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How popular is “Fayette” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fayette” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Fayette” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fayette” 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 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 9 0.000040626 9 -100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 -100%
1885 7 0.000029063 7 -100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1913 9 0.000007915 9 -100%
1914 15 0.000010591 5 10 -33%
1915 8 0.000004366 8 -100%
1916 29 0.000014992 14 15 -3%
1917 25 0.000012458 9 16 -28%
1918 26 0.000011975 9 17 -31%
1919 26 0.000012321 12 14 -8%
1920 15 0.000006629 8 7 7%
1921 15 0.000006425 7 8 -7%
1922 16 0.000006989 16 -100%
1923 38 0.000016504 14 24 -26%
1924 26 0.000010917 10 16 -23%
1925 21 0.000009 9 12 -14%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 16 0.000007077 8 8 0%
1929 24 0.000010948 11 13 -8%
1930 15 0.000006747 5 10 -33%
1931 12 0.000005702 12 -100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 -100%
1933 14 0.000007002 8 6 14%
1934 13 0.00000626 6 7 -8%
1935 19 0.000009091 5 14 -47%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 -100%
1937 15 0.00000704 15 100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 15 0.000006808 8 7 7%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 100%
1941 19 0.000007798 12 7 26%
1942 17 0.000006223 11 6 29%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 100%
1944 11 0.000004089 6 5 9%
1945 12 0.000004523 6 6 0%
1946 12 0.000003756 12 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1948 18 0.000005214 12 6 33%
1949 19 0.000005452 19 100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 100%
1951 21 0.000005701 21 100%
1952 28 0.000007372 19 9 36%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 100%
1954 22 0.000005527 22 100%
1955 28 0.000006974 28 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 100%
1961 16 0.000003863 16 100%
1962 17 0.000004213 12 5 41%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 100%

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