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How popular is “Foy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Foy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Foy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Foy” 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
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 -100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 -100%
1900 10 0.000022209 10 -100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1905 14 0.000033025 14 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 100%
1908 19 0.000038883 10 9 5%
1909 13 0.000025429 7 6 8%
1910 17 0.000028779 7 10 -18%
1911 19 0.00002949 9 10 -5%
1912 43 0.00004352 18 25 -16%
1913 54 0.000047489 16 38 -41%
1914 54 0.000038126 13 41 -52%
1915 75 0.000040929 17 58 -55%
1916 55 0.000028432 9 46 -67%
1917 62 0.000030896 14 48 -55%
1918 69 0.000031781 16 53 -54%
1919 61 0.000028907 15 46 -51%
1920 60 0.000026518 15 45 -50%
1921 81 0.000034697 13 68 -68%
1922 75 0.000032763 13 62 -65%
1923 65 0.00002823 13 52 -60%
1924 76 0.000031911 14 62 -63%
1925 53 0.000022715 10 43 -62%
1926 64 0.000027876 13 51 -59%
1927 65 0.000028025 16 49 -51%
1928 60 0.000026538 10 50 -67%
1929 50 0.000022809 10 40 -60%
1930 51 0.000022939 14 37 -45%
1931 60 0.000028512 12 48 -60%
1932 51 0.000024156 8 43 -69%
1933 39 0.000019505 8 31 -59%
1934 36 0.000017334 6 30 -67%
1935 44 0.000021054 9 35 -59%
1936 54 0.000025992 10 44 -63%
1937 34 0.000015957 5 29 -71%
1938 40 0.000018078 8 32 -60%
1939 53 0.000024053 6 47 -77%
1940 34 0.000014765 34 -100%
1941 42 0.000017238 5 37 -76%
1942 41 0.000015008 6 35 -71%
1943 49 0.00001736 9 40 -63%
1944 40 0.000014869 6 34 -70%
1945 31 0.000011685 5 26 -68%
1946 40 0.000012518 40 -100%
1947 28 0.000007773 28 -100%
1948 29 0.0000084 29 -100%
1949 22 0.000006313 22 -100%
1950 28 0.000007992 5 23 -64%
1951 22 0.000005972 22 -100%
1952 22 0.000005793 22 -100%
1953 26 0.000006747 26 -100%
1954 28 0.000007034 28 -100%
1955 16 0.000003985 16 -100%
1956 17 0.000004123 17 -100%
1957 22 0.000005235 22 -100%
1958 15 0.000003629 15 -100%
1959 19 0.00000457 19 -100%
1960 17 0.000004093 17 -100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 -100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 -100%
1963 14 0.000003537 14 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 -100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 -100%
1967 11 0.00000324 11 -100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 -100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 -100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%

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