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How popular is “Hannah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hannah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hannah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hannah” 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
1880 221 0.001096861 221 100%
1881 196 0.001017188 196 100%
1882 214 0.000965996 214 100%
1883 209 0.000963373 209 100%
1884 275 0.001129544 275 100%
1885 236 0.000979847 236 100%
1886 254 0.000994846 254 100%
1887 279 0.001127765 279 100%
1888 295 0.00098506 295 100%
1889 301 0.001041717 301 100%
1890 267 0.000885863 267 100%
1891 293 0.00102207 293 100%
1892 326 0.000974956 326 100%
1893 304 0.000934743 304 100%
1894 293 0.000865098 293 100%
1895 301 0.000857501 301 100%
1896 323 0.000903537 323 100%
1897 288 0.000830074 288 100%
1898 338 0.000886081 338 100%
1899 288 0.000848971 288 100%
1900 325 0.000721808 325 100%
1901 266 0.000769204 266 100%
1902 271 0.000700742 271 100%
1903 250 0.000655824 250 100%
1904 261 0.000646864 261 100%
1905 219 0.000516604 219 100%
1906 256 0.000597501 256 100%
1907 239 0.000513548 239 100%
1908 240 0.00049115 240 100%
1909 278 0.000543793 278 100%
1910 305 0.000516327 305 100%
1911 279 0.000433043 279 100%
1912 359 0.000363338 359 100%
1913 396 0.000348251 396 100%
1914 443 0.000312777 443 100%
1915 546 0.000297966 546 100%
1916 549 0.000283806 549 100%
1917 541 0.00026959 541 100%
1918 513 0.000236285 513 100%
1919 539 0.000255421 534 5 98%
1920 471 0.000208164 471 100%
1921 496 0.000212465 496 100%
1922 412 0.000179979 412 100%
1923 434 0.000188492 434 100%
1924 381 0.000159976 381 100%
1925 381 0.000163288 381 100%
1926 360 0.000156801 360 100%
1927 348 0.000150042 348 100%
1928 273 0.000120746 273 100%
1929 255 0.000116324 255 100%
1930 251 0.000112896 251 100%
1931 213 0.000101217 213 100%
1932 231 0.000109412 231 100%
1933 202 0.000101028 202 100%
1934 239 0.00011508 239 100%
1935 208 0.000099526 208 100%
1936 174 0.000083751 174 100%
1937 199 0.000093398 199 100%
1938 197 0.000089037 197 100%
1939 212 0.000096213 212 100%
1940 188 0.000081644 188 100%
1941 180 0.000073879 180 100%
1942 214 0.000078336 214 100%
1943 195 0.000069086 195 100%
1944 166 0.000061708 166 100%
1945 153 0.000057673 153 100%
1946 144 0.000045066 144 100%
1947 184 0.000051078 184 100%
1948 183 0.000053005 183 100%
1949 170 0.000048784 170 100%
1950 165 0.000047098 165 100%
1951 165 0.000044791 165 100%
1952 151 0.000039758 151 100%
1953 154 0.000039962 154 100%
1954 153 0.000038435 153 100%
1955 135 0.000033623 135 100%
1956 141 0.000034198 141 100%
1957 123 0.000029271 123 100%
1958 124 0.000029996 124 100%
1959 136 0.000032708 136 100%
1960 133 0.000032019 133 100%
1961 150 0.000036212 150 100%
1962 142 0.000035189 142 100%
1963 146 0.000036885 146 100%
1964 136 0.000034983 136 100%
1965 123 0.000033927 123 100%
1966 133 0.000038266 133 100%
1967 122 0.000035936 122 100%
1968 142 0.000042032 142 100%
1969 142 0.00004086 142 100%
1970 172 0.000047691 172 100%
1971 179 0.000052151 179 100%
1972 251 0.00007986 251 100%
1973 301 0.000099772 301 100%
1974 326 0.000107237 326 100%
1975 446 0.000147712 446 100%
1976 536 0.000176647 536 100%
1977 632 0.000198961 632 100%
1978 735 0.000231578 735 100%
1979 976 0.000293357 970 6 99%
1980 1228 0.00035651 1221 7 99%
1981 1414 0.000408744 1414 100%
1982 1588 0.000452685 1581 7 99%
1983 2410 0.00069586 2398 12 99%
1984 2280 0.000653528 2266 14 99%
1985 2457 0.000688407 2449 8 99%
1986 3400 0.000955841 3388 12 99%
1987 4620 0.001281335 4594 26 99%
1988 5584 0.001511214 5562 22 99%
1989 7876 0.002048669 7830 46 99%
1990 10311 0.002608743 10282 29 99%
1991 10792 0.002770543 10769 23 100%
1992 11507 0.002995621 11495 12 100%
1993 12528 0.003322831 12509 19 100%
1994 14513 0.003903807 14495 18 100%
1995 17040 0.004652998 17018 22 100%
1996 18617 0.005104471 18596 21 100%
1997 20614 0.005685446 20596 18 100%
1998 21396 0.005816964 21375 21 100%
1999 21705 0.005875956 21679 26 100%
2000 23112 0.006114441 23087 25 100%
2001 20745 0.005541768 20723 22 100%
2002 18853 0.005043214 18827 26 100%
2003 17662 0.00464506 17638 24 100%
2004 15716 0.004113142 15613 103 99%
2005 14866 0.003866476 14853 13 100%
2006 14567 0.003682079 14554 13 100%
2007 13339 0.003336683 13322 17 100%
2008 9587 0.002439027 9575 12 100%
2009 7596 0.001988391 7583 13 100%
2010 7006 0.001895697 6998 8 100%
2011 6590 0.001801633 6584 6 100%
2012 7298 0.001995425 7291 7 100%
2013 7315 0.002006492 7306 9 100%
2014 6598 0.001780176 6593 5 100%
2015 6441 0.001740382 6432 9 100%
2016 6036 0.00164527 6036 100%
2017 5938 0.001660424 5932 6 100%
2018 5685 0.001616942 5680 5 100%
2019 5647 0.00162694 5641 6 100%
2020 4972 0.001488366 4966 6 100%
2021 4593 0.001355688 4588 5 100%
2022 4495 0.001328649 4488 7 100%
2023 4117 0.001243357 4117 100%
2024 4054 0.001217966 4054 100%

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