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How popular is “Horton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Horton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Horton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Horton” 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 8 0.000026714 8 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 16 0.000014071 16 -100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 16 0.000008732 16 -100%
1916 23 0.00001189 23 -100%
1917 16 0.000007973 16 -100%
1918 21 0.000009672 21 -100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 -100%
1920 15 0.000006629 15 -100%
1921 24 0.000010281 24 -100%
1922 28 0.000012232 28 -100%
1923 28 0.000012161 28 -100%
1924 22 0.000009237 22 -100%
1925 17 0.000007286 17 -100%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 -100%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 -100%
1928 24 0.000010615 24 -100%
1929 22 0.000010036 22 -100%
1930 15 0.000006747 15 -100%
1931 12 0.000005702 12 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1933 14 0.000007002 14 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 10 0.000003661 10 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 -100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%

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