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How popular is “Freedom” in the USA?

Number of people named “Freedom” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Freedom” by birth year

This chart shows how “Freedom” 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
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 14 0.000004079 8 6 14%
1972 24 0.000007636 17 7 42%
1973 26 0.000008618 17 9 31%
1974 47 0.000015461 28 19 19%
1975 73 0.000024177 48 25 32%
1976 63 0.000020763 50 13 59%
1977 51 0.000016055 37 14 45%
1978 44 0.000013863 36 8 64%
1979 56 0.000016832 49 7 75%
1980 26 0.000007548 21 5 62%
1981 29 0.000008383 16 13 10%
1982 19 0.000005416 14 5 47%
1983 13 0.000003754 13 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 5 6 -9%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 100%
1992 28 0.000007289 10 18 -29%
1993 30 0.000007957 14 16 -7%
1994 17 0.000004573 9 8 6%
1995 25 0.000006827 14 11 12%
1996 38 0.000010419 13 25 -32%
1997 20 0.000005516 9 11 -10%
1998 27 0.000007341 17 10 26%
1999 41 0.000011099 22 19 7%
2000 40 0.000010582 24 16 20%
2001 67 0.000017898 50 17 49%
2002 61 0.000016318 34 27 11%
2003 71 0.000018673 44 27 24%
2004 53 0.000013871 35 18 32%
2005 58 0.000015085 34 24 17%
2006 38 0.000009605 25 13 32%
2007 43 0.000010756 31 12 44%
2008 42 0.000010685 22 20 5%
2009 44 0.000011518 32 12 45%
2010 38 0.000010282 23 15 21%
2011 35 0.000009569 24 11 37%
2012 41 0.00001121 29 12 41%
2013 40 0.000010972 22 18 10%
2014 48 0.000012951 31 17 29%
2015 44 0.000011889 26 18 18%
2016 45 0.000012266 27 18 20%
2017 49 0.000013702 37 12 51%
2018 34 0.00000967 23 11 35%
2019 39 0.000011236 31 8 59%
2020 56 0.000016764 33 23 18%
2021 44 0.000012987 21 23 -5%
2022 29 0.000008572 19 10 31%
2023 24 0.000007248 12 12 0%
2024 24 0.00000721 10 14 -17%

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