Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Forever” in the USA?

Number of people named “Forever” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Forever” by birth year

This chart shows how “Forever” 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
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 100%
2008 20 0.000005088 20 100%
2009 27 0.000007068 27 100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 100%
2011 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2013 37 0.000010149 31 6 68%
2014 33 0.000008904 33 100%
2015 37 0.000009998 32 5 73%
2016 24 0.000006542 24 100%
2017 36 0.000010067 29 7 61%
2018 35 0.000009955 35 100%
2019 42 0.0000121 30 12 43%
2020 46 0.00001377 41 5 78%
2021 36 0.000010626 29 7 61%
2022 66 0.000019509 45 21 36%
2023 45 0.00001359 33 12 47%
2024 50 0.000015022 41 9 64%

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