How popular is “Harper” in the USA?

Number of people named “Harper” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Harper” by birth year

This chart shows how “Harper” 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	9	0.000046708		9	-100%
1882	5	0.00002257		5	-100%
1883	10	0.000046094		10	-100%
1884	7	0.000028752		7	-100%
1885	9	0.000037367		9	-100%
1886	7	0.000027417		7	-100%
1888	5	0.000016696		5	-100%
1890	6	0.000019907		6	-100%
1891	6	0.00002093		6	-100%
1892	5	0.000014953		5	-100%
1895	12	0.000034186		12	-100%
1896	6	0.000016784		6	-100%
1897	6	0.000017293		6	-100%
1898	7	0.000018351		7	-100%
1899	8	0.000023583		8	-100%
1900	7	0.000015547		7	-100%
1905	13	0.000030666		13	-100%
1906	11	0.000025674		11	-100%
1907	5	0.000010744		5	-100%
1908	6	0.000012279		6	-100%
1910	6	0.000010157		6	-100%
1912	18	0.000018217		18	-100%
1913	16	0.000014071		16	-100%
1914	20	0.000014121		20	-100%
1915	27	0.000014735		27	-100%
1916	17	0.000008788		17	-100%
1917	21	0.000010465		21	-100%
1918	17	0.00000783		17	-100%
1919	16	0.000007582		16	-100%
1920	28	0.000012375		28	-100%
1921	23	0.000009852		23	-100%
1922	31	0.000013542		31	-100%
1923	13	0.000005646		13	-100%
1924	29	0.000012177		29	-100%
1925	21	0.000009		21	-100%
1926	24	0.000010453		24	-100%
1927	22	0.000009485		22	-100%
1928	18	0.000007961		18	-100%
1929	16	0.000007299		16	-100%
1930	21	0.000009445		21	-100%
1931	11	0.000005227		11	-100%
1932	16	0.000007578		16	-100%
1933	11	0.000005502		11	-100%
1934	15	0.000007223		15	-100%
1935	12	0.000005742		12	-100%
1936	12	0.000005776		12	-100%
1937	12	0.000005632		12	-100%
1938	18	0.000008135		18	-100%
1939	15	0.000006808		15	-100%
1940	10	0.000004343		10	-100%
1941	13	0.000005336		13	-100%
1942	14	0.000005125		14	-100%
1943	7	0.00000248		7	-100%
1944	15	0.000005576		15	-100%
1945	8	0.000003016		8	-100%
1946	9	0.000002817		9	-100%
1947	12	0.000003331		12	-100%
1948	16	0.000004634		16	-100%
1949	11	0.000003157		11	-100%
1950	12	0.000003425		12	-100%
1951	12	0.000003258		12	-100%
1952	13	0.000003423		13	-100%
1953	5	0.000001297		5	-100%
1954	9	0.000002261		9	-100%
1955	10	0.000002491		10	-100%
1956	17	0.000004123		17	-100%
1957	6	0.000001428		6	-100%
1958	7	0.000001693		7	-100%
1959	14	0.000003367		14	-100%
1960	6	0.000001444		6	-100%
1961	7	0.00000169		7	-100%
1963	6	0.000001516		6	-100%
1964	7	0.000001801		7	-100%
1965	7	0.000001931		7	-100%
1966	8	0.000002302		8	-100%
1967	5	0.000001473		5	-100%
1968	13	0.000003848		13	-100%
1969	9	0.00000259		9	-100%
1970	12	0.000003327		12	-100%
1971	22	0.00000641	5	17	-55%
1972	8	0.000002545		8	-100%
1973	10	0.000003315		10	-100%
1974	14	0.000004605	9	5	29%
1975	14	0.000004637	7	7	0%
1976	17	0.000005603	9	8	6%
1977	14	0.000004407	5	9	-29%
1978	18	0.000005671	9	9	0%
1979	5	0.000001503		5	-100%
1980	16	0.000004645	6	10	-25%
1981	16	0.000004625	8	8	0%
1982	16	0.000004561	7	9	-13%
1983	15	0.000004331	5	10	-33%
1984	13	0.000003726	5	8	-23%
1985	26	0.000007285	13	13	0%
1986	16	0.000004498	8	8	0%
1987	14	0.000003883	8	6	14%
1988	23	0.000006225	12	11	4%
1989	23	0.000005983	11	12	-4%
1990	23	0.000005819	12	11	4%
1991	36	0.000009242	22	14	22%
1992	38	0.000009893	21	17	11%
1993	37	0.000009814	23	14	24%
1994	45	0.000012104	34	11	51%
1995	72	0.000019661	53	19	47%
1996	146	0.000040031	107	39	47%
1997	115	0.000031718	86	29	50%
1998	132	0.000035887	93	39	41%
1999	156	0.000042232	112	44	44%
2000	183	0.000048414	136	47	49%
2001	234	0.00006251	176	58	50%
2002	237	0.000063398	164	73	38%
2003	272	0.000071535	200	72	47%
2004	351	0.000091863	274	77	56%
2005	502	0.000130564	363	139	45%
2006	792	0.000200193	597	195	51%
2007	960	0.000240139	729	231	52%
2008	1376	0.000350068	1128	248	64%
2009	2219	0.000580863	1903	316	72%
2010	2975	0.000804981	2634	341	77%
2011	5078	0.001388269	4676	402	84%
2012	7615	0.002082099	7199	416	89%
2013	8650	0.00237268	8284	366	92%
2014	9944	0.002682944	9616	328	93%
2015	10651	0.002877939	10310	341	94%
2016	11101	0.003025869	10802	299	95%
2017	10807	0.003021927	10521	286	95%
2018	10858	0.003088259	10644	214	96%
2019	10696	0.003081592	10494	202	96%
2020	8997	0.002693247	8848	149	97%
2021	8590	0.002535457	8441	149	97%
2022	8362	0.002471672	8223	139	97%
2023	7919	0.002391583	7792	127	97%
2024	7461	0.00224155	7370	91	98%

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