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How popular is “Flossie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Flossie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Flossie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Flossie” 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
1880 25 0.000124079 25 100%
1881 28 0.000145313 28 100%
1882 33 0.000148962 33 100%
1883 64 0.000295004 64 100%
1884 70 0.00028752 70 100%
1885 73 0.000303088 73 100%
1886 105 0.000411255 105 100%
1887 123 0.000497187 123 100%
1888 182 0.000607732 182 100%
1889 221 0.000764849 221 100%
1890 231 0.000766421 231 100%
1891 292 0.001018582 292 100%
1892 301 0.00090019 301 100%
1893 296 0.000910145 296 100%
1894 297 0.000876908 297 100%
1895 295 0.000840408 295 100%
1896 315 0.000881158 315 100%
1897 278 0.000801252 278 100%
1898 320 0.000838893 320 100%
1899 265 0.000781172 265 100%
1900 368 0.000817309 368 100%
1901 301 0.000870415 301 100%
1902 330 0.000853302 330 100%
1903 297 0.000779119 297 100%
1904 338 0.000837702 338 100%
1905 406 0.000957723 406 100%
1906 296 0.000690861 296 100%
1907 391 0.000840156 391 100%
1908 340 0.000695796 340 100%
1909 343 0.000670939 343 100%
1910 387 0.000655143 387 100%
1911 339 0.00052617 339 100%
1912 393 0.000397748 393 100%
1913 463 0.000407173 463 100%
1914 538 0.000379851 538 100%
1915 587 0.00032034 582 5 98%
1916 548 0.000283289 548 100%
1917 574 0.000286035 574 100%
1918 569 0.000262078 564 5 98%
1919 613 0.000290488 613 100%
1920 544 0.000240427 544 100%
1921 534 0.000228742 534 100%
1922 478 0.000208811 478 100%
1923 510 0.0002215 505 5 98%
1924 467 0.000196086 467 100%
1925 455 0.000195003 455 100%
1926 450 0.000196001 445 5 98%
1927 423 0.000182378 418 5 98%
1928 397 0.000175591 397 100%
1929 382 0.000174257 375 7 96%
1930 366 0.000164621 366 100%
1931 292 0.000138758 292 100%
1932 289 0.000136883 289 100%
1933 292 0.00014604 292 100%
1934 276 0.000132896 276 100%
1935 249 0.000119144 249 100%
1936 201 0.000096747 201 100%
1937 204 0.000095745 204 100%
1938 189 0.000085421 184 5 95%
1939 171 0.000077606 171 100%
1940 156 0.000067747 156 100%
1941 152 0.000062386 152 100%
1942 159 0.000058203 159 100%
1943 149 0.000052789 149 100%
1944 141 0.000052415 141 100%
1945 108 0.00004071 108 100%
1946 108 0.0000338 108 100%
1947 121 0.000033589 121 100%
1948 123 0.000035626 123 100%
1949 102 0.00002927 102 100%
1950 87 0.000024833 87 100%
1951 89 0.00002416 89 100%
1952 76 0.000020011 76 100%
1953 62 0.000016089 62 100%
1954 68 0.000017082 68 100%
1955 59 0.000014695 59 100%
1956 69 0.000016735 69 100%
1957 65 0.000015468 65 100%
1958 47 0.000011369 47 100%
1959 45 0.000010823 45 100%
1960 53 0.000012759 53 100%
1961 39 0.000009415 39 100%
1962 33 0.000008178 33 100%
1963 39 0.000009853 39 100%
1964 31 0.000007974 31 100%
1965 38 0.000010481 38 100%
1966 22 0.00000633 22 100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 100%
1971 15 0.00000437 15 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 100%
1974 12 0.000003947 12 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%

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