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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Herbert” in the USA?

Number of people named “Herbert” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Herbert” by birth year

This chart shows how “Herbert” 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 424 0.002104386 424 -100%
1881 369 0.001915013 369 -100%
1882 431 0.001945534 431 -100%
1883 422 0.001945185 422 -100%
1884 421 0.00172923 421 -100%
1885 388 0.001610934 388 -100%
1886 400 0.001566686 400 -100%
1887 445 0.001798765 445 -100%
1888 485 0.001619506 485 -100%
1889 472 0.001633523 472 -100%
1890 467 0.001549431 467 -100%
1891 501 0.001747636 501 -100%
1892 513 0.00153421 513 -100%
1893 519 0.001595828 519 -100%
1894 590 0.001742006 5 585 -98%
1895 569 0.00162099 569 -100%
1896 635 0.001776303 635 -100%
1897 570 0.001642855 5 565 -98%
1898 716 0.001877023 716 -100%
1899 590 0.001739212 590 -100%
1900 751 0.001667933 751 -100%
1901 573 0.00165697 573 -100%
1902 615 0.001590244 615 -100%
1903 668 0.001752361 668 -100%
1904 680 0.001685317 680 -100%
1905 688 0.00162294 7 681 -98%
1906 694 0.001619788 5 689 -99%
1907 710 0.001525602 710 -100%
1908 765 0.001565541 6 759 -98%
1909 831 0.001625511 831 -100%
1910 886 0.001499887 886 -100%
1911 1135 0.001761662 10 1125 -98%
1912 2248 0.002275161 12 2236 -99%
1913 2733 0.002403461 10 2723 -99%
1914 3267 0.002306643 14 3253 -99%
1915 4359 0.002378814 18 4341 -99%
1916 4479 0.002315426 16 4463 -99%
1917 4767 0.002375483 22 4745 -99%
1918 5148 0.002371136 20 5128 -99%
1919 4981 0.002360389 21 4960 -99%
1920 5268 0.002328251 19 5249 -99%
1921 5238 0.00224373 21 5217 -99%
1922 5066 0.002213043 19 5047 -99%
1923 5091 0.002211093 20 5071 -99%
1924 5149 0.002161983 28 5121 -99%
1925 4956 0.002124029 32 4924 -99%
1926 4980 0.002169079 41 4939 -98%
1927 5056 0.002179914 39 5017 -98%
1928 8113 0.003588334 48 8065 -99%
1929 7929 0.003616979 48 7881 -99%
1930 5722 0.002573666 47 5675 -98%
1931 4824 0.002292353 36 4788 -99%
1932 4399 0.002083559 31 4368 -99%
1933 3706 0.001853512 21 3685 -99%
1934 3612 0.001739201 11 3601 -99%
1935 3454 0.001652711 18 3436 -99%
1936 3136 0.00150945 19 3117 -99%
1937 3053 0.001432883 13 3040 -99%
1938 3029 0.001368994 15 3014 -99%
1939 3115 0.001413697 18 3097 -99%
1940 2891 0.001255491 16 2875 -99%
1941 2976 0.001221462 12 2964 -99%
1942 3119 0.001141731 7 3112 -100%
1943 3054 0.001081997 11 3043 -99%
1944 2782 0.00103417 9 2773 -99%
1945 2682 0.001010965 18 2664 -99%
1946 2828 0.000885048 9 2819 -99%
1947 2872 0.000797264 15 2857 -99%
1948 2882 0.000834753 12 2870 -99%
1949 2743 0.000787138 12 2731 -99%
1950 2629 0.000750423 8 2621 -99%
1951 2719 0.000738109 15 2704 -99%
1952 2672 0.000703527 16 2656 -99%
1953 2627 0.000681692 11 2616 -99%
1954 2603 0.000653904 12 2591 -99%
1955 2521 0.000627883 17 2504 -99%
1956 2405 0.000583308 8 2397 -99%
1957 2288 0.000544484 9 2279 -99%
1958 2092 0.000506059 7 2085 -99%
1959 1849 0.000444686 6 1843 -99%
1960 1796 0.000432374 12 1784 -99%
1961 1700 0.0004104 12 1688 -99%
1962 1595 0.000395255 16 1579 -98%
1963 1511 0.000381739 6 1505 -99%
1964 1401 0.000360376 10 1391 -99%
1965 1392 0.000383952 12 1380 -98%
1966 1168 0.000336052 9 1159 -98%
1967 1161 0.000341984 9 1152 -98%
1968 1056 0.000312573 1056 -100%
1969 1013 0.000291484 5 1008 -99%
1970 1040 0.000288367 6 1034 -99%
1971 962 0.000280274 11 951 -98%
1972 809 0.000257398 5 804 -99%
1973 716 0.000237331 9 707 -97%
1974 684 0.000225 7 677 -98%
1975 671 0.00022223 671 -100%
1976 632 0.000208285 632 -100%
1977 594 0.000186999 7 587 -98%
1978 573 0.000180537 5 568 -98%
1979 623 0.000187256 6 617 -98%
1980 573 0.000166352 5 568 -98%
1981 556 0.000160723 5 551 -98%
1982 520 0.000148234 5 515 -98%
1983 481 0.000138883 481 -100%
1984 437 0.00012526 437 -100%
1985 430 0.000120478 430 -100%
1986 387 0.000108797 5 382 -97%
1987 354 0.00009818 5 349 -97%
1988 400 0.000108253 400 -100%
1989 350 0.00009104 350 -100%
1990 349 0.000088299 349 -100%
1991 285 0.000073166 285 -100%
1992 307 0.000079921 307 -100%
1993 273 0.000072408 273 -100%
1994 235 0.000063212 235 -100%
1995 217 0.000059255 217 -100%
1996 204 0.000055933 204 -100%
1997 195 0.000053782 195 -100%
1998 193 0.000052471 193 -100%
1999 151 0.000040879 151 -100%
2000 157 0.000041535 157 -100%
2001 148 0.000039536 148 -100%
2002 161 0.000043068 161 -100%
2003 120 0.00003156 120 -100%
2004 109 0.000028527 109 -100%
2005 118 0.00003069 118 -100%
2006 113 0.000028563 113 -100%
2007 104 0.000026015 104 -100%
2008 110 0.000027985 110 -100%
2009 94 0.000024606 94 -100%
2010 99 0.000026788 99 -100%
2011 81 0.000022145 81 -100%
2012 72 0.000019686 72 -100%
2013 79 0.00002167 79 -100%
2014 75 0.000020235 75 -100%
2015 79 0.000021346 79 -100%
2016 80 0.000021806 80 -100%
2017 77 0.000021531 77 -100%
2018 71 0.000020194 71 -100%
2019 54 0.000015558 54 -100%
2020 59 0.000017662 59 -100%
2021 53 0.000015644 53 -100%
2022 64 0.000018917 64 -100%
2023 67 0.000020234 67 -100%
2024 55 0.000016524 55 -100%

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