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How popular is “Fisher” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fisher” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Fisher” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fisher” 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
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1910 7 0.00001185 7 -100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 8 0.000004366 8 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1917 11 0.000005482 11 -100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 9 0.000003978 9 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
1993 15 0.000003978 15 -100%
1994 27 0.000007263 27 -100%
1995 19 0.000005188 19 -100%
1996 44 0.000012064 44 -100%
1997 47 0.000012963 47 -100%
1998 55 0.000014953 55 -100%
1999 69 0.00001868 69 -100%
2000 85 0.000022487 85 -100%
2001 107 0.000028584 107 -100%
2002 108 0.00002889 108 -100%
2003 122 0.000032086 122 -100%
2004 166 0.000043445 166 -100%
2005 172 0.000044735 172 -100%
2006 181 0.000045751 181 -100%
2007 218 0.000054532 6 212 -94%
2008 237 0.000060295 237 -100%
2009 256 0.000067013 256 -100%
2010 255 0.000068998 255 -100%
2011 249 0.000068074 249 -100%
2012 268 0.000073277 6 262 -96%
2013 252 0.000069123 5 247 -96%
2014 304 0.000082021 304 -100%
2015 294 0.00007944 294 -100%
2016 315 0.000085862 5 310 -97%
2017 314 0.000087803 7 307 -96%
2018 288 0.000081914 6 282 -96%
2019 308 0.000088737 8 300 -95%
2020 253 0.000075735 7 246 -94%
2021 265 0.000078218 265 -100%
2022 272 0.000080399 5 267 -96%
2023 273 0.000082448 5 268 -96%
2024 267 0.000080216 5 262 -96%

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