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How popular is “Ethyl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ethyl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ethyl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ethyl” 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 8 0.000039705 8 100%
1881 7 0.000036328 7 100%
1882 9 0.000040626 9 100%
1883 10 0.000046094 10 100%
1884 16 0.000065719 16 100%
1885 16 0.00006643 16 100%
1886 12 0.000047001 12 100%
1887 14 0.00005659 14 100%
1888 35 0.000116872 35 100%
1889 24 0.000083061 24 100%
1890 25 0.000082946 25 100%
1891 36 0.000125579 36 100%
1892 41 0.000122617 41 100%
1893 36 0.000110693 36 100%
1894 36 0.000106292 36 100%
1895 31 0.000088314 31 100%
1896 39 0.000109096 39 100%
1897 37 0.000106641 37 100%
1898 32 0.000083889 32 100%
1899 31 0.000091382 31 100%
1900 29 0.000064408 29 100%
1901 27 0.000078077 27 100%
1902 39 0.000100845 39 100%
1903 29 0.000076076 29 100%
1904 34 0.000084266 34 100%
1905 29 0.000068409 29 100%
1906 31 0.000072354 31 100%
1907 28 0.000060165 28 100%
1908 33 0.000067533 33 100%
1909 40 0.000078244 40 100%
1910 34 0.000057558 34 100%
1911 42 0.000065189 42 100%
1912 40 0.000040483 40 100%
1913 53 0.000046609 53 100%
1914 82 0.000057896 82 100%
1915 92 0.000050207 92 100%
1916 81 0.000041873 81 100%
1917 69 0.000034384 69 100%
1918 79 0.000036387 79 100%
1919 82 0.000038858 82 100%
1920 50 0.000022098 50 100%
1921 68 0.000029128 68 100%
1922 51 0.000022279 51 100%
1923 51 0.00002215 51 100%
1924 52 0.000021834 52 100%
1925 47 0.000020143 47 100%
1926 54 0.00002352 54 100%
1927 38 0.000016384 38 100%
1928 28 0.000012384 28 100%
1929 35 0.000015966 35 100%
1930 32 0.000014393 32 100%
1931 30 0.000014256 30 100%
1932 17 0.000008052 17 100%
1933 16 0.000008002 16 100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 100%
1935 15 0.000007177 15 100%
1936 24 0.000011552 24 100%
1937 15 0.00000704 15 100%
1938 24 0.000010847 24 100%
1939 19 0.000008623 19 100%
1940 17 0.000007383 17 100%
1941 15 0.000006157 15 100%
1942 20 0.000007321 20 100%
1943 14 0.00000496 14 100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 15 0.000004694 15 100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 100%
1949 20 0.000005739 20 100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%

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