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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Flo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Flo” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Flo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Flo” 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
1881 7 0.000036328 7 100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 100%
1887 12 0.000048506 12 100%
1888 10 0.000033392 10 100%
1889 14 0.000048452 14 100%
1890 14 0.00004645 14 100%
1891 24 0.000083719 24 100%
1892 18 0.000053832 18 100%
1893 11 0.000033823 11 100%
1894 22 0.000064956 22 100%
1895 19 0.000054128 19 100%
1896 15 0.00004196 15 100%
1897 20 0.000057644 20 100%
1898 20 0.000052431 20 100%
1899 21 0.000061904 21 100%
1900 14 0.000031093 14 100%
1901 21 0.000060727 21 100%
1902 18 0.000046544 18 100%
1903 21 0.000055089 21 100%
1904 22 0.000054525 22 100%
1905 28 0.00006605 28 100%
1906 16 0.000037344 16 100%
1907 24 0.00005157 24 100%
1908 16 0.000032743 16 100%
1909 18 0.00003521 18 100%
1910 27 0.000045708 27 100%
1911 19 0.00002949 19 100%
1912 29 0.00002935 29 100%
1913 20 0.000017588 20 100%
1914 29 0.000020475 29 100%
1915 39 0.000021283 39 100%
1916 56 0.000028949 56 100%
1917 57 0.000028404 57 100%
1918 46 0.000021187 46 100%
1919 36 0.00001706 36 100%
1920 52 0.000022982 52 100%
1921 49 0.000020989 49 100%
1922 34 0.000014853 34 100%
1923 35 0.000015201 35 100%
1924 38 0.000015956 38 100%
1925 39 0.000016715 39 100%
1926 41 0.000017858 41 100%
1927 53 0.000022851 53 100%
1928 53 0.000023442 53 100%
1929 40 0.000018247 40 100%
1930 52 0.000023389 52 100%
1931 36 0.000017107 36 100%
1932 48 0.000022735 48 100%
1933 40 0.000020006 40 100%
1934 39 0.000018779 39 100%
1935 39 0.000018661 39 100%
1936 40 0.000019253 40 100%
1937 32 0.000015019 32 100%
1938 33 0.000014915 33 100%
1939 37 0.000016792 37 100%
1940 29 0.000012594 29 100%
1941 31 0.000012724 31 100%
1942 28 0.00001025 28 100%
1943 27 0.000009566 27 100%
1944 39 0.000014498 39 100%
1945 20 0.000007539 20 100%
1946 22 0.000006885 22 100%
1947 27 0.000007495 27 100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 100%
1949 15 0.000004304 15 100%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 100%
1955 21 0.00000523 21 100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 100%
1957 15 0.00000357 15 100%
1958 17 0.000004112 17 100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 100%

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