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How popular is “Jedediah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jedediah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jedediah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jedediah” 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
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 31 0.000010275 31 -100%
1974 26 0.000008553 26 -100%
1975 27 0.000008942 27 -100%
1976 56 0.000018456 56 -100%
1977 124 0.000039037 124 -100%
1978 193 0.000060809 193 -100%
1979 248 0.000074542 248 -100%
1980 206 0.000059805 206 -100%
1981 142 0.000041048 142 -100%
1982 116 0.000033068 116 -100%
1983 128 0.000036959 128 -100%
1984 96 0.000027517 96 -100%
1985 96 0.000026897 96 -100%
1986 76 0.000021366 76 -100%
1987 65 0.000018027 65 -100%
1988 67 0.000018132 67 -100%
1989 56 0.000014566 56 -100%
1990 47 0.000011891 47 -100%
1991 60 0.000015403 60 -100%
1992 48 0.000012496 48 -100%
1993 48 0.000012731 48 -100%
1994 48 0.000012911 48 -100%
1995 39 0.000010649 39 -100%
1996 29 0.000007951 29 -100%
1997 34 0.000009377 34 -100%
1998 36 0.000009787 36 -100%
1999 28 0.00000758 28 -100%
2000 35 0.000009259 35 -100%
2001 26 0.000006946 26 -100%
2002 30 0.000008025 30 -100%
2003 38 0.000009994 38 -100%
2004 24 0.000006281 24 -100%
2005 25 0.000006502 25 -100%
2006 20 0.000005055 20 -100%
2007 27 0.000006754 27 -100%
2008 28 0.000007123 28 -100%
2009 21 0.000005497 21 -100%
2010 41 0.000011094 41 -100%
2011 31 0.000008475 31 -100%
2012 42 0.000011484 42 -100%
2013 69 0.000018927 69 -100%
2014 76 0.000020505 76 -100%
2015 60 0.000016212 60 -100%
2016 64 0.000017445 64 -100%
2017 41 0.000011465 41 -100%
2018 49 0.000013937 49 -100%
2019 45 0.000012965 45 -100%
2020 51 0.000015267 51 -100%
2021 66 0.000019481 66 -100%
2022 51 0.000015075 51 -100%
2023 44 0.000013288 44 -100%
2024 48 0.000014421 48 -100%

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