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How popular is “Fitzgerald” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fitzgerald” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Fitzgerald” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fitzgerald” 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
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1961 24 0.000005794 24 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 52 0.000013137 52 -100%
1964 125 0.000032153 125 -100%
1965 58 0.000015998 58 -100%
1966 43 0.000012372 43 -100%
1967 29 0.000008542 29 -100%
1968 16 0.000004736 16 -100%
1969 24 0.000006906 24 -100%
1970 34 0.000009427 34 -100%
1971 24 0.000006992 24 -100%
1972 19 0.000006045 19 -100%
1973 18 0.000005966 18 -100%
1974 25 0.000008224 25 -100%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 -100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 -100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 -100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 -100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 -100%
1984 23 0.000006593 23 -100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 -100%
1986 16 0.000004498 16 -100%
1987 22 0.000006102 22 -100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
1989 17 0.000004422 17 -100%
1990 18 0.000004554 18 -100%
1991 16 0.000004108 16 -100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 -100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 -100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 -100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 -100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 -100%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 -100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 -100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 -100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2013 29 0.000007955 29 -100%
2014 57 0.000015379 57 -100%
2015 73 0.000019725 73 -100%
2016 86 0.000023442 86 -100%
2017 82 0.000022929 82 -100%
2018 102 0.000029011 102 -100%
2019 93 0.000026794 93 -100%
2020 78 0.000023349 78 -100%
2021 95 0.000028041 95 -100%
2022 73 0.000021578 73 -100%
2023 63 0.000019026 63 -100%
2024 64 0.000019228 64 -100%

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