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How popular is “Harvard” in the USA?

Number of people named “Harvard” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Harvard” by birth year

This chart shows how “Harvard” 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
1912 16 0.000016193 16 -100%
1913 21 0.000018468 21 -100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 27 0.000014735 27 -100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 -100%
1917 16 0.000007973 16 -100%
1918 19 0.000008751 19 -100%
1919 17 0.000008056 17 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 17 0.000007282 17 -100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 -100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1924 16 0.000006718 16 -100%
1925 13 0.000005572 13 -100%
1926 15 0.000006533 15 -100%
1927 13 0.000005605 13 -100%
1928 13 0.00000575 13 -100%
1929 20 0.000009123 20 -100%
1930 17 0.000007646 17 -100%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 -100%
1932 12 0.000005684 12 -100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 -100%
1934 13 0.00000626 13 -100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 -100%
1936 13 0.000006257 13 -100%
1937 16 0.000007509 16 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 13 0.0000059 13 -100%
1940 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1941 8 0.000003283 8 -100%
1942 10 0.000003661 10 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 -100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 -100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 -100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 -100%

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