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How popular is “Island” in the USA?

Number of people named “Island” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Island” by birth year

This chart shows how “Island” 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
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 17 0.000004449 17 100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 100%
2006 14 0.000003539 8 6 14%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2013 20 0.000005486 20 100%
2014 16 0.000004317 16 100%
2015 20 0.000005404 20 100%
2016 32 0.000008722 32 100%
2017 30 0.000008389 25 5 67%
2018 29 0.000008248 29 100%
2019 54 0.000015558 46 8 70%
2020 68 0.000020356 58 10 71%
2021 71 0.000020957 62 9 75%
2022 54 0.000015962 41 13 52%
2023 81 0.000024462 62 19 53%
2024 90 0.000027039 68 22 51%

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