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 0.000044298 102 100%
1941 136 0.000055821 136 100%
1942 198 0.000072482 198 100%
1943 337 0.000119397 337 100%
1944 684 0.000254274 684 100%
1945 985 0.000371299 985 100%
1946 1739 0.000544246 1733 6 99%
1947 2010 0.000557989 2010 100%
1948 1882 0.000545115 1882 100%
1949 2618 0.000751281 2618 100%
1950 2809 0.000801792 2801 8 99%
1951 2983 0.000809769 2974 9 99%
1952 3532 0.000929955 3526 6 100%
1953 3382 0.000877619 3374 8 100%
1954 3976 0.000998817 3966 10 99%
1955 4123 0.001026882 4123 100%
1956 4717 0.001144046 4709 8 100%
1957 5496 0.001307795 5484 12 100%
1958 5894 0.001426163 5881 13 100%
1959 6243 0.001501905 6233 10 100%
1960 7256 0.001746628 7243 13 100%
1961 9293 0.002244184 9262 31 99%
1962 11004 0.002727105 10980 24 100%
1963 11783 0.002976565 11758 25 100%
1964 12988 0.003340816 12954 34 99%
1965 15240 0.004203413 15206 34 100%
1966 18266 0.005255449 18214 52 99%
1967 18305 0.005391737 18238 67 99%
1968 26916 0.007966715 26850 66 100%
1969 33800 0.009724811 33702 98 99%
1970 46272 0.012828997 46153 119 99%
1971 56969 0.016597029 56775 194 99%
1972 63792 0.020294473 63602 190 99%
1973 62666 0.020770131 62446 220 99%
1974 63295 0.020819314 63110 185 99%
1975 58413 0.019343782 58188 225 99%
1976 59674 0.019664316 59474 200 99%
1977 59143 0.018617731 58964 179 99%
1978 56526 0.017808001 56323 203 99%
1979 56923 0.017107798 56718 205 99%
1980 58592 0.017008632 58381 211 99%
1981 57240 0.016545324 57048 192 99%
1982 57302 0.016333826 57119 183 99%
1983 54546 0.015749082 54350 196 99%
1984 50765 0.014551115 50561 204 99%
1985 42818 0.011997151 42657 161 99%
1986 36348 0.010218864 36185 163 99%
1987 32818 0.009102359 32705 113 99%
1988 28005 0.007579655 27891 114 99%
1989 24145 0.006280723 23999 146 99%
1990 22321 0.005647875 22234 87 99%
1991 20739 0.005324535 20673 66 99%
1992 17878 0.004654561 17820 58 99%
1993 15800 0.004191 15750 50 99%
1994 14045 0.003778223 14000 45 99%
1995 12737 0.003478261 12682 55 99%
1996 11764 0.003225737 11729 35 99%
1997 11876 0.003275661 11839 37 99%
1998 10717 0.002913827 10691 26 100%
1999 10642 0.002881187 10614 28 99%
2000 9421 0.00249258 9389 32 99%
2001 8947 0.002390268 8921 26 99%
2002 8566 0.002291726 8539 27 99%
2003 7584 0.001994865 7566 18 100%
2004 6568 0.00171921 6545 23 99%
2005 5851 0.001522046 5836 15 99%
2006 5283 0.00133567 5267 16 99%
2007 4659 0.001165727 4652 7 100%
2008 3810 0.000969607 3795 15 99%
2009 2992 0.000783487 2987 5 100%
2010 2627 0.000711071 2621 6 100%
2011 2285 0.000624947 2279 6 99%
2012 1930 0.000527941 1925 5 99%
2013 1691 0.000464095 1691 100%
2014 1527 0.000412236 1521 6 99%
2015 1286 0.000347719 1286 100%
2016 1167 0.000318343 1161 6 99%
2017 1050 0.000293891 1050 100%
2018 920 0.000261978 920 100%
2019 787 0.000227075 787 100%
2020 711 0.000213259 711 100%
2021 634 0.00018759 634 100%
2022 624 0.00018561 624 100%