How popular is “Herman” in the USA?

Number of people named “Herman” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Herman” by birth year

This chart shows how “Herman” 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	347	0.001722221		347	-100%
1881	304	0.00157768		304	-100%
1882	348	0.001570872		348	-100%
1883	359	0.00165479		359	-100%
1884	385	0.001581362		385	-100%
1885	326	0.001353517		326	-100%
1886	418	0.001637187		418	-100%
1887	394	0.001592614		394	-100%
1888	403	0.001345693		403	-100%
1889	405	0.001401646		405	-100%
1890	382	0.001267415		382	-100%
1891	390	0.001360435	7	383	-96%
1892	421	0.001259069		421	-100%
1893	462	0.001420564	7	455	-97%
1894	433	0.001278455		433	-100%
1895	439	0.001250641		439	-100%
1896	427	0.001194459		427	-100%
1897	418	0.00120476	6	412	-97%
1898	467	0.00122426		467	-100%
1899	413	0.001217449		413	-100%
1900	550	0.001221522		550	-100%
1901	393	0.001136456		393	-100%
1902	462	0.001194623	5	457	-98%
1903	449	0.001177859		449	-100%
1904	497	0.001231768		497	-100%
1905	480	0.001132284	5	475	-98%
1906	502	0.001171663		502	-100%
1907	561	0.001205441		561	-100%
1908	569	0.001164435	7	562	-98%
1909	618	0.001208863		618	-100%
1910	702	0.001188398	6	696	-98%
1911	853	0.001323963		853	-100%
1912	1657	0.00167702	11	1646	-99%
1913	1913	0.001682335	8	1905	-99%
1914	2444	0.001725569	14	2430	-99%
1915	2994	0.0016339	11	2983	-99%
1916	3065	0.001584457	22	3043	-99%
1917	2989	0.001489473	15	2974	-99%
1918	3056	0.001407574	15	3041	-99%
1919	3043	0.001442013	16	3027	-99%
1920	3129	0.001382896	20	3109	-99%
1921	3239	0.001387446	20	3219	-99%
1922	3032	0.001324506	18	3014	-99%
1923	2978	0.001293387	17	2961	-99%
1924	2969	0.001246636	15	2954	-99%
1925	2919	0.001251017	29	2890	-98%
1926	2816	0.001226532	18	2798	-99%
1927	2876	0.001239998	20	2856	-99%
1928	2611	0.00115483	23	2588	-98%
1929	2636	0.001202466	14	2622	-99%
1930	2624	0.001180234	26	2598	-98%
1931	2279	0.001082975	16	2263	-99%
1932	2202	0.001042964	11	2191	-99%
1933	1967	0.000983772	22	1945	-98%
1934	2031	0.000977939	20	2011	-98%
1935	1931	0.000923968	11	1920	-99%
1936	1822	0.000876983	6	1816	-99%
1937	1887	0.000885637	12	1875	-99%
1938	1905	0.000860988	5	1900	-99%
1939	1811	0.000821896	11	1800	-99%
1940	1683	0.000730886	13	1670	-98%
1941	1791	0.000735093	12	1779	-99%
1942	1797	0.000657804	10	1787	-99%
1943	1736	0.000615045	9	1727	-99%
1944	1647	0.00061225	6	1641	-99%
1945	1430	0.000539031	13	1417	-98%
1946	1600	0.000500734	10	1590	-99%
1947	1806	0.000501343	11	1795	-99%
1948	1849	0.000535551	12	1837	-99%
1949	1618	0.000464305	5	1613	-99%
1950	1574	0.000449283	10	1564	-99%
1951	1547	0.000419954	5	1542	-99%
1952	1508	0.000397051	11	1497	-99%
1953	1422	0.000369001	11	1411	-98%
1954	1426	0.000358228	10	1416	-99%
1955	1367	0.000340466	7	1360	-99%
1956	1332	0.000323063	6	1326	-99%
1957	1325	0.000315315	8	1317	-99%
1958	1224	0.000296088	12	1212	-98%
1959	1195	0.000287398	7	1188	-99%
1960	1060	0.000255187	11	1049	-98%
1961	1019	0.000245999	8	1011	-98%
1962	999	0.000247561		999	-100%
1963	843	0.000212976		843	-100%
1964	924	0.000237678	9	915	-98%
1965	804	0.000221766	9	795	-98%
1966	760	0.000218664	6	754	-98%
1967	672	0.000197944	9	663	-97%
1968	674	0.000199502	11	663	-97%
1969	676	0.000194514	9	667	-97%
1970	623	0.000172743	7	616	-98%
1971	556	0.000161988	8	548	-97%
1972	550	0.000174992		550	-100%
1973	496	0.000164408		496	-100%
1974	454	0.000149342		454	-100%
1975	465	0.000154004	8	457	-97%
1976	440	0.000145009	5	435	-98%
1977	421	0.000132536	7	414	-97%
1978	387	0.000121933	5	382	-97%
1979	409	0.000122934		409	-100%
1980	373	0.000108288	6	367	-97%
1981	330	0.000095393		330	-100%
1982	360	0.000102624		360	-100%
1983	352	0.000101636		352	-100%
1984	277	0.000079398		277	-100%
1985	309	0.000086576		309	-100%
1986	276	0.000077592		276	-100%
1987	282	0.000078211		282	-100%
1988	277	0.000074965		277	-100%
1989	294	0.000076474		294	-100%
1990	252	0.000063757		252	-100%
1991	269	0.000069058		269	-100%
1992	219	0.000057012		219	-100%
1993	207	0.000054903		207	-100%
1994	191	0.000051377		191	-100%
1995	174	0.000047513		174	-100%
1996	184	0.00005045		184	-100%
1997	164	0.000045232		164	-100%
1998	151	0.000041053		151	-100%
1999	146	0.000039525		146	-100%
2000	129	0.000034128		129	-100%
2001	121	0.000032324		121	-100%
2002	115	0.000030763		115	-100%
2003	117	0.000030771		117	-100%
2004	120	0.000031406		120	-100%
2005	107	0.000027829		107	-100%
2006	102	0.000025782		102	-100%
2007	95	0.000023764		95	-100%
2008	101	0.000025695		101	-100%
2009	94	0.000024606		94	-100%
2010	76	0.000020564		76	-100%
2011	89	0.000024332		89	-100%
2012	65	0.000017772		65	-100%
2013	80	0.000021944		80	-100%
2014	73	0.000019696		73	-100%
2015	91	0.000024589		91	-100%
2016	83	0.000022624		83	-100%
2017	55	0.000015379		55	-100%
2018	64	0.000018203		64	-100%
2019	73	0.000021032		73	-100%
2020	55	0.000016464		55	-100%
2021	45	0.000013282		45	-100%
2022	51	0.000015075		51	-100%
2023	60	0.00001812		60	-100%
2024	50	0.000015022		50	-100%

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