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How popular is “Grier” in the USA?

Number of people named “Grier” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Grier” by birth year

This chart shows how “Grier” 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
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1974 12 0.000003947 12 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 12 0.00000329 5 7 -17%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 6 5 9%
2006 22 0.000005561 12 10 9%
2007 33 0.000008255 33 100%
2008 38 0.000009668 32 6 68%
2009 43 0.000011256 33 10 53%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 100%
2011 24 0.000006561 14 10 17%
2012 24 0.000006562 18 6 50%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 100%
2014 20 0.000005396 15 5 50%
2015 22 0.000005944 10 12 -9%
2016 34 0.000009268 23 11 35%
2017 24 0.000006711 15 9 25%
2018 24 0.000006826 18 6 50%
2019 33 0.000009508 19 14 15%
2020 21 0.000006286 21 100%
2021 25 0.000007379 18 7 44%
2022 22 0.000006503 14 8 27%
2023 29 0.000008758 18 11 24%
2024 26 0.000007811 18 8 38%

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