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How popular is “Iona” in the USA?

Number of people named “Iona” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Iona” by birth year

This chart shows how “Iona” 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 18 0.000089337 18 100%
1881 18 0.000093415 18 100%
1882 22 0.000099308 22 100%
1883 18 0.00008297 18 100%
1884 17 0.000069826 17 100%
1885 23 0.000095494 23 100%
1886 18 0.000070501 18 100%
1887 22 0.000088928 22 100%
1888 31 0.000103515 31 100%
1889 37 0.000128052 37 100%
1890 37 0.00012276 37 100%
1891 28 0.000097672 28 100%
1892 44 0.000131589 44 100%
1893 44 0.000135292 44 100%
1894 48 0.000141723 48 100%
1895 50 0.000142442 50 100%
1896 56 0.00015665 56 100%
1897 57 0.000164285 57 100%
1898 52 0.00013632 52 100%
1899 39 0.000114965 39 100%
1900 83 0.000184339 83 100%
1901 64 0.000185072 64 100%
1902 62 0.000160317 62 100%
1903 73 0.000191501 73 100%
1904 90 0.000223057 90 100%
1905 88 0.000207585 88 100%
1906 83 0.000193721 83 100%
1907 93 0.000199832 93 100%
1908 101 0.000206692 101 100%
1909 101 0.000197565 101 100%
1910 124 0.000209917 124 100%
1911 110 0.000170734 110 100%
1912 141 0.000142704 141 100%
1913 147 0.000129275 147 100%
1914 164 0.000115791 164 100%
1915 270 0.000147346 270 100%
1916 320 0.000165425 320 100%
1917 330 0.000164445 330 100%
1918 404 0.00018608 404 100%
1919 352 0.000166805 352 100%
1920 374 0.000165293 374 100%
1921 360 0.000154208 360 100%
1922 331 0.000144595 331 100%
1923 343 0.00014897 343 100%
1924 332 0.000139401 332 100%
1925 294 0.000126002 294 100%
1926 263 0.000114552 263 100%
1927 300 0.000129346 300 100%
1928 275 0.000121631 275 100%
1929 279 0.000127272 279 100%
1930 232 0.00010435 232 100%
1931 235 0.000111671 235 100%
1932 194 0.000091887 194 100%
1933 186 0.000093026 186 100%
1934 178 0.000085708 178 100%
1935 162 0.000077516 162 100%
1936 162 0.000077975 162 100%
1937 123 0.000057728 123 100%
1938 128 0.000057851 128 100%
1939 147 0.000066714 147 100%
1940 97 0.000042125 97 100%
1941 89 0.000036529 89 100%
1942 112 0.000040998 112 100%
1943 109 0.000038617 109 100%
1944 94 0.000034943 94 100%
1945 80 0.000030156 80 100%
1946 95 0.000029731 95 100%
1947 71 0.00001971 71 100%
1948 75 0.000021723 75 100%
1949 65 0.000018653 65 100%
1950 71 0.000020266 71 100%
1951 82 0.00002226 82 100%
1952 67 0.000017641 67 100%
1953 58 0.000015051 58 100%
1954 68 0.000017082 68 100%
1955 71 0.000017683 71 100%
1956 57 0.000013825 57 100%
1957 34 0.000008091 34 100%
1958 45 0.000010886 45 100%
1959 57 0.000013709 57 100%
1960 37 0.000008907 37 100%
1961 40 0.000009656 40 100%
1962 31 0.000007682 31 100%
1963 30 0.000007579 30 100%
1964 33 0.000008489 33 100%
1965 26 0.000007172 26 100%
1966 20 0.000005754 20 100%
1967 37 0.000010899 37 100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 100%
1969 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1970 24 0.000006655 24 100%
1971 20 0.000005827 20 100%
1972 18 0.000005727 18 100%
1973 26 0.000008618 26 100%
1974 21 0.000006908 21 100%
1975 19 0.000006293 19 100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 100%
1977 17 0.000005352 17 100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 100%
1980 15 0.000004355 15 100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 100%
1983 21 0.000006064 21 100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 15 0.000004217 15 100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 15 0.000003978 15 100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 100%
1997 23 0.000006344 23 100%
1998 17 0.000004622 17 100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 100%
2000 26 0.000006878 26 100%
2001 33 0.000008816 33 100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 100%
2003 23 0.000006049 23 100%
2004 35 0.00000916 35 100%
2005 28 0.000007282 28 100%
2006 39 0.000009858 39 100%
2007 33 0.000008255 33 100%
2008 35 0.000008904 30 5 71%
2009 36 0.000009424 36 100%
2010 44 0.000011906 44 100%
2011 39 0.000010662 39 100%
2012 42 0.000011484 42 100%
2013 45 0.000012343 45 100%
2014 59 0.000015919 59 100%
2015 65 0.000017563 65 100%
2016 59 0.000016082 59 100%
2017 49 0.000013702 49 100%
2018 68 0.000019341 68 100%
2019 73 0.000021032 73 100%
2020 52 0.000015566 52 100%
2021 66 0.000019481 66 100%
2022 76 0.000022464 76 100%
2023 56 0.000016912 56 100%
2024 66 0.000019829 61 5 85%

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