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How popular is “Howard” in the USA?

Number of people named “Howard” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Howard” by birth year

This chart shows how “Howard” 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 357 0.001771853 357 -100%
1881 359 0.001863115 359 -100%
1882 422 0.001904908 422 -100%
1883 429 0.001977451 429 -100%
1884 432 0.001774412 432 -100%
1885 438 0.001818529 438 -100%
1886 467 0.001829106 467 -100%
1887 434 0.001754301 5 429 -98%
1888 521 0.001739717 8 513 -97%
1889 503 0.00174081 503 -100%
1890 509 0.00168878 8 501 -97%
1891 490 0.001709265 5 485 -98%
1892 548 0.001638883 548 -100%
1893 556 0.001709596 556 -100%
1894 612 0.001806962 612 -100%
1895 641 0.001826107 641 -100%
1896 677 0.001893791 677 -100%
1897 634 0.001827316 634 -100%
1898 712 0.001866537 6 706 -98%
1899 594 0.001751004 5 589 -98%
1900 784 0.001741224 5 779 -99%
1901 589 0.001703238 5 584 -98%
1902 632 0.001634202 632 -100%
1903 636 0.001668415 636 -100%
1904 732 0.001814194 6 726 -98%
1905 746 0.001759758 11 735 -97%
1906 809 0.001888197 6 803 -99%
1907 875 0.001880144 875 -100%
1908 1083 0.002216315 5 1078 -99%
1909 1175 0.002298405 9 1166 -98%
1910 1309 0.002215974 1309 -100%
1911 1473 0.00228628 6 1467 -99%
1912 3231 0.003270038 19 3212 -99%
1913 3683 0.003238913 20 3663 -99%
1914 4515 0.003187785 25 4490 -99%
1915 6130 0.003345292 27 6103 -99%
1916 6201 0.003205617 30 6171 -99%
1917 6444 0.003211162 34 6410 -99%
1918 6966 0.003208495 38 6928 -99%
1919 6871 0.00325602 28 6843 -99%
1920 7510 0.003319127 44 7466 -99%
1921 7749 0.003319333 36 7713 -99%
1922 7337 0.003205111 41 7296 -99%
1923 7193 0.003124021 36 7157 -99%
1924 7418 0.0031147 46 7372 -99%
1925 7219 0.003093899 48 7171 -99%
1926 6886 0.002999253 50 6836 -99%
1927 6873 0.00296332 42 6831 -99%
1928 6552 0.002897912 56 6496 -98%
1929 6056 0.002762571 46 6010 -98%
1930 6396 0.00287682 54 6342 -98%
1931 5656 0.002687717 33 5623 -99%
1932 5325 0.002522154 33 5292 -99%
1933 5027 0.002514195 32 4995 -99%
1934 5090 0.002450867 22 5068 -99%
1935 4989 0.002387196 19 4970 -99%
1936 4905 0.002360922 31 4874 -99%
1937 4722 0.002216204 22 4700 -99%
1938 5034 0.002275178 16 5018 -99%
1939 4644 0.002107612 31 4613 -99%
1940 4834 0.002099288 10 4824 -100%
1941 5082 0.002085843 14 5068 -99%
1942 5590 0.002046256 20 5570 -99%
1943 5760 0.002040701 21 5739 -99%
1944 5041 0.001873923 16 5025 -99%
1945 4791 0.001805941 23 4768 -99%
1946 5702 0.001784492 8 5694 -100%
1947 6082 0.001688355 21 6061 -99%
1948 5506 0.001594778 9 5497 -100%
1949 5294 0.001519179 10 5284 -100%
1950 5177 0.001477725 12 5165 -100%
1951 5119 0.001389621 11 5108 -100%
1952 5257 0.001384148 13 5244 -100%
1953 5008 0.001299549 23 4985 -99%
1954 4950 0.001243497 17 4933 -99%
1955 4769 0.001187772 22 4747 -99%
1956 4723 0.001145515 17 4706 -99%
1957 4630 0.001101819 15 4615 -99%
1958 4379 0.001059289 15 4364 -99%
1959 4000 0.000962003 12 3988 -99%
1960 3838 0.00092397 14 3824 -99%
1961 3591 0.000866909 20 3571 -99%
1962 3287 0.000814547 12 3275 -99%
1963 3173 0.000801627 13 3160 -99%
1964 3072 0.000790204 11 3061 -99%
1965 2693 0.000742805 15 2678 -99%
1966 2558 0.000735976 13 2545 -99%
1967 2297 0.000676604 12 2285 -99%
1968 2171 0.000642609 15 2156 -99%
1969 2161 0.000621813 15 2146 -99%
1970 2014 0.000558434 18 1996 -98%
1971 1847 0.000538115 10 1837 -99%
1972 1506 0.000479161 14 1492 -98%
1973 1368 0.000453448 17 1351 -98%
1974 1216 0.0004 8 1208 -99%
1975 1181 0.000391138 15 1166 -97%
1976 1044 0.000344066 12 1032 -98%
1977 1030 0.000324257 13 1017 -97%
1978 965 0.000304045 8 957 -98%
1979 934 0.000280733 7 927 -99%
1980 935 0.000271447 10 925 -98%
1981 861 0.000248889 6 855 -99%
1982 808 0.000230333 13 795 -97%
1983 727 0.000209913 727 -100%
1984 683 0.000195772 9 674 -97%
1985 683 0.000191364 6 677 -98%
1986 606 0.000170365 6 600 -98%
1987 632 0.000175282 6 626 -98%
1988 614 0.000166169 614 -100%
1989 559 0.000145405 559 -100%
1990 572 0.000144719 572 -100%
1991 495 0.000127077 495 -100%
1992 464 0.000120793 464 -100%
1993 416 0.000110337 416 -100%
1994 374 0.000100601 374 -100%
1995 358 0.000097757 358 -100%
1996 305 0.000083626 305 -100%
1997 324 0.000089361 324 -100%
1998 330 0.000089718 330 -100%
1999 277 0.000074989 277 -100%
2000 270 0.00007143 270 -100%
2001 290 0.00007747 290 -100%
2002 266 0.000071156 266 -100%
2003 258 0.000067853 258 -100%
2004 235 0.000061503 235 -100%
2005 229 0.00005956 229 -100%
2006 243 0.000061423 243 -100%
2007 241 0.000060285 241 -100%
2008 229 0.00005826 229 -100%
2009 216 0.000056542 216 -100%
2010 229 0.000061963 229 -100%
2011 207 0.000056592 207 -100%
2012 203 0.000055504 203 -100%
2013 194 0.000053214 194 -100%
2014 211 0.000056929 211 -100%
2015 194 0.00005242 194 -100%
2016 241 0.000065691 241 -100%
2017 203 0.000056764 203 -100%
2018 213 0.000060582 213 -100%
2019 216 0.000062231 216 -100%
2020 194 0.000058074 194 -100%
2021 241 0.000071134 241 -100%
2022 208 0.000061481 208 -100%
2023 219 0.000066139 219 -100%
2024 207 0.00006219 207 -100%

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