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How popular is “Hester” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hester” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hester” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hester” 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 49 0.000243195 49 100%
1881 55 0.000285436 55 100%
1882 63 0.000284382 63 100%
1883 72 0.00033188 72 100%
1884 85 0.000349132 85 100%
1885 85 0.000352911 85 100%
1886 76 0.00029767 76 100%
1887 89 0.000359753 89 100%
1888 113 0.000377328 113 100%
1889 109 0.000377233 109 100%
1890 119 0.000394823 119 100%
1891 102 0.000355806 102 100%
1892 122 0.000364861 122 100%
1893 160 0.00049197 155 5 94%
1894 143 0.000422215 143 100%
1895 164 0.00046721 164 100%
1896 150 0.000419599 150 100%
1897 140 0.000403508 140 100%
1898 163 0.000427311 158 5 94%
1899 153 0.000451016 148 5 93%
1900 192 0.000426422 183 9 91%
1901 166 0.00048003 160 6 93%
1902 164 0.000424065 164 100%
1903 147 0.000385624 147 100%
1904 175 0.000433721 169 6 93%
1905 160 0.000377428 160 100%
1906 158 0.00036877 158 100%
1907 164 0.000352393 159 5 94%
1908 190 0.000388827 184 6 94%
1909 184 0.00035992 179 5 95%
1910 221 0.000374125 212 9 92%
1911 208 0.000322842 201 7 93%
1912 273 0.000276298 265 8 94%
1913 291 0.000255912 275 16 89%
1914 318 0.000224522 309 9 94%
1915 380 0.000207375 359 21 89%
1916 402 0.000207815 378 24 88%
1917 370 0.000184378 358 12 94%
1918 407 0.000187462 394 13 94%
1919 379 0.0001796 360 19 90%
1920 380 0.000167945 362 18 91%
1921 355 0.000152066 337 18 90%
1922 352 0.000153768 340 12 93%
1923 398 0.000172857 382 16 92%
1924 330 0.000138562 317 13 92%
1925 346 0.000148288 325 21 88%
1926 287 0.000125005 274 13 91%
1927 272 0.000117274 262 10 93%
1928 225 0.000099516 218 7 94%
1929 235 0.0001072 220 15 87%
1930 226 0.000101651 214 12 89%
1931 198 0.000094089 184 14 86%
1932 167 0.000079099 153 14 83%
1933 170 0.000085024 157 13 85%
1934 179 0.00008619 160 19 79%
1935 139 0.00006651 134 5 93%
1936 158 0.00007605 148 10 87%
1937 127 0.000059606 120 7 89%
1938 150 0.000067794 136 14 81%
1939 117 0.000053099 117 100%
1940 145 0.00006297 132 13 82%
1941 125 0.000051305 117 8 87%
1942 120 0.000043927 120 100%
1943 140 0.0000496 132 8 89%
1944 132 0.000049069 123 9 86%
1945 107 0.000040333 100 7 87%
1946 94 0.000029418 87 7 85%
1947 118 0.000032757 112 6 90%
1948 91 0.000026358 91 100%
1949 112 0.00003214 101 11 80%
1950 106 0.000030257 101 5 91%
1951 72 0.000019545 72 100%
1952 81 0.000021327 81 100%
1953 98 0.00002543 92 6 88%
1954 91 0.00002286 86 5 89%
1955 86 0.000021419 80 6 86%
1956 64 0.000015523 64 100%
1957 61 0.000014516 61 100%
1958 58 0.00001403 58 100%
1959 59 0.00001419 59 100%
1960 47 0.000011315 47 100%
1961 47 0.000011346 47 100%
1962 39 0.000009665 39 100%
1963 46 0.000011621 46 100%
1964 42 0.000010804 42 100%
1965 19 0.000005241 19 100%
1966 27 0.000007768 27 100%
1967 27 0.000007953 27 100%
1968 29 0.000008584 29 100%
1969 25 0.000007194 25 100%
1970 37 0.000010259 32 5 73%
1971 30 0.00000874 30 100%
1972 19 0.000006045 19 100%
1973 29 0.000009613 29 100%
1974 27 0.000008882 27 100%
1975 21 0.000006955 21 100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 100%
1977 17 0.000005352 17 100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 100%
1979 29 0.000008717 29 100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 100%
1981 25 0.000007227 25 100%
1982 25 0.000007127 25 100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%

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