How popular is “Hildegard” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hildegard” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hildegard” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hildegard” 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	Bias toward female
1888	6	0.000020035	6	100%
1890	6	0.000019907	6	100%
1891	11	0.000038371	11	100%
1892	6	0.000017944	6	100%
1893	13	0.000039973	13	100%
1894	10	0.000029526	10	100%
1895	13	0.000037035	13	100%
1896	21	0.000058744	21	100%
1897	14	0.000040351	14	100%
1898	16	0.000041945	16	100%
1899	20	0.000058956	20	100%
1900	23	0.000051082	23	100%
1901	21	0.000060727	21	100%
1902	28	0.000072401	28	100%
1903	17	0.000044596	17	100%
1904	23	0.000057003	23	100%
1905	21	0.000049537	21	100%
1906	34	0.000079356	34	100%
1907	18	0.000038677	18	100%
1908	13	0.000026604	13	100%
1909	21	0.000041078	21	100%
1910	12	0.000020315	12	100%
1911	22	0.000034147	22	100%
1912	45	0.000045544	45	100%
1913	39	0.000034297	39	100%
1914	44	0.000031066	44	100%
1915	81	0.000044204	81	100%
1916	70	0.000036187	70	100%
1917	63	0.000031394	63	100%
1918	57	0.000026254	57	100%
1919	50	0.000023694	50	100%
1920	35	0.000015469	35	100%
1921	35	0.000014992	35	100%
1922	43	0.000018784	43	100%
1923	47	0.000020413	47	100%
1924	38	0.000015956	38	100%
1925	46	0.000019715	46	100%
1926	47	0.000020471	47	100%
1927	57	0.000024576	57	100%
1928	44	0.000019461	44	100%
1929	44	0.000020072	44	100%
1930	50	0.000022489	50	100%
1931	31	0.000014731	31	100%
1932	30	0.000014209	30	100%
1933	34	0.000017005	34	100%
1934	31	0.000014927	31	100%
1935	24	0.000011484	24	100%
1936	14	0.000006739	14	100%
1937	25	0.000011733	25	100%
1938	23	0.000010395	23	100%
1939	14	0.000006354	14	100%
1940	16	0.000006948	16	100%
1941	17	0.000006977	17	100%
1942	11	0.000004027	11	100%
1943	9	0.000003189	9	100%
1944	10	0.000003717	10	100%
1945	8	0.000003016	8	100%
1946	13	0.000004068	13	100%
1947	9	0.000002498	9	100%
1948	9	0.000002607	9	100%
1949	6	0.000001722	6	100%
1950	7	0.000001998	7	100%
1951	7	0.0000019	7	100%
1952	10	0.000002633	10	100%
1953	12	0.000003114	12	100%
1954	10	0.000002512	10	100%
1955	6	0.000001494	6	100%
1956	11	0.000002668	11	100%
1957	10	0.00000238	10	100%
1958	11	0.000002661	11	100%
1959	9	0.000002165	9	100%
1960	9	0.000002167	9	100%
1961	5	0.000001207	5	100%
1962	7	0.000001735	7	100%
1963	9	0.000002274	9	100%
1964	6	0.000001543	6	100%
1968	6	0.000001776	6	100%
1970	6	0.000001664	6	100%
2014	6	0.000001619	6	100%
2015	6	0.000001621	6	100%
2016	10	0.000002726	10	100%
2017	6	0.000001678	6	100%
2018	10	0.000002844	10	100%
2019	14	0.000004033	14	100%
2020	8	0.000002395	8	100%
2021	13	0.000003837	13	100%
2022	22	0.000006503	22	100%
2023	19	0.000005738	19	100%
2024	17	0.000005107	17	100%

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