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How popular is “Ethelyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ethelyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ethelyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ethelyn” 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 14 0.000069484 14 100%
1881 11 0.000057087 11 100%
1882 15 0.00006771 15 100%
1883 12 0.000055313 12 100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 100%
1885 15 0.000062278 15 100%
1886 19 0.000074418 19 100%
1887 14 0.00005659 14 100%
1888 18 0.000060105 18 100%
1889 13 0.000044991 13 100%
1890 9 0.000029861 9 100%
1891 20 0.000069766 20 100%
1892 15 0.00004486 15 100%
1893 18 0.000055347 18 100%
1894 33 0.000097434 33 100%
1895 27 0.000076919 27 100%
1896 28 0.000078325 28 100%
1897 26 0.000074937 26 100%
1898 39 0.00010224 39 100%
1899 26 0.000076643 26 100%
1900 29 0.000064408 29 100%
1901 24 0.000069402 24 100%
1902 31 0.000080159 31 100%
1903 30 0.000078699 30 100%
1904 43 0.000106571 43 100%
1905 33 0.000077845 33 100%
1906 38 0.000088692 38 100%
1907 42 0.000090247 42 100%
1908 55 0.000112555 55 100%
1909 45 0.000088024 45 100%
1910 65 0.000110037 65 100%
1911 69 0.000107097 69 100%
1912 81 0.000081979 81 100%
1913 77 0.000067716 77 100%
1914 95 0.000067074 95 100%
1915 147 0.000080222 147 100%
1916 151 0.00007806 151 100%
1917 164 0.000081724 164 100%
1918 152 0.00007001 152 100%
1919 99 0.000046914 99 100%
1920 168 0.000074249 168 100%
1921 146 0.00006254 146 100%
1922 137 0.000059847 137 100%
1923 119 0.000051683 119 100%
1924 127 0.000053325 127 100%
1925 128 0.000054858 128 100%
1926 111 0.000048347 111 100%
1927 111 0.000047858 111 100%
1928 109 0.00004821 109 100%
1929 94 0.00004288 94 100%
1930 85 0.000038232 85 100%
1931 76 0.000036115 76 100%
1932 76 0.000035997 76 100%
1933 66 0.000033009 66 100%
1934 63 0.000030335 63 100%
1935 56 0.000026796 56 100%
1936 47 0.000022622 47 100%
1937 61 0.000028629 61 100%
1938 58 0.000026214 58 100%
1939 38 0.000017246 38 100%
1940 35 0.0000152 35 100%
1941 47 0.000019291 47 100%
1942 41 0.000015008 41 100%
1943 41 0.000014526 41 100%
1944 48 0.000017843 48 100%
1945 26 0.000009801 26 100%
1946 31 0.000009702 31 100%
1947 40 0.000011104 40 100%
1948 38 0.000011006 38 100%
1949 26 0.000007461 26 100%
1950 25 0.000007136 25 100%
1951 34 0.00000923 34 100%
1952 34 0.000008952 34 100%
1953 26 0.000006747 26 100%
1954 18 0.000004522 18 100%
1955 23 0.000005728 23 100%
1956 17 0.000004123 17 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 22 0.000005322 22 100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%

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