How popular is “Infant” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Infant” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Infant” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1983	11	0.000003176		11	-100%
1984	23	0.000006593	8	15	-30%
1985	37	0.000010367	19	18	3%
1986	40	0.000011245	19	21	-5%
1987	50	0.000013867	16	34	-36%
1988	155	0.000041948	77	78	-1%
1989	768	0.000199769	392	376	2%
1990	1178	0.000298041	582	596	-1%
1991	415	0.00010654	186	229	-10%
1992	608	0.000158281	284	324	-7%
1993	397	0.000105297	195	202	-2%
1994	375	0.00010087	180	195	-4%
1995	466	0.000127247	222	244	-5%
1996	394	0.000108028	194	200	-2%
1997	377	0.000103979	169	208	-10%
1998	315	0.00008564	166	149	5%
1999	711	0.000192481	350	361	-2%
2000	427	0.000112966	210	217	-2%
2001	219	0.000058503	110	109	0%
2002	234	0.000062595	109	125	-7%
2003	181	0.000047603	85	96	-6%
2004	219	0.000057316	84	135	-23%
2005	174	0.000045255	79	95	-9%
2006	10	0.000002528		10	-100%
2007	18	0.000004503	9	9	0%
2008	15	0.000003816	7	8	-7%
2009	14	0.000003665	9	5	29%
2010	6	0.000001623	6		100%
2011	5	0.000001367		5	-100%
2013	6	0.000001646		6	-100%
2014	19	0.000005126	10	9	5%
2015	8	0.000002162		8	-100%
2016	24	0.000006542	9	15	-25%
2017	14	0.000003915	5	9	-29%
2018	22	0.000006257	13	9	18%
2019	28	0.000008067	13	15	-7%
2020	26	0.000007783	15	11	15%
2021	35	0.000010331	18	17	3%
2022	33	0.000009754	18	15	9%
2023	32	0.000009664	15	17	-6%
2024	7	0.000002103	7		100%

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