Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Herbie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Herbie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Herbie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Herbie” 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
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1927 9 0.00000388 9 -100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 -100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 12 0.000005702 12 -100%
1932 16 0.000007578 16 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 -100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 -100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 -100%
1937 19 0.000008917 19 -100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 -100%
1939 31 0.000014069 31 -100%
1940 18 0.000007817 18 -100%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 -100%
1942 18 0.000006589 18 -100%
1943 19 0.000006731 19 -100%
1944 32 0.000011896 32 -100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 -100%
1946 13 0.000004068 13 -100%
1947 23 0.000006385 23 -100%
1948 24 0.000006951 24 -100%
1949 23 0.0000066 23 -100%
1950 17 0.000004852 17 -100%
1951 20 0.000005429 20 -100%
1952 16 0.000004213 16 -100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 -100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 -100%
1955 19 0.000004732 19 -100%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 -100%
1957 27 0.000006425 27 -100%
1958 30 0.000007257 30 -100%
1959 45 0.000010823 45 -100%
1960 42 0.000010111 42 -100%
1961 43 0.000010381 43 -100%
1962 31 0.000007682 31 -100%
1963 28 0.000007074 28 -100%
1964 28 0.000007202 28 -100%
1965 22 0.000006068 22 -100%
1966 18 0.000005179 18 -100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 -100%
1968 19 0.000005624 19 -100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 -100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 -100%
1971 13 0.000003787 13 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 19 0.000006298 19 -100%
1974 18 0.000005921 18 -100%
1975 18 0.000005961 18 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 -100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%

Explore other names

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  2. Herberth
  3. Herberto
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  5. Herbey
  6. Herbie (this page)
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  10. Hercilia
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