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How popular is “Jeferson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jeferson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jeferson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jeferson” 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
1997 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 23 0.000005982 23 -100%
2006 24 0.000006066 24 -100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 -100%
2008 41 0.000010431 41 -100%
2009 29 0.000007591 29 -100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 -100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 -100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 -100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 -100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 -100%
2017 12 0.000003356 12 -100%
2018 12 0.000003413 12 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 -100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 -100%
2022 22 0.000006503 22 -100%
2023 15 0.00000453 15 -100%
2024 17 0.000005107 17 -100%

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