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How popular is “Jenny” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jenny” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jenny” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jenny” 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
1880 13 0.000064521 13 100%
1881 15 0.000077846 15 100%
1882 16 0.000072224 16 100%
1883 11 0.000050704 11 100%
1884 17 0.000069826 17 100%
1885 17 0.000070582 17 100%
1886 16 0.000062667 16 100%
1887 18 0.000072759 18 100%
1888 24 0.000080141 24 100%
1889 20 0.000069217 20 100%
1890 17 0.000056403 17 100%
1891 17 0.000059301 17 100%
1892 27 0.000080748 27 100%
1893 24 0.000073796 24 100%
1894 25 0.000073814 25 100%
1895 23 0.000065523 23 100%
1896 29 0.000081123 29 100%
1897 23 0.000066291 23 100%
1898 25 0.000065539 25 100%
1899 27 0.000079591 27 100%
1900 39 0.000086617 39 100%
1901 26 0.000075185 26 100%
1902 24 0.000062058 24 100%
1903 29 0.000076076 29 100%
1904 16 0.000039655 16 100%
1905 18 0.000042461 18 100%
1906 35 0.00008169 35 100%
1907 45 0.000096693 45 100%
1908 35 0.000071626 35 100%
1909 39 0.000076287 39 100%
1910 41 0.000069408 41 100%
1911 41 0.000063637 41 100%
1912 72 0.00007287 72 100%
1913 80 0.000070354 80 100%
1914 84 0.000059308 84 100%
1915 106 0.000057847 106 100%
1916 136 0.000070305 136 100%
1917 131 0.00006528 131 100%
1918 142 0.000065404 142 100%
1919 146 0.000069186 146 100%
1920 188 0.000083089 188 100%
1921 178 0.000076247 178 100%
1922 174 0.000076011 174 100%
1923 189 0.000082085 189 100%
1924 212 0.000089015 212 100%
1925 207 0.000088715 201 6 94%
1926 211 0.000091903 211 100%
1927 227 0.000097872 222 5 96%
1928 190 0.000084036 185 5 95%
1929 216 0.000098533 203 13 88%
1930 235 0.000105699 235 100%
1931 232 0.000110246 222 10 91%
1932 207 0.000098044 199 8 92%
1933 225 0.000112531 219 6 95%
1934 156 0.000075115 156 100%
1935 194 0.000092827 186 8 92%
1936 174 0.000083751 174 100%
1937 184 0.000086358 176 8 91%
1938 197 0.000089037 197 100%
1939 185 0.00008396 173 12 87%
1940 247 0.000107266 238 9 93%
1941 259 0.000106303 247 12 91%
1942 289 0.00010579 273 16 89%
1943 310 0.000109829 293 17 89%
1944 306 0.000113751 296 10 93%
1945 310 0.000116853 302 8 95%
1946 405 0.000126748 396 9 96%
1947 546 0.000151569 533 13 95%
1948 474 0.000137291 466 8 97%
1949 543 0.000155821 536 7 97%
1950 575 0.000164128 568 7 98%
1951 668 0.000181337 660 8 98%
1952 783 0.000206161 777 6 98%
1953 756 0.000196178 756 100%
1954 836 0.000210013 827 9 98%
1955 767 0.00019103 759 8 98%
1956 767 0.000186028 759 8 98%
1957 1125 0.000267721 1117 8 99%
1958 1216 0.000294153 1203 13 98%
1959 1287 0.000309524 1275 12 98%
1960 1360 0.00032741 1351 9 99%
1961 1258 0.000303696 1249 9 99%
1962 1406 0.000348419 1396 10 99%
1963 1302 0.000328937 1302 100%
1964 1146 0.000294783 1146 100%
1965 995 0.000274449 987 8 98%
1966 866 0.000249162 858 8 98%
1967 775 0.000228284 767 8 98%
1968 863 0.000255445 856 7 98%
1969 1040 0.000299253 1040 100%
1970 1416 0.000392623 1409 7 99%
1971 2260 0.00065844 2239 21 98%
1972 2645 0.000841554 2636 9 99%
1973 2071 0.000686469 2066 5 100%
1974 2146 0.000705921 2131 15 99%
1975 2072 0.00068623 2064 8 99%
1976 2436 0.000802821 2425 11 99%
1977 2700 0.000849994 2688 12 99%
1978 2627 0.000827696 2617 10 99%
1979 2643 0.000794409 2627 16 99%
1980 2664 0.000773406 2646 18 99%
1981 2415 0.000698103 2401 14 99%
1982 2469 0.000703827 2455 14 99%
1983 2260 0.000652549 2247 13 99%
1984 2149 0.000615979 2136 13 99%
1985 1822 0.000510491 1812 10 99%
1986 1645 0.000462458 1632 13 98%
1987 1714 0.00047537 1701 13 98%
1988 1419 0.000384028 1401 18 97%
1989 1295 0.000336849 1289 6 99%
1990 1348 0.000341052 1337 11 98%
1991 1268 0.000325523 1263 5 99%
1992 1140 0.000296777 1140 100%
1993 1019 0.000270272 1019 100%
1994 987 0.00026549 982 5 99%
1995 989 0.00027006 979 10 98%
1996 1012 0.000277474 1012 100%
1997 874 0.000241054 874 100%
1998 778 0.000211516 778 100%
1999 758 0.000205205 758 100%
2000 828 0.000219053 828 100%
2001 810 0.000216381 810 100%
2002 840 0.000224702 840 100%
2003 709 0.000186465 709 100%
2004 685 0.000179276 685 100%
2005 613 0.000159434 613 100%
2006 667 0.000168597 667 100%
2007 616 0.000154089 616 100%
2008 512 0.000130258 512 100%
2009 406 0.000106278 406 100%
2010 350 0.000094704 350 100%
2011 362 0.000098967 362 100%
2012 308 0.000084214 308 100%
2013 336 0.000092164 336 100%
2014 336 0.000090655 336 100%
2015 281 0.000075927 281 100%
2016 235 0.000064055 235 100%
2017 260 0.000072703 260 100%
2018 220 0.000062573 220 100%
2019 196 0.000056469 196 100%
2020 153 0.0000458 153 100%
2021 146 0.000043094 146 100%
2022 165 0.000048771 165 100%
2023 174 0.000052549 174 100%
2024 162 0.000048671 162 100%

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