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How popular is “Harrison” in the USA?

Number of people named “Harrison” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Harrison” by birth year

This chart shows how “Harrison” 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 65 0.000322606 65 -100%
1881 61 0.000316574 61 -100%
1882 76 0.000343064 76 -100%
1883 61 0.000281176 61 -100%
1884 63 0.000258768 63 -100%
1885 45 0.000186835 45 -100%
1886 77 0.000301587 77 -100%
1887 99 0.000400175 99 -100%
1888 400 0.001335675 400 -100%
1889 288 0.000996726 288 -100%
1890 156 0.000517583 156 -100%
1891 106 0.000369759 106 -100%
1892 158 0.000472525 158 -100%
1893 120 0.000368978 120 -100%
1894 85 0.000250967 85 -100%
1895 81 0.000230756 81 -100%
1896 79 0.000220989 79 -100%
1897 69 0.000198872 69 -100%
1898 83 0.000217588 83 -100%
1899 54 0.000159182 54 -100%
1900 69 0.000153245 69 -100%
1901 44 0.000127237 44 -100%
1902 53 0.000137045 53 -100%
1903 47 0.000123295 47 -100%
1904 46 0.000114007 46 -100%
1905 56 0.0001321 56 -100%
1906 44 0.000102696 44 -100%
1907 55 0.00011818 55 -100%
1908 59 0.000120741 59 -100%
1909 57 0.000111497 57 -100%
1910 95 0.000160823 95 -100%
1911 82 0.000127274 82 -100%
1912 170 0.000172054 170 -100%
1913 197 0.000173246 197 -100%
1914 262 0.000184983 262 -100%
1915 313 0.000170812 313 -100%
1916 298 0.000154052 298 -100%
1917 320 0.000159462 320 -100%
1918 372 0.000171341 372 -100%
1919 322 0.000152589 322 -100%
1920 407 0.000179878 407 -100%
1921 349 0.000149496 349 -100%
1922 374 0.000163379 374 -100%
1923 366 0.000158959 5 361 -97%
1924 333 0.000139821 333 -100%
1925 349 0.000149573 349 -100%
1926 307 0.000133716 5 302 -97%
1927 293 0.000126328 293 -100%
1928 274 0.000121189 274 -100%
1929 223 0.000101726 223 -100%
1930 246 0.000110647 5 241 -96%
1931 226 0.000107395 226 -100%
1932 251 0.000118885 251 -100%
1933 233 0.000116532 233 -100%
1934 203 0.000097746 203 -100%
1935 198 0.000094741 198 -100%
1936 183 0.000088083 183 -100%
1937 211 0.00009903 211 -100%
1938 216 0.000097624 216 -100%
1939 203 0.000092129 203 -100%
1940 178 0.000077301 178 -100%
1941 177 0.000072647 177 -100%
1942 211 0.000077238 211 -100%
1943 233 0.000082549 233 -100%
1944 179 0.000066541 179 -100%
1945 226 0.000085189 226 -100%
1946 196 0.00006134 196 -100%
1947 263 0.000073008 263 -100%
1948 240 0.000069514 240 -100%
1949 232 0.000066575 232 -100%
1950 216 0.000061655 216 -100%
1951 218 0.000059179 218 -100%
1952 229 0.000060295 229 -100%
1953 219 0.000056829 219 -100%
1954 205 0.000051498 205 -100%
1955 192 0.00004782 192 -100%
1956 187 0.000045355 187 -100%
1957 204 0.000048547 204 -100%
1958 176 0.000042575 176 -100%
1959 191 0.000045936 191 -100%
1960 175 0.00004213 175 -100%
1961 140 0.000033798 140 -100%
1962 168 0.000041632 168 -100%
1963 158 0.000039917 158 -100%
1964 132 0.000033954 132 -100%
1965 117 0.000032272 117 -100%
1966 129 0.000037115 129 -100%
1967 133 0.000039176 133 -100%
1968 111 0.000032856 111 -100%
1969 118 0.000033954 118 -100%
1970 120 0.000033273 120 -100%
1971 99 0.000028843 99 -100%
1972 119 0.000037862 5 114 -92%
1973 123 0.000040771 6 117 -90%
1974 107 0.000035197 107 -100%
1975 112 0.000037094 112 -100%
1976 102 0.000033616 102 -100%
1977 78 0.000024555 78 -100%
1978 100 0.000031507 100 -100%
1979 105 0.00003156 105 -100%
1980 135 0.000039193 135 -100%
1981 139 0.000040181 139 -100%
1982 201 0.000057298 201 -100%
1983 227 0.000065544 227 -100%
1984 226 0.00006478 5 221 -96%
1985 415 0.000116275 415 -100%
1986 464 0.000130444 464 -100%
1987 598 0.000165852 6 592 -98%
1988 700 0.000189443 6 694 -98%
1989 883 0.000229682 883 -100%
1990 928 0.000234789 928 -100%
1991 982 0.000252101 982 -100%
1992 1019 0.000265277 1019 -100%
1993 1037 0.000275046 6 1031 -99%
1994 1340 0.000360442 9 1331 -99%
1995 1362 0.000371912 1362 -100%
1996 1488 0.000407985 9 1479 -99%
1997 1836 0.000506378 12 1824 -99%
1998 1913 0.00052009 10 1903 -99%
1999 1933 0.0005233 8 1925 -99%
2000 1992 0.000526997 8 1984 -99%
2001 1803 0.000481649 5 1798 -99%
2002 1866 0.000499159 1866 -100%
2003 1704 0.000448148 7 1697 -99%
2004 1743 0.000456173 14 1729 -98%
2005 1717 0.000446572 1717 -100%
2006 1571 0.000397099 11 1560 -99%
2007 1654 0.00041374 1654 -100%
2008 1742 0.000443182 7 1735 -99%
2009 1473 0.000385584 8 1465 -99%
2010 1502 0.000406414 11 1491 -99%
2011 1839 0.000502762 9 1830 -99%
2012 2140 0.00058512 15 2125 -99%
2013 2526 0.000692877 15 2511 -99%
2014 3216 0.000867694 11 3205 -99%
2015 3349 0.000904912 6 3343 -100%
2016 3670 0.001000355 8 3662 -100%
2017 3535 0.000988481 14 3521 -99%
2018 3420 0.000972725 8 3412 -100%
2019 3469 0.000999443 14 3455 -99%
2020 3230 0.000966899 9 3221 -99%
2021 3161 0.000933013 12 3149 -99%
2022 2928 0.000865469 9 2919 -99%
2023 3071 0.000927459 7 3064 -100%
2024 2969 0.000891993 11 2958 -99%

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