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How popular is “Jeremy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jeremy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jeremy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jeremy” 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
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 -100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 -100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 -100%
1929 12 0.000005474 12 -100%
1930 17 0.000007646 17 -100%
1931 14 0.000006653 14 -100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 -100%
1933 17 0.000008502 17 -100%
1934 19 0.000009149 19 -100%
1935 35 0.000016747 5 30 -71%
1936 32 0.000015403 5 27 -69%
1937 29 0.000013611 29 -100%
1938 28 0.000012655 28 -100%
1939 35 0.000015884 35 -100%
1940 38 0.000016502 38 -100%
1941 37 0.000015186 37 -100%
1942 53 0.000019401 53 -100%
1943 42 0.00001488 42 -100%
1944 60 0.000022304 8 52 -73%
1945 66 0.000024878 66 -100%
1946 79 0.000024724 7 72 -82%
1947 56 0.000015546 6 50 -79%
1948 72 0.000020854 5 67 -86%
1949 84 0.000024105 5 79 -88%
1950 72 0.000020552 72 -100%
1951 87 0.000023617 87 -100%
1952 105 0.000027646 5 100 -90%
1953 108 0.000028025 7 101 -87%
1954 108 0.000027131 108 -100%
1955 118 0.000029389 6 112 -90%
1956 103 0.000024982 5 98 -90%
1957 99 0.000023559 7 92 -86%
1958 113 0.000027335 5 108 -91%
1959 120 0.00002886 120 -100%
1960 162 0.000039 5 157 -94%
1961 192 0.000046351 7 185 -93%
1962 171 0.000042375 171 -100%
1963 201 0.000050781 201 -100%
1964 213 0.00005479 213 -100%
1965 285 0.000078611 5 280 -96%
1966 286 0.000082287 286 -100%
1967 396 0.000116646 396 -100%
1968 640 0.000189438 640 -100%
1969 2094 0.000602534 11 2083 -99%
1970 4343 0.00120421 25 4318 -99%
1971 7543 0.002197617 44 7499 -99%
1972 7432 0.002364624 33 7399 -99%
1973 9424 0.00312375 60 9364 -99%
1974 13388 0.004403949 92 13296 -99%
1975 15262 0.005054657 73 15189 -99%
1976 20254 0.006675016 126 20128 -99%
1977 21750 0.006847172 139 21611 -99%
1978 19633 0.006185824 123 19510 -99%
1979 21141 0.006354373 134 21007 -99%
1980 20032 0.005815638 140 19892 -99%
1981 19219 0.005555628 108 19111 -99%
1982 16572 0.00472411 107 16465 -99%
1983 14348 0.004142823 91 14257 -99%
1984 13339 0.003823427 87 13252 -99%
1985 13530 0.003790861 84 13446 -99%
1986 16388 0.004607152 120 16268 -99%
1987 14582 0.004044249 109 14473 -99%
1988 13261 0.003588862 91 13170 -99%
1989 13158 0.003422599 78 13080 -99%
1990 11732 0.002968265 43 11689 -99%
1991 10440 0.002680177 38 10402 -99%
1992 9072 0.002361717 30 9042 -99%
1993 8598 0.002280468 21 8577 -100%
1994 8255 0.002220487 28 8227 -99%
1995 7100 0.001938749 16 7084 -100%
1996 6430 0.001762999 18 6412 -99%
1997 5812 0.001602979 8 5804 -100%
1998 5559 0.001511334 18 5541 -99%
1999 5030 0.001361717 14 5016 -99%
2000 4753 0.001257439 15 4738 -99%
2001 4282 0.001143883 12 4270 -99%
2002 4172 0.001116018 6 4166 -100%
2003 3895 0.001024375 7 3888 -100%
2004 3885 0.00101677 19 3866 -99%
2005 3497 0.00090953 10 3487 -99%
2006 3453 0.00087281 7 3446 -100%
2007 3436 0.000859498 6 3430 -100%
2008 3263 0.000830139 7 3256 -100%
2009 2943 0.000770384 2943 -100%
2010 2822 0.000763582 2822 -100%
2011 2526 0.000690581 2526 -100%
2012 2842 0.000777062 6 2836 -100%
2013 2528 0.000693426 2528 -100%
2014 2527 0.000681798 5 2522 -100%
2015 2393 0.000646597 2393 -100%
2016 2134 0.000581678 2134 -100%
2017 2052 0.000573794 5 2047 -100%
2018 1974 0.00056145 5 1969 -99%
2019 1767 0.000509085 1767 -100%
2020 1605 0.000480456 1605 -100%
2021 1483 0.000437728 1483 -100%
2022 1437 0.000424754 1437 -100%
2023 1418 0.000428244 1418 -100%
2024 1308 0.00039297 1308 -100%

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