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How popular is “Fergus” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fergus” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Fergus” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fergus” 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
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1918 10 0.000004606 10 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 -100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 -100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 -100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 -100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 -100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 -100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 -100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 20 0.000005486 20 -100%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 -100%
2015 21 0.000005674 21 -100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 -100%
2017 17 0.000004754 17 -100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 -100%
2019 15 0.000004322 15 -100%
2020 13 0.000003892 13 -100%
2021 22 0.000006494 22 -100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 23 0.000006946 23 -100%
2024 23 0.00000691 23 -100%

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