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How popular is “Jericho” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jericho” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jericho” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jericho” 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
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 20 0.000006579 20 -100%
1975 19 0.000006293 19 -100%
1976 13 0.000004284 13 -100%
1977 22 0.000006926 22 -100%
1978 15 0.000004726 15 -100%
1979 28 0.000008416 28 -100%
1980 59 0.000017129 30 29 2%
1981 48 0.000013875 19 29 -21%
1982 47 0.000013398 14 33 -40%
1983 40 0.00001155 10 30 -50%
1984 28 0.000008026 8 20 -43%
1985 21 0.000005884 8 13 -24%
1986 21 0.000005904 21 -100%
1987 19 0.00000527 6 13 -37%
1988 41 0.000011096 41 -100%
1989 54 0.000014046 6 48 -78%
1990 75 0.000018975 13 62 -65%
1991 53 0.000013606 7 46 -74%
1992 85 0.000022128 6 79 -86%
1993 73 0.000019362 9 64 -75%
1994 88 0.000023671 10 78 -77%
1995 89 0.000024303 8 81 -82%
1996 76 0.000020838 10 66 -74%
1997 81 0.00002234 81 -100%
1998 77 0.000020934 5 72 -87%
1999 77 0.000020845 11 66 -71%
2000 125 0.00003307 7 118 -89%
2001 132 0.000035262 7 125 -89%
2002 114 0.000030495 5 109 -91%
2003 107 0.000028141 107 -100%
2004 109 0.000028527 6 103 -89%
2005 101 0.000026269 101 -100%
2006 133 0.000033618 5 128 -92%
2007 160 0.000040023 8 152 -90%
2008 168 0.000042741 168 -100%
2009 179 0.000046856 6 173 -93%
2010 168 0.000045458 168 -100%
2011 191 0.000052217 5 186 -95%
2012 191 0.000052223 191 -100%
2013 227 0.000062266 6 221 -95%
2014 232 0.000062595 8 224 -93%
2015 208 0.000056202 6 202 -94%
2016 230 0.000062693 230 -100%
2017 208 0.000058162 9 199 -91%
2018 230 0.000065417 13 217 -89%
2019 237 0.000068281 11 226 -91%
2020 222 0.000066456 8 214 -93%
2021 282 0.000083236 23 259 -84%
2022 266 0.000078625 16 250 -88%
2023 274 0.00008275 12 262 -91%
2024 277 0.000083221 18 259 -87%

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