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How popular is “Goodwin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Goodwin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Goodwin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Goodwin” 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
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 -100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 -100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 -100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 -100%
1918 18 0.000008291 18 -100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 -100%
1920 12 0.000005304 12 -100%
1921 13 0.000005569 13 -100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 -100%
1923 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 -100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 -100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 12 0.000005308 12 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 -100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 -100%

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