Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Hoover” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hoover” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hoover” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hoover” 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
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1917 16 0.000007973 16 -100%
1918 21 0.000009672 21 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 12 0.000005304 12 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 -100%
1926 19 0.000008276 19 -100%
1927 40 0.000017246 40 -100%
1928 256 0.000113227 256 -100%
1929 212 0.000096708 7 205 -93%
1930 92 0.00004138 92 -100%
1931 49 0.000023285 49 -100%
1932 64 0.000030313 64 -100%
1933 24 0.000012003 24 -100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 -100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 19 0.000004732 19 -100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 -100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 -100%
1958 17 0.000004112 17 -100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 -100%

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