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How popular is “Evelyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Evelyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Evelyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Evelyn” 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 122 0.000605507 122 100%
1881 116 0.000602009 116 100%
1882 125 0.00056425 125 100%
1883 139 0.000640712 139 100%
1884 170 0.000698264 170 100%
1885 191 0.000793012 191 100%
1886 203 0.000795093 203 100%
1887 194 0.000784181 194 100%
1888 237 0.000791388 237 100%
1889 320 0.001107473 320 100%
1890 316 0.001048437 316 100%
1891 362 0.001262763 362 100%
1892 418 0.001250097 418 100%
1893 457 0.00140519 457 100%
1894 491 0.001449703 491 100%
1895 630 0.00179477 630 100%
1896 646 0.001807074 646 100%
1897 690 0.001988719 690 100%
1898 836 0.002191609 836 100%
1899 802 0.00236415 802 100%
1900 1123 0.002494126 1116 7 99%
1901 971 0.002807884 966 5 99%
1902 1156 0.002989142 1151 5 99%
1903 1219 0.003197796 1211 8 99%
1904 1379 0.003417723 1372 7 99%
1905 1671 0.003941763 1661 10 99%
1906 2087 0.004871035 2077 10 99%
1907 3047 0.006547197 3035 12 99%
1908 2866 0.005865151 2857 9 99%
1909 3165 0.006191024 3157 8 99%
1910 3791 0.00641769 3777 14 99%
1911 4087 0.006343535 4076 11 99%
1912 5638 0.00570612 5620 18 99%
1913 6702 0.005893889 6683 19 99%
1914 8525 0.006019018 8506 19 100%
1915 11619 0.006340774 11595 24 100%
1916 11915 0.006159478 11889 26 100%
1917 12561 0.006259375 12532 29 100%
1918 13524 0.006229069 13493 31 100%
1919 13348 0.006325332 13321 27 100%
1920 13862 0.006126463 13838 24 100%
1921 14308 0.006128923 14278 30 100%
1922 13350 0.005831844 13319 31 100%
1923 13212 0.005738158 13174 38 99%
1924 13397 0.005625186 13358 39 99%
1925 12541 0.005374786 12505 36 99%
1926 11820 0.005148297 11780 40 99%
1927 11532 0.004972065 11495 37 99%
1928 10574 0.00467682 10533 41 99%
1929 9925 0.004527496 9886 39 99%
1930 9586 0.004311632 9536 50 99%
1931 8530 0.004053435 8491 39 99%
1932 7999 0.003788677 7958 41 99%
1933 6971 0.003486464 6948 23 99%
1934 7018 0.003379211 6983 35 99%
1935 6591 0.003153739 6560 31 99%
1936 6139 0.002954883 6108 31 99%
1937 5794 0.002719332 5760 34 99%
1938 5711 0.002581157 5688 23 99%
1939 5371 0.00243755 5331 40 99%
1940 5006 0.002173984 4982 24 99%
1941 4952 0.002032486 4929 23 99%
1942 4959 0.001815275 4940 19 99%
1943 4927 0.001745579 4912 15 99%
1944 4532 0.001684709 4516 16 99%
1945 4390 0.001654787 4377 13 99%
1946 4911 0.001536942 4890 21 99%
1947 5255 0.001458781 5243 12 100%
1948 4854 0.00140593 4840 14 99%
1949 4545 0.001304245 4529 16 99%
1950 4285 0.001223112 4275 10 100%
1951 4246 0.001152633 4232 14 99%
1952 4168 0.001097418 4155 13 99%
1953 4076 0.0010577 4064 12 99%
1954 3965 0.000996054 3952 13 99%
1955 3823 0.00095216 3805 18 99%
1956 3766 0.000913404 3748 18 99%
1957 3651 0.000868842 3640 11 99%
1958 3291 0.0007961 3275 16 99%
1959 3285 0.000790045 3265 20 99%
1960 3227 0.000776876 3218 9 99%
1961 2959 0.000714337 2941 18 99%
1962 2789 0.000691138 2781 8 99%
1963 2580 0.000651811 2566 14 99%
1964 2393 0.000615546 2380 13 99%
1965 2009 0.000554138 2003 6 99%
1966 1881 0.000541193 1872 9 99%
1967 1732 0.000510177 1723 9 99%
1968 1651 0.000488691 1645 6 99%
1969 1461 0.000420393 1452 9 99%
1970 1475 0.000408982 1466 9 99%
1971 1309 0.000381371 1301 8 99%
1972 1069 0.000340122 1060 9 98%
1973 1024 0.000339423 1015 9 98%
1974 951 0.000312829 942 9 98%
1975 873 0.000289131 868 5 99%
1976 827 0.000272551 819 8 98%
1977 832 0.000261924 832 100%
1978 820 0.00025836 820 100%
1979 852 0.000256087 852 100%
1980 869 0.000252286 859 10 98%
1981 1041 0.000300921 1031 10 98%
1982 1394 0.000397382 1377 17 98%
1983 1152 0.000332627 1139 13 98%
1984 1061 0.00030412 1050 11 98%
1985 1145 0.000320808 1132 13 98%
1986 1090 0.000306431 1081 9 98%
1987 1028 0.000285111 1012 16 97%
1988 1139 0.000308251 1124 15 97%
1989 1190 0.000309537 1171 19 97%
1990 1316 0.000332956 1302 14 98%
1991 1278 0.000328091 1269 9 99%
1992 1432 0.000372793 1411 21 97%
1993 1353 0.000358859 1347 6 99%
1994 1461 0.00039299 1451 10 99%
1995 1517 0.000414237 1508 9 99%
1996 1605 0.000440064 1596 9 99%
1997 1571 0.00043329 1571 100%
1998 1707 0.000464085 1707 100%
1999 1964 0.000531692 1964 100%
2000 2223 0.00058811 2223 100%
2001 2698 0.000720737 2692 6 100%
2002 3379 0.000903889 3372 7 100%
2003 3713 0.000976509 3701 12 99%
2004 3774 0.00098772 3763 11 99%
2005 4497 0.001169618 4489 8 100%
2006 4761 0.001203431 4751 10 100%
2007 5060 0.001265733 5054 6 100%
2008 5110 0.001300034 5100 10 100%
2009 5584 0.001461713 5584 100%
2010 5851 0.001583175 5843 8 100%
2011 6717 0.001836354 6709 8 100%
2012 6893 0.001884689 6880 13 100%
2013 7682 0.002107159 7668 14 100%
2014 8758 0.002362955 8753 5 100%
2015 9393 0.002538023 9376 17 100%
2016 10124 0.002759562 10116 8 100%
2017 10758 0.003008225 10747 11 100%
2018 10445 0.002970792 10432 13 100%
2019 10447 0.003009854 10441 6 100%
2020 9523 0.002850705 9516 7 100%
2021 9499 0.002803761 9489 10 100%
2022 9336 0.002759571 9330 6 100%
2023 9121 0.002754594 9113 8 100%
2024 9122 0.002740573 9116 6 100%

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