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How popular is “Henson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Henson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Henson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Henson” 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
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1934 8 0.000003852 8 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 -100%
2007 10 0.000002501 10 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 -100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 14 0.000003828 14 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 33 0.000008917 33 -100%
2016 29 0.000007905 29 -100%
2017 20 0.000005593 20 -100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 -100%
2019 25 0.000007203 25 -100%
2020 21 0.000006286 21 -100%
2021 24 0.000007084 24 -100%
2022 26 0.000007685 26 -100%
2023 30 0.00000906 30 -100%
2024 19 0.000005708 19 -100%

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