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How popular is “Horace” in the USA?

Number of people named “Horace” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Horace” by birth year

This chart shows how “Horace” 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 199 0.000987671 199 -100%
1881 152 0.00078884 152 -100%
1882 176 0.000794464 176 -100%
1883 167 0.000769777 167 -100%
1884 154 0.000632545 154 -100%
1885 155 0.000643543 155 -100%
1886 156 0.000611008 156 -100%
1887 160 0.000646747 160 -100%
1888 165 0.000550966 165 -100%
1889 166 0.000574502 166 -100%
1890 162 0.00053749 162 -100%
1891 165 0.000575569 165 -100%
1892 187 0.000559254 187 -100%
1893 171 0.000525793 171 -100%
1894 196 0.0005787 196 -100%
1895 211 0.000601105 211 -100%
1896 204 0.000570655 204 -100%
1897 160 0.000461152 160 -100%
1898 189 0.000495471 189 -100%
1899 169 0.000498181 169 -100%
1900 244 0.000541912 244 -100%
1901 178 0.000514731 178 -100%
1902 199 0.000514567 199 -100%
1903 175 0.000459077 175 -100%
1904 205 0.000508073 205 -100%
1905 212 0.000500092 212 -100%
1906 202 0.000471466 202 -100%
1907 223 0.000479168 223 -100%
1908 235 0.000480918 235 -100%
1909 252 0.000492935 252 -100%
1910 261 0.00044184 261 -100%
1911 300 0.000465638 300 -100%
1912 615 0.000622431 615 -100%
1913 657 0.000577781 657 -100%
1914 846 0.000597313 6 840 -99%
1915 1125 0.00061394 11 1114 -98%
1916 1106 0.000571748 1106 -100%
1917 1182 0.000589012 1182 -100%
1918 1199 0.000552252 1199 -100%
1919 1221 0.000578606 6 1215 -99%
1920 1283 0.000567036 7 1276 -99%
1921 1313 0.000562432 1313 -100%
1922 1251 0.00054649 1251 -100%
1923 1251 0.000543327 9 1242 -99%
1924 1166 0.000489585 1166 -100%
1925 1151 0.000493292 11 1140 -98%
1926 1116 0.000486083 9 1107 -98%
1927 1191 0.000513504 11 1180 -98%
1928 1105 0.000488735 7 1098 -99%
1929 1014 0.000462557 10 1004 -98%
1930 978 0.000439889 5 973 -99%
1931 931 0.000442409 931 -100%
1932 889 0.000421069 6 883 -99%
1933 873 0.000436621 8 865 -98%
1934 823 0.00039628 7 816 -98%
1935 788 0.000377052 788 -100%
1936 691 0.000332599 691 -100%
1937 753 0.00035341 8 745 -98%
1938 728 0.000329029 5 723 -99%
1939 718 0.000325854 7 711 -98%
1940 661 0.000287056 661 -100%
1941 742 0.000304545 742 -100%
1942 729 0.000266855 729 -100%
1943 690 0.000244459 6 684 -98%
1944 648 0.000240885 648 -100%
1945 598 0.000225413 598 -100%
1946 669 0.00020937 669 -100%
1947 741 0.000205701 741 -100%
1948 726 0.000210281 7 719 -98%
1949 698 0.0002003 13 685 -96%
1950 687 0.000196098 687 -100%
1951 607 0.000164778 5 602 -98%
1952 646 0.000170089 646 -100%
1953 661 0.000171526 6 655 -98%
1954 611 0.00015349 611 -100%
1955 556 0.000138478 8 548 -97%
1956 539 0.000130729 539 -100%
1957 555 0.000132075 8 547 -97%
1958 432 0.000104502 432 -100%
1959 452 0.000108706 452 -100%
1960 424 0.000102075 5 419 -98%
1961 389 0.000093909 6 383 -97%
1962 348 0.000086237 5 343 -97%
1963 320 0.000080845 320 -100%
1964 350 0.00009003 350 -100%
1965 306 0.000084403 306 -100%
1966 271 0.000077971 271 -100%
1967 273 0.000080415 273 -100%
1968 248 0.000073407 248 -100%
1969 226 0.00006503 226 -100%
1970 241 0.000066824 241 -100%
1971 255 0.000074293 255 -100%
1972 204 0.000064906 204 -100%
1973 174 0.000057675 174 -100%
1974 174 0.000057237 174 -100%
1975 146 0.000048354 146 -100%
1976 163 0.000053719 163 -100%
1977 158 0.00004974 158 -100%
1978 146 0.000046001 146 -100%
1979 155 0.000046589 155 -100%
1980 122 0.000035419 122 -100%
1981 125 0.000036134 125 -100%
1982 141 0.000040194 141 -100%
1983 115 0.000033205 115 -100%
1984 112 0.000032103 112 -100%
1985 99 0.000027738 99 -100%
1986 104 0.000029237 104 -100%
1987 83 0.00002302 83 -100%
1988 103 0.000027875 103 -100%
1989 114 0.000029653 114 -100%
1990 105 0.000026566 105 -100%
1991 112 0.000028753 112 -100%
1992 91 0.00002369 91 -100%
1993 90 0.000023871 90 -100%
1994 81 0.000021788 81 -100%
1995 70 0.000019114 70 -100%
1996 61 0.000016725 61 -100%
1997 47 0.000012963 47 -100%
1998 50 0.000013594 50 -100%
1999 46 0.000012453 46 -100%
2000 60 0.000015873 60 -100%
2001 59 0.000015761 59 -100%
2002 38 0.000010165 38 -100%
2003 38 0.000009994 38 -100%
2004 48 0.000012562 48 -100%
2005 35 0.000009103 35 -100%
2006 30 0.000007583 30 -100%
2007 27 0.000006754 27 -100%
2008 28 0.000007123 28 -100%
2009 21 0.000005497 21 -100%
2010 28 0.000007576 28 -100%
2011 35 0.000009569 35 -100%
2012 26 0.000007109 26 -100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 -100%
2014 40 0.000010792 40 -100%
2015 23 0.000006215 23 -100%
2016 23 0.000006269 23 -100%
2017 28 0.00000783 28 -100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 -100%
2019 22 0.000006338 22 -100%
2020 18 0.000005388 18 -100%
2021 17 0.000005018 17 -100%
2022 22 0.000006503 22 -100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 -100%
2024 18 0.000005408 18 -100%

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