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How popular is “Herald” in the USA?

Number of people named “Herald” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Herald” by birth year

This chart shows how “Herald” 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
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 16 0.000014071 16 -100%
1914 14 0.000009885 14 -100%
1915 20 0.000010914 20 -100%
1916 24 0.000012407 24 -100%
1917 31 0.000015448 31 -100%
1918 31 0.000014278 31 -100%
1919 18 0.00000853 18 -100%
1920 33 0.000014585 33 -100%
1921 22 0.000009424 22 -100%
1922 33 0.000014416 33 -100%
1923 23 0.000009989 23 -100%
1924 27 0.000011337 27 -100%
1925 28 0.000012 28 -100%
1926 38 0.000016551 38 -100%
1927 26 0.00001121 26 -100%
1928 25 0.000011057 25 -100%
1929 21 0.00000958 21 -100%
1930 27 0.000012144 27 -100%
1931 24 0.000011405 24 -100%
1932 20 0.000009473 20 -100%
1933 22 0.000011003 22 -100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 -100%
1935 25 0.000011962 25 -100%
1936 15 0.00000722 15 -100%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 -100%
1938 21 0.000009491 21 -100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 -100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 -100%
1941 8 0.000003283 8 -100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 -100%
1943 17 0.000006023 17 -100%
1944 15 0.000005576 15 -100%
1946 13 0.000004068 13 -100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 -100%
1948 13 0.000003765 13 -100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 -100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 -100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 -100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 -100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 -100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 -100%

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