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How popular is “Honest” in the USA?

Number of people named “Honest” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Honest” by birth year

This chart shows how “Honest” 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
2006 5 0.000001264 5 100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2013 17 0.000004663 10 7 18%
2014 33 0.000008904 16 17 -3%
2015 31 0.000008376 20 11 29%
2016 20 0.000005452 9 11 -10%
2017 36 0.000010067 29 7 61%
2018 29 0.000008248 15 14 3%
2019 47 0.000013541 27 20 15%
2020 44 0.000013171 24 20 9%
2021 63 0.000018595 24 39 -24%
2022 80 0.000023647 50 30 25%
2023 61 0.000018422 24 37 -21%
2024 68 0.00002043 30 38 -12%

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