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How popular is “Holden” in the USA?

Number of people named “Holden” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Holden” by birth year

This chart shows how “Holden” 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
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1920 10 0.00000442 10 -100%
1921 11 0.000004712 11 -100%
1922 11 0.000004805 11 -100%
1923 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 12 0.000003781 12 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 -100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 17 0.000004873 17 -100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 -100%
1986 58 0.000016306 58 -100%
1987 107 0.000029676 107 -100%
1988 143 0.0000387 143 -100%
1989 146 0.000037977 146 -100%
1990 182 0.000046047 182 -100%
1991 234 0.000060073 234 -100%
1992 224 0.000058314 224 -100%
1993 267 0.000070817 267 -100%
1994 303 0.000081503 5 298 -97%
1995 299 0.000081646 299 -100%
1996 323 0.000088561 323 -100%
1997 451 0.000124388 451 -100%
1998 568 0.000154423 6 562 -98%
1999 550 0.000148895 8 542 -97%
2000 533 0.000141009 6 527 -98%
2001 553 0.000147727 6 547 -98%
2002 614 0.000164246 614 -100%
2003 625 0.000164373 6 619 -98%
2004 756 0.000197858 9 747 -98%
2005 838 0.000217954 8 830 -98%
2006 777 0.000196401 777 -100%
2007 820 0.000205119 8 812 -98%
2008 882 0.00022439 5 877 -99%
2009 963 0.000252083 8 955 -98%
2010 1021 0.000276264 10 1011 -98%
2011 1122 0.000306742 8 1114 -99%
2012 1186 0.000324277 9 1177 -98%
2013 1214 0.000332998 8 1206 -99%
2014 1232 0.0003324 14 1218 -98%
2015 1267 0.000342348 13 1254 -98%
2016 1368 0.000372884 12 1356 -98%
2017 1544 0.000431744 13 1531 -98%
2018 1756 0.000499446 25 1731 -97%
2019 1483 0.000427263 17 1466 -98%
2020 1661 0.00049722 13 1648 -98%
2021 1528 0.00045101 22 1506 -97%
2022 1230 0.000363568 11 1219 -98%
2023 1191 0.000359689 15 1176 -97%
2024 1221 0.000366832 16 1205 -97%

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