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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Evan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Evan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Evan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Evan” 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 22 0.00010919 22 -100%
1881 24 0.000124554 24 -100%
1882 12 0.000054168 12 -100%
1883 18 0.00008297 18 -100%
1884 22 0.000090364 22 -100%
1885 23 0.000095494 23 -100%
1886 11 0.000043084 11 -100%
1887 21 0.000084886 21 -100%
1888 22 0.000073462 22 -100%
1889 17 0.000058835 17 -100%
1890 22 0.000072992 22 -100%
1891 18 0.000062789 18 -100%
1892 20 0.000059813 20 -100%
1893 17 0.000052272 17 -100%
1894 25 0.000073814 25 -100%
1895 13 0.000037035 13 -100%
1896 14 0.000039163 14 -100%
1897 17 0.000048997 17 -100%
1898 24 0.000062917 24 -100%
1899 17 0.000050113 17 -100%
1900 24 0.000053303 24 -100%
1901 24 0.000069402 24 -100%
1902 20 0.000051715 20 -100%
1903 22 0.000057712 22 -100%
1904 12 0.000029741 12 -100%
1905 20 0.000047178 20 -100%
1906 26 0.000060684 26 -100%
1907 20 0.000042975 20 -100%
1908 25 0.000051161 25 -100%
1909 25 0.000048902 25 -100%
1910 31 0.000052479 31 -100%
1911 29 0.000045012 29 -100%
1912 77 0.00007793 77 -100%
1913 92 0.000080907 92 -100%
1914 99 0.000069898 99 -100%
1915 154 0.000084042 5 149 -94%
1916 187 0.00009667 5 182 -95%
1917 167 0.000083219 6 161 -93%
1918 185 0.00008521 7 178 -92%
1919 132 0.000062552 132 -100%
1920 159 0.000070272 159 -100%
1921 164 0.00007025 7 157 -91%
1922 191 0.000083437 9 182 -91%
1923 147 0.000063844 147 -100%
1924 177 0.000074319 7 170 -92%
1925 165 0.000070715 8 157 -90%
1926 135 0.0000588 8 127 -88%
1927 169 0.000072865 5 164 -94%
1928 135 0.00005971 5 130 -93%
1929 125 0.000057021 7 118 -89%
1930 126 0.000056673 126 -100%
1931 112 0.000053222 112 -100%
1932 116 0.000054943 116 -100%
1933 115 0.000057516 7 108 -88%
1934 136 0.000065485 136 -100%
1935 112 0.000053591 6 106 -89%
1936 97 0.000046689 97 -100%
1937 120 0.00005632 120 -100%
1938 128 0.000057851 128 -100%
1939 131 0.000059452 5 126 -92%
1940 134 0.000058193 8 126 -88%
1941 128 0.000052536 128 -100%
1942 161 0.000058935 7 154 -91%
1943 148 0.000052435 148 -100%
1944 136 0.000050556 136 -100%
1945 146 0.000055034 8 138 -89%
1946 166 0.000051951 166 -100%
1947 210 0.000058296 210 -100%
1948 170 0.000049239 5 165 -94%
1949 180 0.000051653 6 174 -93%
1950 219 0.000062511 11 208 -90%
1951 236 0.000064065 10 226 -92%
1952 298 0.000078462 9 289 -94%
1953 286 0.000074215 11 275 -92%
1954 303 0.000076117 16 287 -89%
1955 333 0.000082937 10 323 -94%
1956 373 0.000090467 16 357 -91%
1957 314 0.000074724 13 301 -92%
1958 337 0.000081521 9 328 -95%
1959 410 0.000098605 13 397 -94%
1960 466 0.000112186 15 451 -94%
1961 500 0.000120706 13 487 -95%
1962 509 0.000126135 14 495 -94%
1963 463 0.000116972 8 455 -97%
1964 618 0.000158967 13 605 -96%
1965 574 0.000158325 16 558 -94%
1966 556 0.00015997 9 547 -97%
1967 499 0.000146985 7 492 -97%
1968 456 0.000134975 5 451 -98%
1969 559 0.000160848 15 544 -95%
1970 602 0.00016692 7 595 -98%
1971 566 0.000164901 16 550 -94%
1972 568 0.000180719 8 560 -97%
1973 580 0.000192251 7 573 -98%
1974 639 0.000210197 8 631 -97%
1975 633 0.000209645 13 620 -96%
1976 791 0.000260686 14 777 -96%
1977 1030 0.000324257 24 1006 -95%
1978 1183 0.000372731 26 1157 -96%
1979 1429 0.000429516 27 1402 -96%
1980 1656 0.000480766 32 1624 -96%
1981 2030 0.000586811 58 1972 -94%
1982 2730 0.00077823 61 2669 -96%
1983 3122 0.000901442 76 3046 -95%
1984 3020 0.000865638 83 2937 -95%
1985 3322 0.000930764 103 3219 -94%
1986 3980 0.001118896 92 3888 -95%
1987 3952 0.001096069 83 3869 -96%
1988 4417 0.001195385 81 4336 -96%
1989 5040 0.001310982 114 4926 -95%
1990 5421 0.001371545 112 5309 -96%
1991 5590 0.001435076 141 5449 -95%
1992 6178 0.001608321 127 6051 -96%
1993 6192 0.001642319 103 6089 -97%
1994 5994 0.001612308 99 5895 -97%
1995 6179 0.001687258 89 6090 -97%
1996 5669 0.001554345 91 5578 -97%
1997 6085 0.001678274 83 6002 -97%
1998 6170 0.001677448 86 6084 -97%
1999 6927 0.001875271 77 6850 -98%
2000 7418 0.001962484 85 7333 -98%
2001 7345 0.001962125 86 7259 -98%
2002 7486 0.002002519 102 7384 -97%
2003 9533 0.002507154 90 9443 -98%
2004 10117 0.00264779 134 9983 -97%
2005 10218 0.002657584 109 10109 -98%
2006 10227 0.002585063 98 10129 -98%
2007 10410 0.002604008 115 10295 -98%
2008 10057 0.0025586 131 9926 -97%
2009 10386 0.002718724 106 10280 -98%
2010 9820 0.002657114 88 9732 -98%
2011 8761 0.002395161 100 8661 -98%
2012 8033 0.002196389 124 7909 -97%
2013 7222 0.001980982 103 7119 -97%
2014 6800 0.001834676 76 6724 -98%
2015 6014 0.001625005 98 5916 -97%
2016 5700 0.001553685 88 5612 -97%
2017 4813 0.001345844 87 4726 -96%
2018 4479 0.001273928 90 4389 -96%
2019 4038 0.001163376 74 3964 -96%
2020 3500 0.001047723 87 3413 -95%
2021 3295 0.000972565 91 3204 -94%
2022 2924 0.000864287 82 2842 -94%
2023 2658 0.000802731 65 2593 -95%
2024 2587 0.000777227 61 2526 -95%

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