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How popular is “Hector” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hector” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hector” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hector” 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 15 0.000074448 15 -100%
1881 6 0.000031138 6 -100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1883 10 0.000046094 10 -100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1887 7 0.000028295 7 -100%
1888 18 0.000060105 18 -100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1891 13 0.000045348 13 -100%
1892 15 0.00004486 15 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 -100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1896 12 0.000033568 12 -100%
1897 14 0.000040351 14 -100%
1898 10 0.000026215 10 -100%
1899 12 0.000035374 12 -100%
1900 19 0.000042198 19 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 -100%
1904 17 0.000042133 17 -100%
1905 12 0.000028307 12 -100%
1906 12 0.000028008 12 -100%
1907 16 0.00003438 16 -100%
1908 15 0.000030697 15 -100%
1909 18 0.00003521 18 -100%
1910 18 0.000030472 18 -100%
1911 35 0.000054324 35 -100%
1912 51 0.000051616 51 -100%
1913 51 0.000044851 51 -100%
1914 58 0.000040951 58 -100%
1915 108 0.000058938 108 -100%
1916 91 0.000047043 91 -100%
1917 85 0.000042357 85 -100%
1918 90 0.000041453 90 -100%
1919 107 0.000050705 107 -100%
1920 119 0.000052593 119 -100%
1921 129 0.000055258 129 -100%
1922 123 0.000053732 123 -100%
1923 127 0.000055158 127 -100%
1924 139 0.000058364 139 -100%
1925 138 0.000059144 138 -100%
1926 146 0.000063591 146 -100%
1927 182 0.00007847 182 -100%
1928 186 0.000082267 186 -100%
1929 193 0.000088041 193 -100%
1930 197 0.000088608 197 -100%
1931 189 0.000089812 189 -100%
1932 172 0.000081467 172 -100%
1933 198 0.000099027 198 -100%
1934 186 0.00008956 186 -100%
1935 180 0.000086129 5 175 -94%
1936 166 0.000079901 166 -100%
1937 155 0.000072747 155 -100%
1938 183 0.000082709 183 -100%
1939 172 0.00007806 172 -100%
1940 192 0.000083381 192 -100%
1941 178 0.000073058 178 -100%
1942 193 0.000070649 193 -100%
1943 240 0.000085029 240 -100%
1944 241 0.000089588 241 -100%
1945 258 0.000097252 258 -100%
1946 300 0.000093888 300 -100%
1947 333 0.00009244 333 -100%
1948 423 0.000122519 423 -100%
1949 467 0.000134011 467 -100%
1950 473 0.000135013 473 -100%
1951 595 0.000161521 5 590 -98%
1952 600 0.000157978 600 -100%
1953 626 0.000162444 626 -100%
1954 654 0.000164292 5 649 -98%
1955 800 0.000199249 800 -100%
1956 801 0.000194274 801 -100%
1957 813 0.000193473 5 808 -99%
1958 840 0.000203198 840 -100%
1959 921 0.000221501 7 914 -98%
1960 872 0.000209928 872 -100%
1961 904 0.000218236 6 898 -99%
1962 931 0.00023071 7 924 -98%
1963 969 0.000244808 10 959 -98%
1964 952 0.000244881 8 944 -98%
1965 974 0.000268656 7 967 -99%
1966 938 0.000269877 938 -100%
1967 943 0.00027777 7 936 -99%
1968 1049 0.000310501 9 1040 -98%
1969 1133 0.000326013 6 1127 -99%
1970 1136 0.000314986 11 1125 -98%
1971 1186 0.000345535 9 1177 -98%
1972 1128 0.000358893 14 1114 -98%
1973 1203 0.000398755 8 1195 -99%
1974 1230 0.000404605 18 1212 -97%
1975 1259 0.000416971 14 1245 -98%
1976 1265 0.0004169 11 1254 -98%
1977 1152 0.000362664 8 1144 -99%
1978 1257 0.000396046 14 1243 -98%
1979 1436 0.00043162 16 1420 -98%
1980 1469 0.000426476 21 1448 -97%
1981 1416 0.000409322 6 1410 -99%
1982 1539 0.000438716 13 1526 -98%
1983 1382 0.000399037 13 1369 -98%
1984 1352 0.000387531 16 1336 -98%
1985 1506 0.000421954 14 1492 -98%
1986 1490 0.000418883 18 1472 -98%
1987 1611 0.000446803 19 1592 -98%
1988 1674 0.000453039 18 1656 -98%
1989 1817 0.00047263 11 1806 -99%
1990 2002 0.000506518 12 1990 -99%
1991 2052 0.000526793 16 2036 -98%
1992 2031 0.000528731 13 2018 -99%
1993 2050 0.000543726 18 2032 -98%
1994 1990 0.000535284 18 1972 -98%
1995 1888 0.000515543 11 1877 -99%
1996 1978 0.000542335 12 1966 -99%
1997 1870 0.000515755 1870 -100%
1998 1815 0.000493447 1815 -100%
1999 1920 0.000519781 5 1915 -99%
2000 1979 0.000523558 1979 -100%
2001 1910 0.000510233 5 1905 -99%
2002 1942 0.000519489 1942 -100%
2003 1998 0.000525469 1998 -100%
2004 2009 0.000525789 5 2004 -100%
2005 2458 0.000639298 2458 -100%
2006 2327 0.000588192 2327 -100%
2007 2243 0.000561075 2243 -100%
2008 2186 0.00055614 7 2179 -99%
2009 1845 0.000482962 1845 -100%
2010 1562 0.000422649 1562 -100%
2011 1414 0.000386572 1414 -100%
2012 1325 0.000362282 1325 -100%
2013 1257 0.000344793 1257 -100%
2014 1213 0.000327274 1213 -100%
2015 1194 0.000322623 1194 -100%
2016 1100 0.000299834 1100 -100%
2017 1074 0.000300319 1074 -100%
2018 1012 0.000287836 1012 -100%
2019 985 0.000283785 985 -100%
2020 856 0.000256243 856 -100%
2021 899 0.000265352 899 -100%
2022 927 0.000274006 927 -100%
2023 831 0.000250967 831 -100%
2024 858 0.000257774 858 -100%

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