How popular is “Hennessy” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Hennessy” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Hennessy” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1991	5	0.000001284	5		100%
1993	6	0.000001591	6		100%
1994	7	0.000001883	7		100%
1995	20	0.000005461	20		100%
1996	20	0.000005484	13	7	30%
1997	24	0.000006619	17	7	42%
1998	30	0.000008156	23	7	53%
1999	34	0.000009204	29	5	71%
2000	34	0.000008995	34		100%
2001	47	0.000012555	41	6	74%
2002	39	0.000010433	39		100%
2003	49	0.000012887	49		100%
2004	54	0.000014133	54		100%
2005	62	0.000016125	62		100%
2006	74	0.000018705	74		100%
2007	64	0.000016009	57	7	78%
2008	70	0.000017809	70		100%
2009	78	0.000020418	78		100%
2010	71	0.000019211	71		100%
2011	62	0.00001695	62		100%
2012	57	0.000015585	57		100%
2013	62	0.000017006	62		100%
2014	49	0.00001322	49		100%
2015	43	0.000011619	38	5	77%
2016	50	0.000013629	44	6	76%
2017	45	0.000012583	45		100%
2018	80	0.000022754	74	6	85%
2019	82	0.000023625	82		100%
2020	53	0.000015866	53		100%
2021	67	0.000019776	67		100%
2022	66	0.000019509	66		100%
2023	39	0.000011778	39		100%
2024	50	0.000015022	44	6	76%

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