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How popular is “Honor” in the USA?

Number of people named “Honor” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Honor” by birth year

This chart shows how “Honor” 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
1888 6 0.000020035 6 100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1916 9 0.000004653 9 100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 100%
1918 21 0.000009672 21 100%
1919 15 0.000007108 15 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 100%
1923 17 0.000007383 17 100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 100%
1925 16 0.000006857 16 100%
1926 16 0.000006969 16 100%
1927 16 0.000006898 16 100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 100%
1932 13 0.000006157 13 100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 100%
1952 14 0.000003686 8 6 14%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1966 15 0.000004316 15 100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 15 0.000004972 15 100%
1974 12 0.000003947 12 100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 100%
1978 17 0.000005356 17 100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1983 16 0.00000462 16 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 15 0.00000416 15 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1995 13 0.00000355 13 100%
1996 20 0.000005484 20 100%
1997 23 0.000006344 23 100%
1998 30 0.000008156 30 100%
1999 19 0.000005144 19 100%
2000 45 0.000011905 40 5 78%
2001 33 0.000008816 33 100%
2002 49 0.000013108 42 7 71%
2003 54 0.000014202 45 9 67%
2004 42 0.000010992 36 6 71%
2005 35 0.000009103 28 7 60%
2006 49 0.000012386 34 15 39%
2007 39 0.000009756 28 11 44%
2008 68 0.0000173 40 28 18%
2009 139 0.000036386 103 36 48%
2010 131 0.000035446 87 44 33%
2011 147 0.000040188 99 48 35%
2012 197 0.000053864 134 63 36%
2013 199 0.000054585 134 65 35%
2014 160 0.000043169 109 51 36%
2015 170 0.000045935 124 46 46%
2016 179 0.000048791 106 73 18%
2017 204 0.000057044 106 98 4%
2018 200 0.000056884 105 95 5%
2019 211 0.000060791 107 104 1%
2020 197 0.000058972 94 103 -5%
2021 247 0.000072905 117 130 -5%
2022 235 0.000069462 120 115 2%
2023 211 0.000063723 100 111 -5%
2024 200 0.000060087 91 109 -9%

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