Name Trends

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How popular is “Fred” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fred” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Fred” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fred” 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 1578 0.007831887 9 1569 -99%
1881 1427 0.007405754 9 1418 -99%
1882 1650 0.0074481 9 1641 -99%
1883 1512 0.006969476 10 1502 -99%
1884 1648 0.006769051 10 1638 -99%
1885 1570 0.006518472 8 1562 -99%
1886 1608 0.006298078 9 1599 -99%
1887 1465 0.005921776 11 1454 -98%
1888 1680 0.005609836 15 1665 -98%
1889 1568 0.00542662 14 1554 -98%
1890 1520 0.005043115 14 1506 -98%
1891 1375 0.004796406 13 1362 -98%
1892 1641 0.004907678 13 1628 -98%
1893 1502 0.00461837 9 1493 -99%
1894 1485 0.00438454 10 1475 -99%
1895 1498 0.004267563 15 1483 -98%
1896 1408 0.003938638 15 1393 -98%
1897 1315 0.003790095 14 1301 -98%
1898 1459 0.003824829 12 1447 -98%
1899 1192 0.003513799 10 1182 -98%
1900 1660 0.003686775 14 1646 -98%
1901 1147 0.003316831 14 1133 -98%
1902 1295 0.003348564 9 1286 -99%
1903 1211 0.00317681 7 1204 -99%
1904 1234 0.003058354 11 1223 -98%
1905 1289 0.003040654 5 1284 -99%
1906 1201 0.002803121 8 1193 -99%
1907 1380 0.002965255 9 1371 -99%
1908 1390 0.002844578 9 1381 -99%
1909 1362 0.002664194 7 1355 -99%
1910 1595 0.002700136 8 1587 -99%
1911 1824 0.002831076 16 1808 -98%
1912 3115 0.003152636 12 3103 -99%
1913 3643 0.003203736 19 3624 -99%
1914 4472 0.003157425 31 4441 -99%
1915 5816 0.003173935 38 5778 -99%
1916 5783 0.002989531 38 5745 -99%
1917 6032 0.003005855 46 5986 -98%
1918 6235 0.002871802 53 6182 -98%
1919 6148 0.002913406 57 6091 -98%
1920 6345 0.002804243 47 6298 -99%
1921 6540 0.00280145 44 6496 -99%
1922 6292 0.002748611 47 6245 -99%
1923 6355 0.002760066 41 6314 -99%
1924 6566 0.002756959 34 6532 -99%
1925 6242 0.002675179 37 6205 -99%
1926 6495 0.00282895 48 6447 -99%
1927 6370 0.00274645 57 6313 -98%
1928 6100 0.002697995 64 6036 -98%
1929 5911 0.002696426 54 5857 -98%
1930 6100 0.002743684 52 6048 -98%
1931 5740 0.002727634 42 5698 -99%
1932 5554 0.002630618 29 5525 -99%
1933 5323 0.002662236 36 5287 -99%
1934 5495 0.002645877 30 5465 -99%
1935 5525 0.002643667 32 5493 -99%
1936 5635 0.002712293 33 5602 -99%
1937 5764 0.002705252 26 5738 -99%
1938 5797 0.002620025 29 5768 -99%
1939 5561 0.002523779 23 5538 -99%
1940 5613 0.002437589 31 5582 -99%
1941 5643 0.002316098 25 5618 -99%
1942 6113 0.002237704 25 6088 -99%
1943 6192 0.002193754 24 6168 -99%
1944 5597 0.002080608 17 5580 -99%
1945 5128 0.001932972 10 5118 -100%
1946 6040 0.001890272 28 6012 -99%
1947 6409 0.00177913 17 6392 -99%
1948 5392 0.001561759 16 5376 -99%
1949 4745 0.001361637 14 4731 -99%
1950 4209 0.001201419 14 4195 -99%
1951 4006 0.001087482 12 3994 -99%
1952 3979 0.001047655 19 3960 -99%
1953 3802 0.000986599 12 3790 -99%
1954 3705 0.000930739 10 3695 -99%
1955 3516 0.000875699 15 3501 -99%
1956 3588 0.000870232 10 3578 -99%
1957 3656 0.000870032 20 3636 -99%
1958 3533 0.00085464 17 3516 -99%
1959 3591 0.000863638 10 3581 -99%
1960 3411 0.000821173 14 3397 -99%
1961 3102 0.000748859 12 3090 -99%
1962 2868 0.000710715 14 2854 -99%
1963 2540 0.000641706 15 2525 -99%
1964 2473 0.000636124 8 2465 -99%
1965 2153 0.000593857 6 2147 -99%
1966 1887 0.000542919 8 1879 -99%
1967 1706 0.000502519 18 1688 -98%
1968 1582 0.000468267 12 1570 -98%
1969 1591 0.000457799 16 1575 -98%
1970 1510 0.000418687 7 1503 -99%
1971 1294 0.000377001 13 1281 -98%
1972 1045 0.000332486 6 1039 -99%
1973 1034 0.000342737 13 1021 -97%
1974 896 0.000294737 6 890 -99%
1975 845 0.000279857 5 840 -99%
1976 804 0.00026497 5 799 -99%
1977 756 0.000237998 9 747 -98%
1978 699 0.000220236 5 694 -99%
1979 617 0.000185452 5 612 -98%
1980 592 0.000171868 7 585 -98%
1981 590 0.000170551 8 582 -97%
1982 560 0.000159637 6 554 -98%
1983 546 0.000157651 546 -100%
1984 463 0.000132712 14 449 -94%
1985 463 0.000129724 463 -100%
1986 443 0.00012454 443 -100%
1987 380 0.000105391 380 -100%
1988 392 0.000106088 392 -100%
1989 422 0.000109769 6 416 -97%
1990 385 0.000097407 385 -100%
1991 368 0.000094474 368 -100%
1992 316 0.000082264 316 -100%
1993 314 0.000083283 314 -100%
1994 256 0.000068861 256 -100%
1995 245 0.000066901 245 -100%
1996 257 0.000070465 257 -100%
1997 221 0.000060953 221 -100%
1998 217 0.000058996 217 -100%
1999 200 0.000054144 200 -100%
2000 157 0.000041535 157 -100%
2001 182 0.000048619 182 -100%
2002 187 0.000050023 187 -100%
2003 152 0.000039976 152 -100%
2004 161 0.000042136 161 -100%
2005 148 0.000038493 148 -100%
2006 175 0.000044234 175 -100%
2007 143 0.000035771 143 -100%
2008 133 0.000033837 133 -100%
2009 121 0.000031674 121 -100%
2010 107 0.000028952 107 -100%
2011 105 0.000028706 105 -100%
2012 106 0.000028983 106 -100%
2013 102 0.000027978 102 -100%
2014 111 0.000029948 111 -100%
2015 101 0.000027291 101 -100%
2016 108 0.000029438 108 -100%
2017 105 0.000029361 105 -100%
2018 99 0.000028158 99 -100%
2019 98 0.000028234 98 -100%
2020 83 0.000024846 83 -100%
2021 98 0.000028926 98 -100%
2022 83 0.000024533 83 -100%
2023 98 0.000029597 98 -100%
2024 99 0.000029743 99 -100%

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