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How popular is “Homer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Homer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Homer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Homer” 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 205 0.00101745 205 -100%
1881 181 0.000939342 181 -100%
1882 190 0.00085766 190 -100%
1883 210 0.000967983 210 -100%
1884 216 0.000887206 216 -100%
1885 228 0.000946632 228 -100%
1886 224 0.000877344 224 -100%
1887 248 0.001002458 248 -100%
1888 256 0.000854832 256 -100%
1889 255 0.000882518 255 -100%
1890 223 0.000739878 223 -100%
1891 230 0.000802308 230 -100%
1892 301 0.00090019 301 -100%
1893 293 0.00090092 293 -100%
1894 278 0.00082081 5 273 -96%
1895 296 0.000843257 296 -100%
1896 263 0.000735697 5 258 -96%
1897 278 0.000801252 278 -100%
1898 246 0.000644899 246 -100%
1899 239 0.000704528 239 -100%
1900 326 0.000724029 326 -100%
1901 257 0.000743178 257 -100%
1902 269 0.00069557 269 -100%
1903 257 0.000674187 257 -100%
1904 256 0.000634472 256 -100%
1905 318 0.000750138 318 -100%
1906 267 0.000623175 267 -100%
1907 312 0.000670405 312 -100%
1908 340 0.000695796 340 -100%
1909 319 0.000623993 6 313 -96%
1910 352 0.000595892 5 347 -97%
1911 419 0.00065034 419 -100%
1912 794 0.000803593 794 -100%
1913 994 0.000874146 7 987 -99%
1914 1161 0.000819716 9 1152 -98%
1915 1499 0.000818041 12 1487 -98%
1916 1517 0.000784216 11 1506 -99%
1917 1561 0.000777875 9 1552 -99%
1918 1696 0.000781167 16 1680 -98%
1919 1558 0.000738303 11 1547 -99%
1920 1734 0.00076636 12 1722 -99%
1921 1674 0.000717068 17 1657 -98%
1922 1646 0.000719042 16 1630 -98%
1923 1556 0.000675793 11 1545 -99%
1924 1668 0.000700367 21 1647 -97%
1925 1560 0.00066858 16 1544 -98%
1926 1513 0.000658999 10 1503 -99%
1927 1389 0.000598873 18 1371 -97%
1928 1338 0.00059179 18 1320 -97%
1929 1219 0.000556072 13 1206 -98%
1930 1183 0.000532095 11 1172 -98%
1931 1113 0.000528895 9 1104 -98%
1932 1066 0.000504904 11 1055 -98%
1933 965 0.000482633 965 -100%
1934 943 0.00045406 6 937 -99%
1935 830 0.000397148 9 821 -98%
1936 837 0.000402873 7 830 -98%
1937 889 0.00041724 889 -100%
1938 855 0.000386428 855 -100%
1939 791 0.000358984 6 785 -98%
1940 779 0.000338301 6 773 -98%
1941 776 0.000318499 776 -100%
1942 781 0.00028589 781 -100%
1943 813 0.000288037 11 802 -97%
1944 748 0.000278059 7 741 -98%
1945 646 0.000243506 5 641 -98%
1946 598 0.000187149 5 593 -98%
1947 641 0.000177941 641 -100%
1948 624 0.000180738 5 619 -98%
1949 589 0.000169021 589 -100%
1950 558 0.000159276 6 552 -98%
1951 537 0.000145776 537 -100%
1952 543 0.00014297 543 -100%
1953 480 0.000124557 480 -100%
1954 459 0.000115306 459 -100%
1955 412 0.000102613 412 -100%
1956 467 0.000113266 467 -100%
1957 409 0.000097331 409 -100%
1958 378 0.000091439 5 373 -97%
1959 374 0.000089947 374 -100%
1960 323 0.00007776 323 -100%
1961 332 0.000080149 5 327 -97%
1962 310 0.000076821 310 -100%
1963 254 0.000064171 254 -100%
1964 265 0.000068165 265 -100%
1965 235 0.00006482 5 230 -96%
1966 224 0.000064448 224 -100%
1967 173 0.000050959 173 -100%
1968 193 0.000057127 193 -100%
1969 193 0.000055534 193 -100%
1970 182 0.000050464 182 -100%
1971 189 0.000055064 189 -100%
1972 143 0.000045498 143 -100%
1973 119 0.000039445 119 -100%
1974 143 0.000047039 143 -100%
1975 112 0.000037094 112 -100%
1976 109 0.000035923 109 -100%
1977 111 0.000034944 111 -100%
1978 101 0.000031822 101 -100%
1979 99 0.000029757 99 -100%
1980 106 0.000030774 106 -100%
1981 98 0.000028329 98 -100%
1982 78 0.000022235 78 -100%
1983 86 0.000024832 86 -100%
1984 72 0.000020638 72 -100%
1985 79 0.000022134 79 -100%
1986 70 0.000019679 70 -100%
1987 55 0.000015254 55 -100%
1988 53 0.000014344 53 -100%
1989 50 0.000013006 50 -100%
1990 58 0.000014674 58 -100%
1991 39 0.000010012 39 -100%
1992 49 0.000012756 49 -100%
1993 29 0.000007692 29 -100%
1994 31 0.000008339 31 -100%
1995 32 0.000008738 32 -100%
1996 36 0.000009871 36 -100%
1997 29 0.000007998 29 -100%
1998 33 0.000008972 33 -100%
1999 27 0.000007309 27 -100%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 -100%
2001 18 0.000004808 18 -100%
2002 31 0.000008293 31 -100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2004 24 0.000006281 24 -100%
2005 19 0.000004942 19 -100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 -100%
2007 22 0.000005503 22 -100%
2008 27 0.000006869 27 -100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 -100%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 -100%
2011 21 0.000005741 21 -100%
2012 25 0.000006836 25 -100%
2013 20 0.000005486 20 -100%
2014 30 0.000008094 30 -100%
2015 30 0.000008106 30 -100%
2016 24 0.000006542 24 -100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 -100%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 -100%
2019 23 0.000006626 23 -100%
2020 30 0.00000898 30 -100%
2021 32 0.000009445 32 -100%
2022 35 0.000010345 35 -100%
2023 39 0.000011778 39 -100%
2024 26 0.000007811 26 -100%

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