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How popular is “Holmes” in the USA?

Number of people named “Holmes” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Holmes” by birth year

This chart shows how “Holmes” 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 6 0.000029779 6 -100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 -100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1912 12 0.000012145 12 -100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 -100%
1915 24 0.000013097 24 -100%
1916 19 0.000009822 19 -100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 -100%
1918 20 0.000009212 20 -100%
1919 21 0.000009951 21 -100%
1920 20 0.000008839 20 -100%
1921 23 0.000009852 23 -100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 -100%
1923 15 0.000006515 15 -100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 -100%
1925 23 0.000009857 23 -100%
1926 17 0.000007404 17 -100%
1927 18 0.000007761 18 -100%
1928 13 0.00000575 13 -100%
1929 13 0.00000593 13 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 18 0.000008526 18 -100%
1933 19 0.000009503 19 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 10 0.000004813 10 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 13 0.000004606 13 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 -100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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