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How popular is “Graham” in the USA?

Number of people named “Graham” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Graham” by birth year

This chart shows how “Graham” 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
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1886 7 0.000027417 7 -100%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 -100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 -100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 -100%
1892 13 0.000038879 13 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 14 0.000039884 14 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 10 0.000026215 10 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 15 0.000033314 15 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1903 13 0.000034103 13 -100%
1904 12 0.000029741 12 -100%
1905 12 0.000028307 12 -100%
1906 12 0.000028008 12 -100%
1907 17 0.000036529 17 -100%
1908 18 0.000036836 18 -100%
1909 19 0.000037166 19 -100%
1910 26 0.000044015 26 -100%
1911 28 0.00004346 28 -100%
1912 48 0.00004858 48 -100%
1913 53 0.000046609 53 -100%
1914 68 0.000048011 68 -100%
1915 103 0.00005621 5 98 -90%
1916 109 0.000056348 109 -100%
1917 92 0.000045845 92 -100%
1918 85 0.00003915 85 -100%
1919 93 0.000044071 93 -100%
1920 108 0.000047732 108 -100%
1921 129 0.000055258 129 -100%
1922 105 0.000045868 105 -100%
1923 117 0.000050815 117 -100%
1924 90 0.00003779 90 -100%
1925 95 0.000040715 95 -100%
1926 101 0.000043991 101 -100%
1927 94 0.000040528 94 -100%
1928 117 0.000051748 117 -100%
1929 106 0.000048354 106 -100%
1930 102 0.000045878 102 -100%
1931 100 0.00004752 100 -100%
1932 113 0.000053522 113 -100%
1933 100 0.000050014 100 -100%
1934 110 0.000052966 110 -100%
1935 116 0.000055505 116 -100%
1936 95 0.000045726 95 -100%
1937 102 0.000047872 102 -100%
1938 112 0.00005062 112 -100%
1939 86 0.00003903 86 -100%
1940 86 0.000037348 86 -100%
1941 101 0.000041454 101 -100%
1942 100 0.000036606 100 -100%
1943 93 0.000032949 93 -100%
1944 99 0.000036802 99 -100%
1945 78 0.000029402 78 -100%
1946 100 0.000031296 100 -100%
1947 112 0.000031091 112 -100%
1948 93 0.000026937 93 -100%
1949 101 0.000028983 101 -100%
1950 97 0.000027688 97 -100%
1951 106 0.000028775 106 -100%
1952 93 0.000024487 93 -100%
1953 92 0.000023874 92 -100%
1954 92 0.000023111 92 -100%
1955 81 0.000020174 81 -100%
1956 96 0.000023284 96 -100%
1957 96 0.000022845 96 -100%
1958 107 0.000025884 107 -100%
1959 111 0.000026696 111 -100%
1960 94 0.00002263 94 -100%
1961 111 0.000026797 111 -100%
1962 108 0.000026763 108 -100%
1963 114 0.000028801 114 -100%
1964 99 0.000025466 99 -100%
1965 88 0.000024273 88 -100%
1966 103 0.000029635 103 -100%
1967 106 0.000031223 106 -100%
1968 116 0.000034336 6 110 -90%
1969 161 0.000046327 161 -100%
1970 175 0.000048523 175 -100%
1971 205 0.000059726 205 -100%
1972 194 0.000061725 194 -100%
1973 175 0.000058007 175 -100%
1974 186 0.000061184 186 -100%
1975 233 0.000077168 233 -100%
1976 248 0.000081732 248 -100%
1977 249 0.000078388 249 -100%
1978 298 0.000093892 298 -100%
1979 366 0.000110009 366 -100%
1980 451 0.000130933 6 445 -97%
1981 449 0.000129792 449 -100%
1982 474 0.000135121 474 -100%
1983 531 0.00015332 6 525 -98%
1984 518 0.000148477 518 -100%
1985 527 0.000147656 6 521 -98%
1986 564 0.000158557 564 -100%
1987 476 0.000132016 476 -100%
1988 488 0.000132069 488 -100%
1989 499 0.000129798 499 -100%
1990 592 0.000149779 5 587 -98%
1991 629 0.000161478 629 -100%
1992 571 0.000148649 571 -100%
1993 673 0.000178501 5 668 -99%
1994 589 0.000158433 589 -100%
1995 639 0.000174487 6 633 -98%
1996 577 0.000158204 577 -100%
1997 559 0.000154175 5 554 -98%
1998 606 0.000164754 6 600 -98%
1999 598 0.00016189 598 -100%
2000 618 0.000163496 618 -100%
2001 636 0.000169899 5 631 -98%
2002 625 0.000167189 6 619 -98%
2003 662 0.000174104 662 -100%
2004 623 0.00016305 6 617 -98%
2005 670 0.000174259 670 -100%
2006 649 0.000164047 649 -100%
2007 803 0.000200866 5 798 -99%
2008 1038 0.000264077 7 1031 -99%
2009 1328 0.000347628 1328 -100%
2010 1189 0.000321722 1189 -100%
2011 1363 0.000372629 7 1356 -99%
2012 1724 0.000471377 9 1715 -99%
2013 1891 0.000518698 8 1883 -99%
2014 2049 0.000552831 10 2039 -99%
2015 2388 0.000645246 10 2378 -99%
2016 2260 0.000616022 13 2247 -99%
2017 2122 0.000593368 11 2111 -99%
2018 2180 0.000620041 6 2174 -99%
2019 2163 0.000623175 7 2156 -99%
2020 2102 0.000629233 7 2095 -99%
2021 2391 0.000705737 10 2381 -99%
2022 2412 0.000712948 12 2400 -99%
2023 2553 0.00077102 16 2537 -99%
2024 2800 0.00084122 11 2789 -99%

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