Name Trends

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How popular is “Jennifer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jennifer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jennifer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jennifer” 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
1919 6 0.000002843 6 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 100%
1923 9 0.000003909 9 100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 100%
1930 17 0.000007646 17 100%
1931 26 0.000012355 26 100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 100%
1933 30 0.000015004 30 100%
1934 41 0.000019742 41 100%
1935 36 0.000017226 36 100%
1936 42 0.000020216 42 100%
1937 38 0.000017835 38 100%
1938 51 0.00002305 51 100%
1939 62 0.000028138 62 100%
1940 102 0.000044297 102 100%
1941 136 0.000055821 136 100%
1942 198 0.000072481 198 100%
1943 337 0.000119395 337 100%
1944 684 0.00025427 684 100%
1945 985 0.000371296 985 100%
1946 1739 0.000544241 1733 6 99%
1947 2010 0.000557983 2010 100%
1948 1882 0.000545111 1882 100%
1949 2618 0.000751276 2618 100%
1950 2810 0.000802085 2802 8 99%
1951 2983 0.000809779 2974 9 99%
1952 3532 0.000929962 3526 6 100%
1953 3383 0.000877878 3375 8 100%
1954 3975 0.000998572 3965 10 99%
1955 4123 0.001026891 4123 100%
1956 4717 0.001144059 4709 8 100%
1957 5495 0.001307691 5483 12 100%
1958 5894 0.001425652 5881 13 100%
1959 6243 0.001501905 6233 10 100%
1960 7255 0.001746543 7242 13 100%
1961 9295 0.00224411 9264 31 99%
1962 11001 0.002726515 10977 24 100%
1963 11783 0.002976759 11758 25 100%
1964 12989 0.003341167 12955 34 99%
1965 15240 0.00420358 15206 34 100%
1966 18267 0.005255827 18215 52 99%
1967 18304 0.005391644 18237 67 99%
1968 26918 0.007967765 26852 66 100%
1969 33802 0.009726217 33704 98 99%
1970 46270 0.012829606 46151 119 99%
1971 56964 0.01659653 56770 194 99%
1972 63795 0.020297371 63605 190 99%
1973 62666 0.020771984 62446 220 99%
1974 63292 0.020819737 63107 185 99%
1975 58408 0.019344414 58183 225 99%
1976 59672 0.019665742 59472 200 99%
1977 59143 0.018619437 58964 179 99%
1978 56521 0.017808508 56318 203 99%
1979 56919 0.017108407 56714 205 99%
1980 58590 0.017009774 58379 211 99%
1981 57240 0.016546538 57048 192 99%
1982 57305 0.016335793 57122 183 99%
1983 54548 0.015750404 54352 196 99%
1984 50767 0.014552022 50563 204 99%
1985 42819 0.011997562 42658 161 99%
1986 36350 0.010219441 36187 163 99%
1987 32820 0.009102785 32707 113 99%
1988 28006 0.007579717 27892 114 99%
1989 24146 0.006280935 24000 146 99%
1990 22322 0.005647926 22235 87 99%
1991 20739 0.005324398 20673 66 99%
1992 17877 0.00465416 17819 58 99%
1993 15799 0.004190566 15749 50 99%
1994 14044 0.003777827 14000 44 99%
1995 12738 0.003478408 12683 55 99%
1996 11764 0.003225626 11729 35 99%
1997 11876 0.003275567 11839 37 99%
1998 10717 0.002913742 10691 26 100%
1999 10642 0.002881085 10614 28 99%
2000 9421 0.002492466 9389 32 99%
2001 8947 0.002390159 8921 26 99%
2002 8566 0.002291518 8539 27 99%
2003 7586 0.001995257 7568 18 100%
2004 6568 0.001719087 6545 23 99%
2005 5852 0.001522156 5837 15 99%
2006 5283 0.001335509 5267 16 99%
2007 4660 0.001165799 4653 7 100%
2008 3810 0.000969441 3795 15 99%
2009 2992 0.00078335 2987 5 100%
2010 2628 0.000711203 2622 6 100%
2011 2286 0.000625076 2280 6 99%
2012 1932 0.000528353 1927 5 99%
2013 1691 0.000463948 1691 100%
2014 1527 0.000412099 1521 6 99%
2015 1286 0.000347582 1286 100%
2016 1167 0.000318198 1161 6 99%
2017 1052 0.000294289 1052 100%
2018 921 0.000262083 921 100%
2019 788 0.000227168 788 100%
2020 711 0.000213012 711 100%
2021 637 0.000188201 637 100%
2022 630 0.000186467 630 100%
2023 583 0.000176814 583 100%