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How popular is “Irma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Irma” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Irma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Irma” 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 30 0.000148895 30 100%
1881 36 0.000186831 36 100%
1882 58 0.000261812 58 100%
1883 53 0.0002443 53 100%
1884 62 0.000254661 62 100%
1885 69 0.000286481 69 100%
1886 81 0.000317254 81 100%
1887 90 0.000363795 90 100%
1888 120 0.000400703 120 100%
1889 134 0.000463754 134 100%
1890 154 0.000510947 154 100%
1891 193 0.000673241 193 100%
1892 194 0.000580189 194 100%
1893 215 0.000661085 215 100%
1894 240 0.000708613 240 100%
1895 247 0.000703664 247 100%
1896 261 0.000730103 261 100%
1897 308 0.000887718 308 100%
1898 319 0.000836272 319 100%
1899 276 0.000813598 276 100%
1900 326 0.000724029 326 100%
1901 304 0.00087909 304 100%
1902 368 0.000951561 368 100%
1903 346 0.00090766 346 100%
1904 360 0.000892226 360 100%
1905 428 0.00100962 428 100%
1906 391 0.00091259 391 100%
1907 409 0.000878833 409 100%
1908 478 0.000978207 478 100%
1909 499 0.000976089 499 100%
1910 547 0.000926003 547 100%
1911 615 0.000954557 615 100%
1912 743 0.000751977 743 100%
1913 830 0.000729921 830 100%
1914 1015 0.000716634 1015 100%
1915 1315 0.000717628 1310 5 99%
1916 1353 0.000699436 1353 100%
1917 1340 0.000667746 1340 100%
1918 1333 0.000613971 1333 100%
1919 1380 0.000653952 1375 5 99%
1920 1393 0.000615652 1393 100%
1921 1386 0.000593702 1376 10 99%
1922 1167 0.000509795 1167 100%
1923 1167 0.000506845 1160 7 99%
1924 1273 0.000534512 1268 5 99%
1925 1238 0.000530579 1230 8 99%
1926 1298 0.000565354 1298 100%
1927 1174 0.000506175 1169 5 99%
1928 1108 0.000490062 1102 6 99%
1929 1081 0.000493121 1074 7 99%
1930 1090 0.000490265 1084 6 99%
1931 943 0.000448111 938 5 99%
1932 951 0.000450435 946 5 99%
1933 823 0.000411614 817 6 99%
1934 840 0.000404465 835 5 99%
1935 843 0.000403369 837 6 99%
1936 756 0.000363885 748 8 98%
1937 807 0.000378754 800 7 98%
1938 776 0.000350723 766 10 97%
1939 751 0.00034083 746 5 99%
1940 759 0.000329615 749 10 97%
1941 774 0.000317679 774 100%
1942 775 0.000283694 770 5 99%
1943 779 0.000275991 773 6 98%
1944 704 0.000261702 704 100%
1945 682 0.000257076 682 100%
1946 781 0.000244421 774 7 98%
1947 858 0.00023818 853 5 99%
1948 849 0.000245907 849 100%
1949 829 0.000237892 824 5 99%
1950 890 0.000254042 890 100%
1951 916 0.00024866 916 100%
1952 859 0.000226171 859 100%
1953 936 0.000242887 931 5 99%
1954 952 0.000239153 952 100%
1955 955 0.000237853 949 6 99%
1956 910 0.000220711 910 100%
1957 1102 0.000262247 1095 7 99%
1958 960 0.000232226 955 5 99%
1959 981 0.000235931 973 8 98%
1960 958 0.000230631 958 100%
1961 847 0.000204476 841 6 99%
1962 778 0.000192795 773 5 99%
1963 771 0.000194786 764 7 98%
1964 686 0.000176458 686 100%
1965 733 0.000202182 728 5 99%
1966 646 0.000185864 641 5 98%
1967 576 0.000169666 576 100%
1968 532 0.00015747 532 100%
1969 574 0.000165164 574 100%
1970 490 0.000135865 490 100%
1971 480 0.000139846 480 100%
1972 420 0.000133631 420 100%
1973 470 0.00015579 470 100%
1974 390 0.00012829 385 5 97%
1975 429 0.000142081 429 100%
1976 371 0.000122269 371 100%
1977 313 0.000098536 313 100%
1978 324 0.000102084 319 5 97%
1979 352 0.000105801 352 100%
1980 333 0.000096676 333 100%
1981 325 0.000093948 318 7 96%
1982 324 0.000092361 319 5 97%
1983 219 0.000063234 219 100%
1984 273 0.000078251 273 100%
1985 211 0.000059118 211 100%
1986 222 0.000062411 222 100%
1987 230 0.000063789 223 7 94%
1988 256 0.000069282 256 100%
1989 264 0.00006867 264 100%
1990 317 0.000080203 312 5 97%
1991 285 0.000073166 285 100%
1992 239 0.000062219 239 100%
1993 228 0.000060473 228 100%
1994 232 0.000062405 232 100%
1995 197 0.000053793 197 100%
1996 188 0.000051546 188 100%
1997 172 0.000047438 172 100%
1998 170 0.000046218 170 100%
1999 190 0.000051437 190 100%
2000 165 0.000043652 165 100%
2001 152 0.000040605 152 100%
2002 162 0.000043335 162 100%
2003 156 0.000041028 156 100%
2004 151 0.000039519 151 100%
2005 119 0.000030951 119 100%
2006 129 0.000032607 129 100%
2007 106 0.000026515 106 100%
2008 111 0.000028239 111 100%
2009 97 0.000025392 97 100%
2010 81 0.000021917 81 100%
2011 72 0.000019684 72 100%
2012 63 0.000017226 63 100%
2013 48 0.000013166 48 100%
2014 67 0.000018077 67 100%
2015 67 0.000018104 67 100%
2016 71 0.000019353 71 100%
2017 71 0.000019854 71 100%
2018 52 0.00001479 52 100%
2019 44 0.000012677 44 100%
2020 69 0.000020655 69 100%
2021 60 0.00001771 60 100%
2022 70 0.000020691 70 100%
2023 68 0.000020536 68 100%
2024 67 0.000020129 67 100%

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