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How popular is “Harold” in the USA?

Number of people named “Harold” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Harold” by birth year

This chart shows how “Harold” 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 113 0.000560839 113 -100%
1881 120 0.000622768 120 -100%
1882 127 0.000573278 127 -100%
1883 108 0.00049782 108 -100%
1884 191 0.00078452 191 -100%
1885 201 0.00083453 201 -100%
1886 224 0.000877344 224 -100%
1887 279 0.001127765 279 -100%
1888 298 0.000995078 298 -100%
1889 340 0.00117669 340 -100%
1890 408 0.001353678 408 -100%
1891 419 0.001461596 419 -100%
1892 583 0.001743557 583 -100%
1893 572 0.001758793 6 566 -98%
1894 690 0.002037261 690 -100%
1895 762 0.002170817 9 753 -98%
1896 868 0.002428081 6 862 -99%
1897 868 0.002501751 8 860 -98%
1898 963 0.002524544 963 -100%
1899 919 0.002709045 5 914 -99%
1900 1252 0.002780628 7 1245 -99%
1901 915 0.002645946 915 -100%
1902 1083 0.002800382 6 1077 -99%
1903 1065 0.002793809 1065 -100%
1904 1186 0.00293939 1186 -100%
1905 1266 0.002986399 8 1258 -99%
1906 1337 0.003120543 7 1330 -99%
1907 1459 0.003135005 7 1452 -99%
1908 1551 0.003174057 9 1542 -99%
1909 1735 0.003393816 10 1725 -99%
1910 1921 0.003252013 12 1909 -99%
1911 2459 0.003816675 11 2448 -99%
1912 5122 0.005183885 20 5102 -99%
1913 6182 0.005436589 25 6157 -99%
1914 7601 0.005366634 38 7563 -99%
1915 10488 0.00572356 44 10444 -99%
1916 10733 0.005548442 35 10698 -99%
1917 11255 0.005608571 61 11194 -99%
1918 12235 0.005635364 50 12185 -99%
1919 12092 0.00573014 71 12021 -99%
1920 13744 0.006074312 66 13678 -99%
1921 13886 0.005948156 75 13811 -99%
1922 13655 0.005965081 62 13593 -99%
1923 13932 0.006050864 58 13874 -99%
1924 14230 0.00597495 81 14149 -99%
1925 13683 0.005864222 86 13597 -99%
1926 13402 0.00583735 91 13311 -99%
1927 13325 0.005745124 99 13226 -99%
1928 12760 0.005643675 91 12669 -99%
1929 11775 0.005371412 98 11677 -98%
1930 11729 0.00527552 68 11661 -99%
1931 10758 0.005112175 64 10694 -99%
1932 10494 0.004970419 61 10433 -99%
1933 9583 0.004792825 40 9543 -99%
1934 9963 0.004797247 37 9926 -99%
1935 9212 0.004407866 42 9170 -99%
1936 8657 0.004166871 28 8629 -99%
1937 8587 0.004030188 36 8551 -99%
1938 8590 0.003882356 30 8560 -99%
1939 8325 0.00377818 25 8300 -99%
1940 8113 0.003523278 35 8078 -99%
1941 8138 0.00334014 35 8103 -99%
1942 8608 0.003151015 26 8582 -99%
1943 8696 0.003080892 25 8671 -99%
1944 8008 0.002976864 28 7980 -99%
1945 7548 0.002845178 23 7525 -99%
1946 8408 0.002631359 35 8373 -99%
1947 8929 0.002478679 25 8904 -99%
1948 8168 0.00236581 24 8144 -99%
1949 7837 0.002248925 20 7817 -99%
1950 7237 0.002065732 22 7215 -99%
1951 7193 0.001952636 15 7178 -100%
1952 6975 0.00183649 19 6956 -99%
1953 6606 0.001714222 25 6581 -99%
1954 6381 0.001602981 23 6358 -99%
1955 6124 0.00152525 29 6095 -99%
1956 5980 0.001450387 24 5956 -99%
1957 5779 0.001375251 28 5751 -99%
1958 5162 0.001248699 15 5147 -99%
1959 4967 0.001194567 23 4944 -99%
1960 4706 0.001132934 27 4679 -99%
1961 4468 0.001078628 23 4445 -99%
1962 4249 0.001052939 14 4235 -99%
1963 4108 0.001037846 16 4092 -99%
1964 3887 0.000999844 13 3874 -99%
1965 3568 0.000984154 29 3539 -98%
1966 3337 0.000960107 15 3322 -99%
1967 2975 0.000876315 19 2956 -99%
1968 2854 0.000844775 19 2835 -99%
1969 2783 0.000800789 19 2764 -99%
1970 2745 0.000761123 20 2725 -99%
1971 2412 0.000702725 24 2388 -98%
1972 2056 0.000654153 21 2035 -98%
1973 1821 0.000603602 8 1813 -99%
1974 1689 0.000555592 12 1677 -99%
1975 1605 0.000531564 18 1587 -98%
1976 1455 0.000479518 15 1440 -98%
1977 1451 0.000456793 15 1436 -98%
1978 1255 0.000395416 13 1242 -98%
1979 1256 0.000377517 9 1247 -99%
1980 1202 0.000348962 12 1190 -98%
1981 1115 0.000322313 14 1101 -97%
1982 1055 0.000300744 12 1043 -98%
1983 947 0.000273436 7 940 -99%
1984 866 0.000248226 5 861 -99%
1985 869 0.000243478 12 857 -97%
1986 812 0.000228277 9 803 -98%
1987 813 0.000225482 8 805 -98%
1988 811 0.000219483 9 802 -98%
1989 789 0.000205231 6 783 -98%
1990 771 0.000195067 771 -100%
1991 683 0.000175341 683 -100%
1992 671 0.000174682 7 664 -98%
1993 602 0.00015967 602 -100%
1994 517 0.000139066 517 -100%
1995 519 0.00014172 519 -100%
1996 508 0.000139285 508 -100%
1997 434 0.000119699 434 -100%
1998 407 0.000110652 407 -100%
1999 413 0.000111807 413 -100%
2000 406 0.00010741 406 -100%
2001 377 0.000100711 377 -100%
2002 363 0.000097103 363 -100%
2003 343 0.000090208 343 -100%
2004 356 0.000093171 6 350 -97%
2005 349 0.000090771 349 -100%
2006 356 0.000089986 356 -100%
2007 350 0.000087551 350 -100%
2008 311 0.000079121 311 -100%
2009 266 0.00006963 266 -100%
2010 305 0.000082527 305 -100%
2011 256 0.000069988 256 -100%
2012 261 0.000071363 261 -100%
2013 234 0.000064186 234 -100%
2014 272 0.000073387 272 -100%
2015 283 0.000076468 283 -100%
2016 288 0.000078502 288 -100%
2017 286 0.000079973 286 -100%
2018 284 0.000080776 284 -100%
2019 279 0.000080382 279 -100%
2020 238 0.000071245 238 -100%
2021 235 0.000069364 235 -100%
2022 250 0.000073896 250 -100%
2023 250 0.000075501 250 -100%
2024 227 0.000068199 227 -100%

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