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How popular is “Felix” in the USA?

Number of people named “Felix” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Felix” by birth year

This chart shows how “Felix” 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 92 0.000456612 92 -100%
1881 72 0.000373661 72 -100%
1882 91 0.000410774 91 -100%
1883 68 0.000313442 68 -100%
1884 102 0.000418958 102 -100%
1885 80 0.000332151 80 -100%
1886 92 0.000360338 92 -100%
1887 82 0.000331458 82 -100%
1888 101 0.000337258 101 -100%
1889 83 0.000287251 83 -100%
1890 72 0.000238884 72 -100%
1891 86 0.000299993 86 -100%
1892 96 0.000287104 96 -100%
1893 86 0.000264434 86 -100%
1894 78 0.000230299 78 -100%
1895 109 0.000310524 109 -100%
1896 83 0.000232178 83 -100%
1897 97 0.000279574 97 -100%
1898 103 0.000270019 103 -100%
1899 93 0.000274147 93 -100%
1900 123 0.000273177 123 -100%
1901 70 0.000202422 70 -100%
1902 114 0.000294777 114 -100%
1903 93 0.000243966 93 -100%
1904 103 0.000255276 103 -100%
1905 115 0.000271276 115 -100%
1906 112 0.000261407 112 -100%
1907 112 0.000240658 112 -100%
1908 118 0.000241482 118 -100%
1909 148 0.000289501 148 -100%
1910 161 0.000272553 161 -100%
1911 173 0.000268518 173 -100%
1912 300 0.000303625 300 -100%
1913 362 0.000318351 362 -100%
1914 526 0.000371379 526 -100%
1915 583 0.000318157 583 -100%
1916 692 0.000357731 692 -100%
1917 668 0.000332877 8 660 -98%
1918 746 0.000343603 746 -100%
1919 725 0.000343562 725 -100%
1920 676 0.000298766 8 668 -98%
1921 677 0.000289997 10 667 -97%
1922 664 0.000290063 8 656 -98%
1923 648 0.000281436 10 638 -97%
1924 667 0.000280063 5 662 -99%
1925 621 0.000266146 621 -100%
1926 566 0.000246526 7 559 -98%
1927 576 0.000248345 13 563 -95%
1928 483 0.000213628 15 468 -94%
1929 504 0.00022991 6 498 -98%
1930 522 0.000234787 7 515 -97%
1931 489 0.000232372 9 480 -96%
1932 443 0.000209824 5 438 -98%
1933 415 0.000207557 8 407 -96%
1934 393 0.000189232 6 387 -97%
1935 394 0.000188526 5 389 -97%
1936 404 0.000194457 9 395 -96%
1937 404 0.000189612 7 397 -97%
1938 400 0.000180785 7 393 -96%
1939 398 0.000180626 398 -100%
1940 399 0.000173276 9 390 -95%
1941 388 0.00015925 6 382 -97%
1942 401 0.000146789 401 -100%
1943 417 0.000147738 417 -100%
1944 422 0.000156873 422 -100%
1945 413 0.000155678 8 405 -96%
1946 448 0.000140206 448 -100%
1947 495 0.000137411 5 490 -98%
1948 465 0.000134684 7 458 -97%
1949 502 0.000144055 502 -100%
1950 498 0.000142149 498 -100%
1951 544 0.000147676 7 537 -97%
1952 544 0.000143233 5 539 -98%
1953 575 0.000149209 6 569 -98%
1954 565 0.000141935 565 -100%
1955 562 0.000139972 5 557 -98%
1956 596 0.000144554 5 591 -98%
1957 659 0.000156825 11 648 -97%
1958 629 0.000152156 5 624 -98%
1959 638 0.000153439 7 631 -98%
1960 662 0.000159372 8 654 -98%
1961 588 0.00014195 588 -100%
1962 588 0.000145711 6 582 -98%
1963 622 0.000157142 9 613 -97%
1964 571 0.000146877 5 566 -98%
1965 593 0.000163566 593 -100%
1966 533 0.000153352 7 526 -97%
1967 492 0.000144923 5 487 -98%
1968 577 0.00017079 8 569 -97%
1969 571 0.000164301 571 -100%
1970 644 0.000178566 5 639 -98%
1971 610 0.000177721 8 602 -97%
1972 536 0.000170538 10 526 -96%
1973 559 0.00018529 559 -100%
1974 546 0.000179605 8 538 -97%
1975 547 0.000181162 9 538 -97%
1976 517 0.000170385 5 512 -98%
1977 541 0.000170314 8 533 -97%
1978 528 0.000166358 528 -100%
1979 551 0.000165615 10 541 -96%
1980 540 0.000156771 540 -100%
1981 568 0.000164192 13 555 -95%
1982 527 0.00015023 527 -100%
1983 502 0.000144947 9 493 -96%
1984 496 0.000142171 5 491 -98%
1985 479 0.000134207 479 -100%
1986 496 0.00013944 7 489 -97%
1987 560 0.000155313 8 552 -97%
1988 570 0.000154261 570 -100%
1989 616 0.000160231 5 611 -98%
1990 634 0.000160406 634 -100%
1991 591 0.000151723 6 585 -98%
1992 705 0.000183533 14 691 -96%
1993 615 0.000163118 8 607 -97%
1994 601 0.000161661 5 596 -98%
1995 627 0.000171211 5 622 -98%
1996 619 0.000169719 7 612 -98%
1997 651 0.000179549 5 646 -98%
1998 646 0.000175629 9 637 -97%
1999 673 0.000182194 9 664 -97%
2000 696 0.000184132 696 -100%
2001 695 0.000185661 11 684 -97%
2002 667 0.000178424 6 661 -98%
2003 702 0.000184624 12 690 -97%
2004 691 0.000180846 691 -100%
2005 776 0.000201829 7 769 -98%
2006 765 0.000193368 5 760 -99%
2007 810 0.000202617 810 -100%
2008 890 0.000226425 890 -100%
2009 927 0.000242659 927 -100%
2010 951 0.000257323 951 -100%
2011 1040 0.000284325 5 1035 -99%
2012 1054 0.000288185 15 1039 -97%
2013 1193 0.000327238 13 1180 -98%
2014 1384 0.000373411 5 1379 -99%
2015 1394 0.000376664 17 1377 -98%
2016 1519 0.000414043 8 1511 -99%
2017 1527 0.00042699 14 1513 -98%
2018 1667 0.000474132 13 1654 -98%
2019 1708 0.000492087 16 1692 -98%
2020 1678 0.000502308 10 1668 -99%
2021 1972 0.000582063 14 1958 -99%
2022 1983 0.000586143 9 1974 -99%
2023 1904 0.000575019 7 1897 -99%
2024 2091 0.000628211 10 2081 -99%

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