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How popular is “Franklin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Franklin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Franklin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Franklin” 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 120 0.000595581 120 -100%
1881 117 0.000607199 117 -100%
1882 112 0.000505568 112 -100%
1883 94 0.000433288 94 -100%
1884 93 0.000381991 93 -100%
1885 117 0.000485771 117 -100%
1886 127 0.000497423 127 -100%
1887 89 0.000359753 89 -100%
1888 129 0.000430755 129 -100%
1889 100 0.000346085 100 -100%
1890 90 0.000298606 90 -100%
1891 109 0.000380224 109 -100%
1892 109 0.000325982 109 -100%
1893 99 0.000304407 99 -100%
1894 84 0.000248014 84 -100%
1895 103 0.000293431 103 -100%
1896 96 0.000268543 96 -100%
1897 68 0.00019599 68 -100%
1898 112 0.000293613 112 -100%
1899 116 0.000341947 116 -100%
1900 137 0.00030427 137 -100%
1901 92 0.000266041 92 -100%
1902 97 0.000250819 97 -100%
1903 116 0.000304302 116 -100%
1904 108 0.000267668 108 -100%
1905 98 0.000231175 98 -100%
1906 125 0.000291749 125 -100%
1907 122 0.000262146 122 -100%
1908 133 0.000272179 133 -100%
1909 168 0.000328623 168 -100%
1910 176 0.000297946 176 -100%
1911 220 0.000341468 220 -100%
1912 497 0.000503005 497 -100%
1913 593 0.000521497 593 -100%
1914 775 0.000547183 5 770 -99%
1915 1001 0.00054627 1001 -100%
1916 1073 0.000554689 1073 -100%
1917 1201 0.00059848 7 1194 -99%
1918 1280 0.00058956 5 1275 -99%
1919 1216 0.000576236 10 1206 -98%
1920 1458 0.000644379 7 1451 -99%
1921 1359 0.000582136 9 1350 -99%
1922 1327 0.00057969 10 1317 -98%
1923 1270 0.000551579 6 1264 -99%
1924 1289 0.00054123 5 1284 -99%
1925 1301 0.000557579 7 1294 -99%
1926 1209 0.00052659 7 1202 -99%
1927 1196 0.00051566 13 1183 -98%
1928 1115 0.000493158 12 1103 -98%
1929 1072 0.000489015 11 1061 -98%
1930 1087 0.000488916 9 1078 -98%
1931 1089 0.00051749 1089 -100%
1932 2763 0.001308678 9 2754 -99%
1933 5387 0.002694245 24 5363 -99%
1934 4172 0.002008844 17 4155 -99%
1935 2628 0.001257476 17 2611 -99%
1936 2958 0.001423773 19 2939 -99%
1937 2531 0.001187889 17 2514 -99%
1938 2036 0.000920195 15 2021 -99%
1939 1867 0.000847311 11 1856 -99%
1940 2402 0.00104313 11 2391 -99%
1941 2217 0.00090994 12 2205 -99%
1942 2375 0.000869384 10 2365 -99%
1943 1983 0.000702554 10 1973 -99%
1944 1822 0.000677304 5 1817 -99%
1945 1906 0.000718456 11 1895 -99%
1946 1733 0.000542358 12 1721 -99%
1947 1782 0.000494681 10 1772 -99%
1948 1556 0.000450686 5 1551 -99%
1949 1627 0.000466888 6 1621 -99%
1950 1633 0.000466124 8 1625 -99%
1951 1702 0.000462031 7 1695 -99%
1952 1729 0.000455239 7 1722 -99%
1953 1766 0.000458268 5 1761 -99%
1954 1830 0.000459717 8 1822 -99%
1955 1770 0.000440838 6 1764 -99%
1956 1806 0.000438027 13 1793 -99%
1957 1701 0.000404793 13 1688 -98%
1958 1596 0.000386076 9 1587 -99%
1959 1563 0.000375903 8 1555 -99%
1960 1546 0.000372188 11 1535 -99%
1961 1532 0.000369843 6 1526 -99%
1962 1536 0.000380634 6 1530 -99%
1963 1533 0.000387297 12 1521 -98%
1964 1512 0.000388928 12 1500 -98%
1965 1379 0.000380367 11 1368 -98%
1966 1315 0.000378346 11 1304 -98%
1967 1209 0.000356123 9 1200 -99%
1968 1195 0.000353716 13 1182 -98%
1969 1231 0.000354212 7 1224 -99%
1970 1227 0.000340218 7 1220 -99%
1971 1126 0.000328055 1126 -100%
1972 937 0.000298123 9 928 -98%
1973 954 0.00031622 10 944 -98%
1974 918 0.000301974 5 913 -99%
1975 869 0.000287806 5 864 -99%
1976 812 0.000267607 8 804 -98%
1977 872 0.000274516 12 860 -97%
1978 848 0.000267182 11 837 -97%
1979 863 0.000259393 5 858 -99%
1980 890 0.000258382 11 879 -98%
1981 814 0.000235303 814 -100%
1982 866 0.000246867 9 857 -98%
1983 742 0.000214244 742 -100%
1984 805 0.000230741 9 796 -98%
1985 820 0.000229749 8 812 -98%
1986 795 0.000223498 9 786 -98%
1987 817 0.000226591 9 808 -98%
1988 840 0.000227332 9 831 -98%
1989 905 0.000235404 7 898 -98%
1990 861 0.000217838 9 852 -98%
1991 860 0.000220781 860 -100%
1992 854 0.000222322 5 849 -99%
1993 710 0.000188315 6 704 -98%
1994 707 0.000190174 5 702 -99%
1995 662 0.000180768 662 -100%
1996 694 0.000190283 694 -100%
1997 590 0.000162725 590 -100%
1998 636 0.00017291 636 -100%
1999 573 0.000155122 573 -100%
2000 530 0.000140215 530 -100%
2001 533 0.000142384 533 -100%
2002 507 0.000135623 507 -100%
2003 539 0.000141756 539 -100%
2004 512 0.000133999 5 507 -98%
2005 567 0.00014747 567 -100%
2006 622 0.000157222 622 -100%
2007 580 0.000145084 580 -100%
2008 589 0.000149847 589 -100%
2009 511 0.000133764 511 -100%
2010 510 0.000137997 510 -100%
2011 525 0.000143529 5 520 -98%
2012 495 0.000135343 495 -100%
2013 550 0.000150864 550 -100%
2014 668 0.00018023 5 663 -99%
2015 690 0.000186441 690 -100%
2016 745 0.000203069 745 -100%
2017 717 0.000200492 7 710 -98%
2018 701 0.00019938 8 693 -98%
2019 750 0.00021608 11 739 -97%
2020 724 0.000216729 8 716 -98%
2021 807 0.000238197 6 801 -99%
2022 797 0.00023558 10 787 -97%
2023 786 0.000237376 6 780 -98%
2024 853 0.000256272 13 840 -97%

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