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How popular is “Fong” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fong” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Fong” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fong” 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
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 -100%
1981 20 0.000005781 20 -100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 -100%
1983 27 0.000007796 5 22 -63%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 -100%
1985 21 0.000005884 21 -100%
1986 19 0.000005341 19 -100%
1987 17 0.000004715 17 -100%
1988 19 0.000005142 19 -100%
1989 23 0.000005983 23 -100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 15 0.000003905 15 -100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 -100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 -100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 -100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 -100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%

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