017 346 0.000096751 346 -100%
2018 330 0.000093859 330 -100%
2019 304 0.000087585 304 -100%
2020 293 0.000087709 293 -100%
2021 257 0.000075857 257 -100%
2022 279 0.000082468 279 -100%
2023 271 0.000081844 271 -100%
2024 262 0.000078714 262 -100%

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