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How popular is “Fable” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fable” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Fable” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fable” 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
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2012 20 0.000005468 15 5 50%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 100%
2014 18 0.000004856 18 100%
2015 16 0.000004323 16 100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 100%
2017 12 0.000003356 12 100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 100%
2020 23 0.000006885 18 5 57%
2021 27 0.000007969 20 7 48%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 100%
2023 32 0.000009664 27 5 69%
2024 41 0.000012318 41 100%

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  10. Fabrienne
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