How popular is “Ira” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ira” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ira” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ira” 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	265	0.001315241	16	249	-88%
1881	294	0.001525783	8	286	-95%
1882	252	0.001137528	8	244	-94%
1883	257	0.001184627	18	239	-86%
1884	301	0.001236338	17	284	-89%
1885	249	0.001033821	14	235	-89%
1886	220	0.000861677	22	198	-80%
1887	237	0.000957994	22	215	-81%
1888	245	0.000818101	23	222	-81%
1889	231	0.000799457	24	207	-79%
1890	226	0.000749832	17	209	-85%
1891	202	0.000704636	23	179	-77%
1892	258	0.000771591	27	231	-79%
1893	207	0.000636486	26	181	-75%
1894	221	0.000652514	15	206	-86%
1895	230	0.000655233	23	207	-80%
1896	221	0.000618209	31	190	-72%
1897	215	0.000619673	35	180	-67%
1898	222	0.000581982	27	195	-76%
1899	169	0.000498181	31	138	-63%
1900	268	0.000595214	50	218	-63%
1901	171	0.000494488	29	142	-66%
1902	193	0.000499052	37	156	-62%
1903	201	0.000527282	34	167	-66%
1904	172	0.000426286	28	144	-67%
1905	212	0.000500092	43	169	-59%
1906	188	0.00043879	37	151	-61%
1907	224	0.000481317	28	196	-75%
1908	232	0.000474778	36	196	-69%
1909	212	0.000414691	37	175	-65%
1910	278	0.000470619	45	233	-68%
1911	284	0.000440804	48	236	-66%
1912	444	0.000449365	50	394	-77%
1913	542	0.000476647	63	479	-77%
1914	665	0.000469519	60	605	-82%
1915	887	0.000484058	75	812	-83%
1916	894	0.000462155	74	820	-83%
1917	941	0.000468917	84	857	-82%
1918	935	0.000430655	73	862	-84%
1919	897	0.000425069	80	817	-82%
1920	910	0.000402185	81	829	-82%
1921	966	0.000413792	88	878	-82%
1922	880	0.000384421	88	792	-80%
1923	930	0.000403912	99	831	-79%
1924	934	0.000392172	100	834	-79%
1925	881	0.000377577	93	788	-79%
1926	865	0.000376758	80	785	-82%
1927	889	0.000383296	97	792	-78%
1928	828	0.00036622	100	728	-76%
1929	728	0.000332092	74	654	-80%
1930	782	0.000351731	80	702	-80%
1931	683	0.00032456	64	619	-81%
1932	729	0.000345286	68	661	-81%
1933	662	0.000331092	83	579	-75%
1934	625	0.000300941	55	570	-82%
1935	620	0.000296665	70	550	-77%
1936	567	0.000272914	66	501	-77%
1937	637	0.000298967	61	576	-81%
1938	612	0.000276601	58	554	-81%
1939	578	0.000262317	52	526	-82%
1940	693	0.000300953	68	625	-80%
1941	655	0.000268837	51	604	-84%
1942	813	0.000297604	53	760	-87%
1943	684	0.000242333	66	618	-81%
1944	685	0.000254639	72	613	-79%
1945	727	0.000274039	68	659	-81%
1946	841	0.000263198	61	780	-85%
1947	968	0.000268716	84	884	-83%
1948	892	0.000258362	69	823	-85%
1949	855	0.000245353	65	790	-85%
1950	855	0.000244052	58	797	-86%
1951	880	0.000238888	69	811	-84%
1952	842	0.000221695	82	760	-81%
1953	776	0.000201368	48	728	-88%
1954	765	0.000192177	57	708	-85%
1955	732	0.000182313	51	681	-86%
1956	757	0.000183603	54	703	-86%
1957	693	0.000164916	56	637	-84%
1958	645	0.000156027	40	605	-88%
1959	634	0.000152477	38	596	-88%
1960	632	0.000152149	33	599	-90%
1961	599	0.000144606	47	552	-84%
1962	539	0.000133569	38	501	-86%
1963	450	0.000113688	35	415	-84%
1964	462	0.000118839	43	419	-81%
1965	433	0.000119433	25	408	-88%
1966	424	0.000121991	25	399	-88%
1967	394	0.000116057	20	374	-90%
1968	355	0.000105079	21	334	-88%
1969	442	0.000127182	31	411	-86%
1970	370	0.000102592	21	349	-89%
1971	362	0.000105467	25	337	-86%
1972	367	0.000116768	20	347	-89%
1973	349	0.000115682	32	317	-82%
1974	296	0.000097368	20	276	-86%
1975	338	0.000111943	16	322	-91%
1976	276	0.00009096	12	264	-91%
1977	320	0.00010074	14	306	-91%
1978	322	0.000101453	15	307	-91%
1979	297	0.00008927	15	282	-90%
1980	299	0.000086805	17	282	-89%
1981	294	0.000084986	18	276	-88%
1982	282	0.000080389	26	256	-82%
1983	245	0.000070741	12	233	-90%
1984	230	0.000065926	19	211	-83%
1985	170	0.000047631	9	161	-89%
1986	215	0.000060443	18	197	-83%
1987	182	0.000050477	6	176	-93%
1988	162	0.000043843	14	148	-83%
1989	170	0.00004422	12	158	-86%
1990	165	0.000041746	14	151	-83%
1991	159	0.000040819	11	148	-86%
1992	137	0.000035665	8	129	-88%
1993	121	0.000032093	12	109	-80%
1994	124	0.000033354	15	109	-76%
1995	121	0.000033041	9	112	-85%
1996	134	0.000036741	11	123	-84%
1997	116	0.000031993	8	108	-86%
1998	104	0.000028275	8	96	-85%
1999	99	0.000026801		99	-100%
2000	101	0.00002672		101	-100%
2001	98	0.000026179	10	88	-80%
2002	146	0.000039055	9	137	-88%
2003	118	0.000031034	13	105	-78%
2004	119	0.000031144	12	107	-80%
2005	105	0.000027309	11	94	-79%
2006	120	0.000030332	18	102	-70%
2007	128	0.000032019	17	111	-73%
2008	114	0.000029003	16	98	-72%
2009	152	0.000039789	25	127	-67%
2010	169	0.000045728	38	131	-55%
2011	156	0.000042649	46	110	-41%
2012	210	0.000057418	60	150	-43%
2013	234	0.000064186	78	156	-33%
2014	264	0.000071229	104	160	-21%
2015	296	0.00007998	97	199	-34%
2016	343	0.000093494	125	218	-27%
2017	342	0.000095632	128	214	-25%
2018	363	0.000103245	147	216	-19%
2019	408	0.000117548	157	251	-23%
2020	440	0.000131714	152	288	-31%
2021	469	0.000138432	168	301	-28%
2022	484	0.000143063	196	288	-19%
2023	427	0.000128956	161	266	-25%
2024	384	0.000115367	154	230	-20%

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