Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Ginger” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ginger” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ginger” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ginger” 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
1913 5 0.000004397 5 100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 100%
1915 18 0.000009823 18 100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 100%
1917 18 0.00000897 18 100%
1918 25 0.000011515 25 100%
1919 24 0.000011373 24 100%
1920 33 0.000014585 33 100%
1921 36 0.000015421 36 100%
1922 24 0.000010484 24 100%
1923 29 0.000012595 29 100%
1924 41 0.000017215 41 100%
1925 30 0.000012857 30 100%
1926 32 0.000013938 32 100%
1927 27 0.000011641 27 100%
1928 20 0.000008846 20 100%
1929 19 0.000008667 19 100%
1930 33 0.000014843 33 100%
1931 32 0.000015206 32 100%
1932 31 0.000014683 31 100%
1933 61 0.000030508 61 100%
1934 76 0.000036594 76 100%
1935 120 0.000057419 120 100%
1936 188 0.00009049 188 100%
1937 156 0.000073216 156 100%
1938 138 0.000062371 138 100%
1939 165 0.000074883 165 100%
1940 202 0.000087724 202 100%
1941 226 0.000092759 226 100%
1942 229 0.000083827 229 100%
1943 313 0.000110892 313 100%
1944 317 0.00011784 317 100%
1945 362 0.000136454 362 100%
1946 596 0.000186524 596 100%
1947 684 0.000189878 684 100%
1948 600 0.000173786 600 100%
1949 665 0.00019083 665 100%
1950 657 0.000187534 657 100%
1951 866 0.000235087 866 100%
1952 903 0.000237756 903 100%
1953 860 0.000223165 860 100%
1954 859 0.000215791 859 100%
1955 845 0.000210457 845 100%
1956 973 0.000235991 973 100%
1957 1006 0.000239402 1006 100%
1958 953 0.000230533 953 100%
1959 1091 0.000262386 1091 100%
1960 1137 0.000273724 1137 100%
1961 1083 0.000261449 1083 100%
1962 1185 0.000293653 1185 100%
1963 1224 0.000309231 1224 100%
1964 1191 0.000306358 1183 8 99%
1965 1110 0.000306169 1110 100%
1966 1148 0.000330297 1148 100%
1967 1161 0.000341984 1161 100%
1968 1196 0.000354012 1191 5 99%
1969 1276 0.00036716 1276 100%
1970 1381 0.000382918 1381 100%
1971 1670 0.000486546 1670 100%
1972 1324 0.000421254 1317 7 99%
1973 1278 0.000423615 1271 7 99%
1974 1287 0.000423355 1281 6 99%
1975 1084 0.000359012 1076 8 99%
1976 1079 0.000355601 1079 100%
1977 952 0.000299701 952 100%
1978 996 0.000313812 996 100%
1979 758 0.000227833 758 100%
1980 751 0.000218028 751 100%
1981 720 0.00020813 720 100%
1982 683 0.0001947 683 100%
1983 528 0.000152454 528 100%
1984 431 0.00012354 431 100%
1985 336 0.000094141 336 100%
1986 289 0.000081246 289 100%
1987 235 0.000065176 235 100%
1988 221 0.00005981 221 100%
1989 173 0.000045 173 100%
1990 146 0.000036939 146 100%
1991 153 0.000039278 153 100%
1992 155 0.000040351 155 100%
1993 126 0.000033419 126 100%
1994 116 0.000031202 116 100%
1995 100 0.000027306 100 100%
1996 99 0.000027144 99 100%
1997 102 0.000028132 102 100%
1998 122 0.000033168 122 100%
1999 107 0.000028967 107 100%
2000 109 0.000028837 109 100%
2001 117 0.000031255 117 100%
2002 134 0.000035845 134 100%
2003 134 0.000035242 134 100%
2004 131 0.000034285 131 100%
2005 154 0.000040054 154 100%
2006 138 0.000034882 138 100%
2007 174 0.000043525 174 100%
2008 134 0.000034091 134 100%
2009 168 0.000043977 168 100%
2010 148 0.000040046 148 100%
2011 125 0.000034174 125 100%
2012 112 0.000030623 112 100%
2013 93 0.00002551 93 100%
2014 80 0.000021584 80 100%
2015 68 0.000018374 68 100%
2016 56 0.000015264 56 100%
2017 62 0.000017337 62 100%
2018 61 0.00001735 61 100%
2019 57 0.000016422 57 100%
2020 47 0.000014069 47 100%
2021 46 0.000013578 46 100%
2022 49 0.000014484 49 100%
2023 49 0.000014798 49 100%
2024 43 0.000012919 43 100%

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