How popular is “Green” in the USA?

Number of people named “Green” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Green” by birth year

This chart shows how “Green” 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	Males	Bias toward female
1880	39	0.000193564	39	-100%
1881	33	0.000171261	33	-100%
1882	27	0.000121878	27	-100%
1883	33	0.000152112	33	-100%
1884	31	0.00012733	31	-100%
1885	32	0.000132861	32	-100%
1886	45	0.000176252	45	-100%
1887	31	0.000125307	31	-100%
1888	32	0.000106854	32	-100%
1889	21	0.000072678	21	-100%
1890	33	0.000109489	33	-100%
1891	18	0.000062789	18	-100%
1892	28	0.000083739	28	-100%
1893	23	0.000070721	23	-100%
1894	22	0.000064956	22	-100%
1895	17	0.00004843	17	-100%
1896	25	0.000069933	25	-100%
1897	12	0.000034586	12	-100%
1898	28	0.000073403	28	-100%
1899	19	0.000056009	19	-100%
1900	28	0.000062187	28	-100%
1901	11	0.000031809	11	-100%
1902	22	0.000056887	22	-100%
1903	17	0.000044596	17	-100%
1904	13	0.000032219	13	-100%
1905	15	0.000035384	15	-100%
1906	17	0.000039678	17	-100%
1907	10	0.000021487	10	-100%
1908	10	0.000020465	10	-100%
1909	15	0.000029341	15	-100%
1910	20	0.000033858	20	-100%
1911	15	0.000023282	15	-100%
1912	22	0.000022266	22	-100%
1913	32	0.000028142	32	-100%
1914	46	0.000032478	46	-100%
1915	37	0.000020192	37	-100%
1916	47	0.000024297	47	-100%
1917	42	0.000020929	42	-100%
1918	43	0.000019806	43	-100%
1919	42	0.000019903	42	-100%
1920	44	0.000019446	44	-100%
1921	42	0.000017991	42	-100%
1922	42	0.000018347	42	-100%
1923	38	0.000016504	38	-100%
1924	37	0.000015536	37	-100%
1925	31	0.000013286	31	-100%
1926	35	0.000015245	35	-100%
1927	48	0.000020695	48	-100%
1928	26	0.0000115	26	-100%
1929	33	0.000015054	33	-100%
1930	35	0.000015742	35	-100%
1931	24	0.000011405	24	-100%
1932	27	0.000012788	27	-100%
1933	25	0.000012503	25	-100%
1934	32	0.000015408	32	-100%
1935	19	0.000009091	19	-100%
1936	20	0.000009627	20	-100%
1937	19	0.000008917	19	-100%
1938	21	0.000009491	21	-100%
1939	21	0.000009531	21	-100%
1940	22	0.000009554	22	-100%
1941	14	0.000005746	14	-100%
1942	14	0.000005125	14	-100%
1943	26	0.000009211	26	-100%
1944	15	0.000005576	15	-100%
1945	14	0.000005277	14	-100%
1946	14	0.000004381	14	-100%
1947	9	0.000002498	9	-100%
1948	26	0.000007531	26	-100%
1949	12	0.000003444	12	-100%
1950	12	0.000003425	12	-100%
1951	14	0.0000038	14	-100%
1952	11	0.000002896	11	-100%
1953	11	0.000002854	11	-100%
1954	7	0.000001758	7	-100%
1955	10	0.000002491	10	-100%
1956	15	0.000003638	15	-100%
1957	9	0.000002142	9	-100%
1958	7	0.000001693	7	-100%
1959	12	0.000002886	12	-100%
1960	13	0.00000313	13	-100%
1961	11	0.000002656	11	-100%
1963	10	0.000002526	10	-100%
1964	5	0.000001286	5	-100%
1965	8	0.000002207	8	-100%
1966	8	0.000002302	8	-100%
1970	5	0.000001386	5	-100%
1971	9	0.000002622	9	-100%
1972	6	0.000001909	6	-100%
1973	6	0.000001989	6	-100%
1984	6	0.00000172	6	-100%

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