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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Fiona” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fiona” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Fiona” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fiona” 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
1942 9 0.000003295 9 100%
1943 19 0.000006731 19 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 100%
1958 18 0.000004354 18 100%
1959 16 0.000003848 16 100%
1960 21 0.000005056 21 100%
1961 35 0.000008449 35 100%
1962 26 0.000006443 26 100%
1963 35 0.000008842 35 100%
1964 44 0.000011318 44 100%
1965 38 0.000010481 38 100%
1966 52 0.000014961 52 100%
1967 71 0.000020914 71 100%
1968 50 0.0000148 50 100%
1969 67 0.000019279 67 100%
1970 60 0.000016637 60 100%
1971 59 0.000017189 59 100%
1972 69 0.000021954 69 100%
1973 68 0.00002254 68 100%
1974 52 0.000017105 52 100%
1975 58 0.000019209 58 100%
1976 57 0.000018785 57 100%
1977 59 0.000018574 59 100%
1978 52 0.000016384 52 100%
1979 65 0.000019537 65 100%
1980 63 0.00001829 63 100%
1981 80 0.000023126 80 100%
1982 73 0.00002081 73 100%
1983 88 0.000025409 88 100%
1984 68 0.000019491 68 100%
1985 90 0.000025216 90 100%
1986 94 0.000026426 94 100%
1987 109 0.000030231 109 100%
1988 131 0.000035453 131 100%
1989 159 0.000041358 159 100%
1990 204 0.000051613 204 100%
1991 220 0.000056479 220 100%
1992 180 0.000046859 180 100%
1993 196 0.000051986 196 100%
1994 210 0.000056487 210 100%
1995 252 0.000068812 252 100%
1996 375 0.000102819 375 100%
1997 459 0.000126595 459 100%
1998 485 0.000131858 485 100%
1999 552 0.000149437 552 100%
2000 603 0.000159528 603 100%
2001 694 0.000185393 694 100%
2002 858 0.000229517 858 100%
2003 885 0.000232753 885 100%
2004 975 0.000255174 970 5 99%
2005 843 0.000219255 843 100%
2006 990 0.000250241 990 100%
2007 918 0.000229633 918 100%
2008 964 0.000245251 964 100%
2009 1051 0.000275118 1051 100%
2010 1264 0.000342015 1264 100%
2011 1211 0.000331074 1211 100%
2012 1503 0.000410951 1503 100%
2013 1640 0.000449849 1640 100%
2014 1647 0.000444369 1647 100%
2015 1495 0.000403954 1495 100%
2016 1560 0.000425219 1560 100%
2017 1683 0.000470612 1683 100%
2018 1414 0.000402173 1414 100%
2019 1250 0.000360134 1250 100%
2020 1088 0.000325692 1088 100%
2021 1072 0.000316416 1072 100%
2022 881 0.000260409 881 100%
2023 766 0.000231336 766 100%
2024 782 0.000234941 782 100%

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