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How popular is “Jerome” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jerome” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jerome” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jerome” 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 52 0.000258085 52 -100%
1881 38 0.00019721 38 -100%
1882 43 0.000194102 43 -100%
1883 36 0.00016594 36 -100%
1884 37 0.000151975 37 -100%
1885 53 0.00022005 53 -100%
1886 50 0.000195836 50 -100%
1887 34 0.000137434 34 -100%
1888 35 0.000116872 35 -100%
1889 48 0.000166121 48 -100%
1890 64 0.000212342 64 -100%
1891 41 0.00014302 41 -100%
1892 45 0.00013458 45 -100%
1893 50 0.000153741 50 -100%
1894 43 0.00012696 43 -100%
1895 58 0.000165233 58 -100%
1896 76 0.000212597 76 -100%
1897 60 0.000172932 60 -100%
1898 50 0.000131077 50 -100%
1899 64 0.00018866 64 -100%
1900 85 0.000188781 85 -100%
1901 68 0.000196639 68 -100%
1902 68 0.000175832 68 -100%
1903 93 0.000243966 93 -100%
1904 102 0.000252798 102 -100%
1905 87 0.000205226 87 -100%
1906 102 0.000238067 102 -100%
1907 99 0.000212725 99 -100%
1908 127 0.0002599 127 -100%
1909 141 0.000275809 141 -100%
1910 196 0.000331804 196 -100%
1911 212 0.00032905 212 -100%
1912 493 0.000498957 7 486 -97%
1913 560 0.000492477 6 554 -98%
1914 745 0.000526002 8 737 -98%
1915 916 0.000499884 9 907 -98%
1916 992 0.000512816 7 985 -99%
1917 1086 0.000541174 13 1073 -98%
1918 1155 0.000531986 9 1146 -98%
1919 1124 0.00053264 15 1109 -97%
1920 1297 0.000573223 12 1285 -98%
1921 1416 0.000606553 8 1408 -99%
1922 1434 0.000626432 11 1423 -98%
1923 1500 0.000651471 13 1487 -98%
1924 1594 0.000669295 19 1575 -98%
1925 1574 0.000674581 11 1563 -99%
1926 1627 0.000708653 15 1612 -98%
1927 1702 0.000733824 16 1686 -98%
1928 1763 0.000779765 12 1751 -99%
1929 1677 0.000764999 14 1663 -98%
1930 1781 0.000801066 13 1768 -99%
1931 1758 0.000835397 11 1747 -99%
1932 1679 0.000795248 11 1668 -99%
1933 1710 0.000855236 17 1693 -98%
1934 1783 0.000858526 10 1773 -99%
1935 2021 0.000967032 12 2009 -99%
1936 1976 0.000951107 9 1967 -99%
1937 1993 0.000935387 14 1979 -99%
1938 2218 0.001002452 9 2209 -99%
1939 2160 0.000980285 7 2153 -99%
1940 2189 0.000950629 11 2178 -99%
1941 2164 0.000888187 8 2156 -99%
1942 2355 0.000862063 15 2340 -99%
1943 2320 0.000821949 12 2308 -99%
1944 1962 0.000729347 9 1953 -99%
1945 1847 0.000696217 7 1840 -99%
1946 2298 0.00071918 12 2286 -99%
1947 2700 0.000749517 11 2689 -99%
1948 2609 0.00075568 18 2591 -99%
1949 2776 0.000796608 7 2769 -99%
1950 2837 0.000809794 7 2830 -100%
1951 3003 0.000815204 13 2990 -99%
1952 3066 0.000807266 21 3045 -99%
1953 3096 0.000803395 17 3079 -99%
1954 3129 0.000786041 16 3113 -99%
1955 3106 0.000773584 23 3083 -99%
1956 3078 0.000746537 16 3062 -99%
1957 3024 0.000719633 21 3003 -99%
1958 2823 0.00068289 20 2803 -99%
1959 2718 0.000653681 21 2697 -98%
1960 2700 0.000650005 28 2672 -98%
1961 2649 0.0006395 16 2633 -99%
1962 2795 0.000692625 24 2771 -98%
1963 2686 0.000678591 24 2662 -98%
1964 2327 0.000598569 11 2316 -99%
1965 2155 0.000594409 11 2144 -99%
1966 1956 0.000562772 12 1944 -99%
1967 1810 0.000533153 13 1797 -99%
1968 1702 0.000503787 17 1685 -98%
1969 1687 0.000485422 16 1671 -98%
1970 1744 0.000483569 21 1723 -98%
1971 1721 0.000501405 14 1707 -98%
1972 1558 0.000495706 12 1546 -98%
1973 1466 0.000485931 17 1449 -98%
1974 1432 0.000471053 16 1416 -98%
1975 1448 0.000479566 11 1437 -98%
1976 1433 0.000472267 21 1412 -97%
1977 1379 0.000434126 16 1363 -98%
1978 1382 0.000435431 11 1371 -98%
1979 1375 0.000413285 15 1360 -98%
1980 1396 0.000405283 11 1385 -98%
1981 1384 0.000400072 20 1364 -97%
1982 1321 0.000376572 14 1307 -98%
1983 1247 0.000360057 13 1234 -98%
1984 1192 0.000341669 12 1180 -98%
1985 1223 0.000342662 12 1211 -98%
1986 1176 0.000330608 10 1166 -98%
1987 1191 0.000330318 11 1180 -98%
1988 1139 0.000308251 12 1127 -98%
1989 1041 0.00027078 7 1034 -99%
1990 1018 0.00025756 1018 -100%
1991 921 0.000236441 6 915 -99%
1992 900 0.000234297 900 -100%
1993 806 0.000213777 5 801 -99%
1994 728 0.000195822 728 -100%
1995 644 0.000175853 644 -100%
1996 599 0.000164236 599 -100%
1997 534 0.00014728 534 -100%
1998 578 0.000157142 578 -100%
1999 513 0.000138879 513 -100%
2000 462 0.000122225 462 -100%
2001 470 0.000125555 470 -100%
2002 472 0.000126261 472 -100%
2003 412 0.000108355 412 -100%
2004 414 0.000108351 414 -100%
2005 429 0.000111578 429 -100%
2006 429 0.000108438 429 -100%
2007 417 0.00010431 417 -100%
2008 400 0.000101764 400 -100%
2009 359 0.000093975 359 -100%
2010 306 0.000082798 306 -100%
2011 306 0.000083657 306 -100%
2012 336 0.000091869 336 -100%
2013 294 0.000080644 294 -100%
2014 287 0.000077434 287 -100%
2015 268 0.000072415 268 -100%
2016 270 0.000073596 270 -100%
2017 255 0.000071305 255 -100%
2018 252 0.000071674 252 -100%
2019 242 0.000069722 242 -100%
2020 211 0.000063163 211 -100%
2021 188 0.000055491 188 -100%
2022 181 0.000053501 181 -100%
2023 186 0.000056173 186 -100%
2024 143 0.000042962 143 -100%

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