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How popular is “Hilda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hilda” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hilda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hilda” 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 60 0.00029779 60 100%
1881 48 0.000249107 48 100%
1882 58 0.000261812 58 100%
1883 99 0.000456335 99 100%
1884 125 0.000513429 125 100%
1885 121 0.000502379 121 100%
1886 143 0.00056009 143 100%
1887 156 0.000630578 156 100%
1888 219 0.000731282 219 100%
1889 251 0.000868674 251 100%
1890 304 0.001008623 304 100%
1891 324 0.001130208 324 100%
1892 370 0.001106545 370 100%
1893 410 0.001260673 410 100%
1894 470 0.0013877 470 100%
1895 513 0.001461455 513 100%
1896 549 0.001535733 549 100%
1897 561 0.001616915 561 100%
1898 610 0.00159914 610 100%
1899 621 0.001830595 621 100%
1900 663 0.001472489 663 100%
1901 574 0.001659861 574 100%
1902 649 0.00167816 649 100%
1903 698 0.00183106 698 100%
1904 629 0.001558918 629 100%
1905 655 0.001545096 655 100%
1906 705 0.001645462 705 100%
1907 702 0.001508412 702 100%
1908 735 0.001504147 735 100%
1909 780 0.00152575 773 7 98%
1910 793 0.00134245 793 100%
1911 916 0.001421747 916 100%
1912 1158 0.001171991 1158 100%
1913 1280 0.001125661 1275 5 99%
1914 1533 0.001082364 1525 8 99%
1915 1891 0.001031965 1891 100%
1916 2083 0.00107681 2075 8 99%
1917 2011 0.001002118 2006 5 100%
1918 2125 0.000978762 2118 7 99%
1919 1917 0.000908425 1917 100%
1920 2058 0.000909556 2050 8 99%
1921 2137 0.000915397 2128 9 99%
1922 1967 0.000859269 1962 5 99%
1923 1862 0.000808693 1862 100%
1924 1950 0.000818774 1941 9 99%
1925 1824 0.000781725 1824 100%
1926 1858 0.000809267 1847 11 99%
1927 1677 0.000723045 1669 8 99%
1928 1574 0.000696171 1574 100%
1929 1344 0.000613094 1334 10 99%
1930 1309 0.000588768 1303 6 99%
1931 1098 0.000521767 1098 100%
1932 1110 0.000525745 1105 5 99%
1933 966 0.000483134 957 9 98%
1934 934 0.000449727 929 5 99%
1935 867 0.000414852 867 100%
1936 828 0.000398541 822 6 99%
1937 761 0.000357165 761 100%
1938 857 0.000387332 850 7 98%
1939 762 0.000345823 762 100%
1940 797 0.000346118 797 100%
1941 795 0.000326298 795 100%
1942 784 0.000286988 784 100%
1943 703 0.000249065 703 100%
1944 745 0.000276944 745 100%
1945 680 0.000256322 680 100%
1946 718 0.000224705 718 100%
1947 843 0.000234016 843 100%
1948 803 0.000232584 798 5 99%
1949 704 0.000202022 704 100%
1950 682 0.00019467 682 100%
1951 708 0.000192196 708 100%
1952 670 0.000176408 665 5 99%
1953 727 0.000188653 727 100%
1954 658 0.000165297 658 100%
1955 660 0.00016438 660 100%
1956 626 0.00015183 626 100%
1957 592 0.00014088 587 5 98%
1958 523 0.000126515 523 100%
1959 466 0.000112073 466 100%
1960 458 0.00011026 458 100%
1961 424 0.000102359 424 100%
1962 428 0.000106062 428 100%
1963 380 0.000096003 380 100%
1964 411 0.000105721 411 100%
1965 377 0.000103987 377 100%
1966 291 0.000083725 291 100%
1967 292 0.000086011 292 100%
1968 250 0.000073999 250 100%
1969 285 0.000082007 285 100%
1970 298 0.000082628 298 100%
1971 277 0.000080703 277 100%
1972 284 0.00009036 284 100%
1973 236 0.000078226 236 100%
1974 304 0.0001 304 100%
1975 249 0.000082467 249 100%
1976 279 0.000091949 279 100%
1977 197 0.000062018 197 100%
1978 242 0.000076248 237 5 96%
1979 221 0.000066426 221 100%
1980 261 0.000075773 253 8 94%
1981 242 0.000069955 242 100%
1982 225 0.00006414 219 6 95%
1983 201 0.000058036 195 6 94%
1984 188 0.000053887 188 100%
1985 183 0.000051273 183 100%
1986 170 0.000047792 170 100%
1987 146 0.000040492 146 100%
1988 139 0.000037618 139 100%
1989 172 0.00004474 172 100%
1990 158 0.000039975 158 100%
1991 163 0.000041846 163 100%
1992 158 0.000041132 158 100%
1993 152 0.000040315 152 100%
1994 148 0.00003981 148 100%
1995 138 0.000037683 138 100%
1996 124 0.000033999 124 100%
1997 112 0.00003089 112 100%
1998 103 0.000028003 103 100%
1999 106 0.000028696 106 100%
2000 82 0.000021694 82 100%
2001 88 0.000023508 88 100%
2002 120 0.0000321 120 100%
2003 86 0.000022618 86 100%
2004 88 0.000023031 88 100%
2005 75 0.000019507 75 100%
2006 90 0.000022749 90 100%
2007 61 0.000015259 61 100%
2008 62 0.000015773 62 100%
2009 75 0.000019633 75 100%
2010 47 0.000012717 47 100%
2011 41 0.000011209 41 100%
2012 65 0.000017772 65 100%
2013 33 0.000009052 33 100%
2014 44 0.000011871 44 100%
2015 49 0.00001324 49 100%
2016 40 0.000010903 40 100%
2017 36 0.000010067 36 100%
2018 45 0.000012799 45 100%
2019 48 0.000013829 48 100%
2020 45 0.000013471 45 100%
2021 46 0.000013578 46 100%
2022 60 0.000017735 60 100%
2023 56 0.000016912 56 100%
2024 53 0.000015923 53 100%

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