How popular is “Esther” in the USA?

Number of people named “Esther” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Esther” by birth year

This chart shows how “Esther” 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	198	0.000982708	198		100%
1881	189	0.00098086	189		100%
1882	266	0.001200724	266		100%
1883	260	0.001198455	260		100%
1884	291	0.001195263	291		100%
1885	320	0.001328606	320		100%
1886	396	0.001551019	396		100%
1887	431	0.001742174	431		100%
1888	572	0.001910016	572		100%
1889	553	0.001913852	553		100%
1890	625	0.002073649	619	6	98%
1891	710	0.002476689	710		100%
1892	829	0.00247926	824	5	99%
1893	1387	0.004264766	1382	5	99%
1894	1661	0.00490419	1654	7	99%
1895	1819	0.005182041	1803	16	98%
1896	1970	0.005510736	1964	6	99%
1897	1918	0.005528063	1911	7	99%
1898	2054	0.005384645	2047	7	99%
1899	1823	0.005373872	1823		100%
1900	2023	0.004492979	2017	6	99%
1901	1854	0.005361294	1844	10	99%
1902	1833	0.004739704	1833		100%
1903	1889	0.004955404	1883	6	99%
1904	1962	0.004862634	1957	5	99%
1905	2003	0.004724926	1993	10	99%
1906	2070	0.004831357	2065	5	100%
1907	2072	0.00445218	2062	10	99%
1908	2195	0.004491977	2187	8	99%
1909	2196	0.004295573	2185	11	99%
1910	2389	0.004044279	2378	11	99%
1911	2689	0.004173664	2676	13	99%
1912	3586	0.003629327	3569	17	99%
1913	4100	0.003605632	4090	10	100%
1914	4668	0.003295809	4654	14	99%
1915	6337	0.003458257	6321	16	99%
1916	6447	0.003332787	6421	26	99%
1917	6298	0.003138408	6281	17	99%
1918	6588	0.003034391	6574	14	100%
1919	6265	0.00296885	6248	17	99%
1920	6085	0.002689333	6068	17	99%
1921	5938	0.00254358	5926	12	100%
1922	5495	0.002400448	5474	21	99%
1923	5328	0.002314026	5315	13	100%
1924	5273	0.002214049	5258	15	99%
1925	4746	0.002034027	4726	20	99%
1926	4474	0.001948687	4454	20	99%
1927	4350	0.001875519	4327	23	99%
1928	4125	0.001824464	4096	29	99%
1929	3606	0.001644952	3586	20	99%
1930	3372	0.001516673	3350	22	99%
1931	3059	0.001453629	3034	25	98%
1932	2978	0.001410511	2959	19	99%
1933	2703	0.001351874	2676	27	98%
1934	2597	0.001250472	2578	19	99%
1935	2562	0.001225896	2543	19	99%
1936	2268	0.001091656	2253	15	99%
1937	2169	0.00101799	2156	13	99%
1938	2154	0.000973527	2132	22	98%
1939	2125	0.0009644	2110	15	99%
1940	1915	0.000831638	1900	15	98%
1941	1826	0.000749459	1810	16	98%
1942	1843	0.000674642	1832	11	99%
1943	1768	0.000626382	1758	10	99%
1944	1623	0.000603328	1612	11	99%
1945	1472	0.000554862	1467	5	99%
1946	1785	0.000558632	1778	7	99%
1947	1851	0.000513835	1842	9	99%
1948	1847	0.000534972	1847		100%
1949	1801	0.000516819	1793	8	99%
1950	1748	0.00049895	1740	8	99%
1951	1808	0.000490806	1808		100%
1952	1712	0.000450763	1712		100%
1953	1620	0.000420381	1613	7	99%
1954	1633	0.000410229	1633		100%
1955	1574	0.000392022	1569	5	99%
1956	1520	0.00036866	1510	10	99%
1957	1480	0.000352201	1480		100%
1958	1350	0.000326568	1345	5	99%
1959	1363	0.000327802	1356	7	99%
1960	1363	0.000328132	1363		100%
1961	1316	0.000317698	1316		100%
1962	1260	0.000312239	1253	7	99%
1963	1122	0.000283462	1122		100%
1964	1033	0.000265716	1026	7	99%
1965	974	0.000268656	965	9	98%
1966	874	0.000251463	869	5	99%
1967	761	0.00022416	761		100%
1968	730	0.000216078	730		100%
1969	706	0.000203147	706		100%
1970	726	0.000201302	726		100%
1971	783	0.000228123	783		100%
1972	691	0.000219854	691		100%
1973	746	0.000247275	746		100%
1974	734	0.000241447	728	6	98%
1975	716	0.000237134	716		100%
1976	664	0.000218831	658	6	98%
1977	767	0.000241461	767		100%
1978	716	0.000225592	716		100%
1979	772	0.000232041	765	7	98%
1980	841	0.000244157	841		100%
1981	919	0.000265655	913	6	99%
1982	944	0.000269102	935	9	98%
1983	867	0.000250336	860	7	98%
1984	893	0.000255965	884	9	98%
1985	866	0.000242638	859	7	98%
1986	869	0.000244302	861	8	98%
1987	856	0.000237408	848	8	98%
1988	913	0.000247088	913		100%
1989	914	0.000237746	903	11	98%
1990	990	0.000250476	983	7	99%
1991	943	0.000242089	935	8	98%
1992	956	0.000248876	948	8	98%
1993	916	0.000242953	907	9	98%
1994	958	0.000257689	958		100%
1995	924	0.00025231	924		100%
1996	890	0.000244023	890		100%
1997	934	0.000257602	934		100%
1998	941	0.000255831	941		100%
1999	993	0.000268824	993		100%
2000	982	0.000259795	982		100%
2001	1071	0.000286104	1071		100%
2002	1059	0.000283285	1059		100%
2003	1099	0.000289034	1099		100%
2004	1113	0.000291291	1113		100%
2005	1202	0.000312626	1202		100%
2006	1156	0.0002922	1156		100%
2007	1261	0.000315433	1261		100%
2008	1280	0.000325645	1280		100%
2009	1253	0.000327995	1253		100%
2010	1265	0.000342286	1259	6	99%
2011	1355	0.000370442	1355		100%
2012	1344	0.000367477	1344		100%
2013	1447	0.00039691	1440	7	99%
2014	1668	0.000450035	1668		100%
2015	1624	0.000438811	1624		100%
2016	1814	0.000494453	1814		100%
2017	1836	0.000513395	1836		100%
2018	1857	0.000528172	1857		100%
2019	1731	0.000498713	1731		100%
2020	1836	0.000549606	1831	5	99%
2021	1845	0.000544577	1845		100%
2022	2086	0.000616588	2086		100%
2023	2026	0.000611864	2026		100%
2024	2206	0.000662761	2206		100%

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