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How popular is “Jesse” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jesse” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jesse” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jesse” 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 574 0.002848862 5 569 -98%
1881 541 0.002807648 5 536 -98%
1882 665 0.00300181 5 660 -98%
1883 590 0.002719571 6 584 -98%
1884 684 0.002809485 14 670 -96%
1885 571 0.002370731 15 556 -95%
1886 620 0.002428363 6 614 -98%
1887 611 0.002469765 10 601 -97%
1888 649 0.002167133 12 637 -96%
1889 590 0.002041904 14 576 -95%
1890 586 0.001944254 10 576 -97%
1891 530 0.001848796 11 519 -96%
1892 616 0.001842248 14 602 -95%
1893 553 0.001700372 12 541 -96%
1894 578 0.001706575 11 567 -96%
1895 588 0.001675118 11 577 -96%
1896 601 0.001681194 15 586 -95%
1897 539 0.001553507 10 529 -96%
1898 491 0.001287177 15 476 -94%
1899 440 0.00129704 17 423 -92%
1900 546 0.001212638 10 536 -96%
1901 424 0.0012261 13 411 -94%
1902 452 0.001168765 15 437 -93%
1903 404 0.001059811 16 388 -92%
1904 455 0.001127675 12 443 -95%
1905 466 0.001099259 23 443 -90%
1906 451 0.001052629 15 436 -93%
1907 476 0.001022798 10 466 -96%
1908 490 0.001002765 8 482 -97%
1909 535 0.001046508 18 517 -93%
1910 601 0.001017418 11 590 -96%
1911 612 0.0009499 16 596 -95%
1912 1133 0.001146689 27 1106 -95%
1913 1245 0.001094881 31 1214 -95%
1914 1483 0.001047062 26 1457 -96%
1915 2154 0.001175491 43 2111 -96%
1916 2261 0.001168828 31 2230 -97%
1917 2225 0.001108758 25 2200 -98%
1918 2489 0.001146418 56 2433 -96%
1919 2404 0.001139204 48 2356 -96%
1920 2456 0.001085456 36 2420 -97%
1921 2531 0.00108417 45 2486 -96%
1922 2430 0.001061527 35 2395 -97%
1923 2423 0.001052343 36 2387 -97%
1924 2347 0.000985468 55 2292 -95%
1925 2425 0.0010393 52 2373 -96%
1926 2351 0.001023997 53 2298 -95%
1927 2363 0.001018816 45 2318 -96%
1928 2212 0.000978355 41 2171 -96%
1929 2072 0.000945186 42 2030 -96%
1930 2063 0.000927905 28 2035 -97%
1931 1930 0.000917131 35 1895 -96%
1932 1894 0.000897081 31 1863 -97%
1933 1828 0.000914253 24 1804 -97%
1934 1876 0.000903306 23 1853 -98%
1935 1895 0.000906742 29 1866 -97%
1936 1846 0.000888535 19 1827 -98%
1937 1883 0.00088376 19 1864 -98%
1938 1941 0.000877259 29 1912 -97%
1939 2037 0.000924463 27 2010 -97%
1940 2230 0.000968435 25 2205 -98%
1941 2201 0.000903373 17 2184 -98%
1942 2421 0.000886223 24 2397 -98%
1943 2449 0.000867652 24 2425 -98%
1944 2333 0.000867261 22 2311 -98%
1945 2208 0.000832294 21 2187 -98%
1946 2481 0.000776451 14 2467 -99%
1947 2778 0.000771169 27 2751 -98%
1948 2726 0.000789569 21 2705 -98%
1949 2724 0.000781686 20 2704 -99%
1950 2635 0.000752136 28 2607 -98%
1951 2707 0.000734851 37 2670 -97%
1952 2757 0.000725907 36 2721 -97%
1953 2846 0.000738522 28 2818 -98%
1954 2785 0.000699624 25 2760 -98%
1955 2812 0.00070036 26 2786 -98%
1956 2651 0.000642973 25 2626 -98%
1957 2762 0.000657284 25 2737 -98%
1958 2510 0.000607174 21 2489 -98%
1959 2455 0.000590429 15 2440 -99%
1960 2409 0.000579949 34 2375 -97%
1961 2341 0.000565145 36 2305 -97%
1962 2302 0.000570455 29 2273 -97%
1963 2260 0.000570967 31 2229 -97%
1964 2215 0.00056976 30 2185 -97%
1965 2234 0.0006162 22 2212 -98%
1966 2355 0.00067757 39 2316 -97%
1967 2216 0.000652744 30 2186 -97%
1968 2174 0.000643497 28 2146 -97%
1969 2429 0.000698928 51 2378 -96%
1970 2820 0.000781918 52 2768 -96%
1971 3054 0.000889768 51 3003 -97%
1972 3278 0.001042955 52 3226 -97%
1973 3503 0.001161131 61 3442 -97%
1974 4189 0.001377961 83 4106 -96%
1975 4553 0.001507918 117 4436 -95%
1976 5437 0.001791847 136 5301 -95%
1977 5986 0.001884468 163 5823 -95%
1978 6298 0.001984328 191 6107 -94%
1979 6907 0.002076044 227 6680 -93%
1980 8669 0.002516761 293 8376 -93%
1981 10824 0.003128889 380 10444 -93%
1982 9812 0.002797066 308 9504 -94%
1983 8726 0.002519534 257 8469 -94%
1984 7896 0.002263271 287 7609 -93%
1985 8501 0.002381826 279 8222 -93%
1986 8896 0.002500929 354 8542 -92%
1987 8304 0.002303075 322 7982 -92%
1988 8230 0.002227308 318 7912 -92%
1989 9169 0.002384998 314 8855 -93%
1990 9324 0.002359026 347 8977 -93%
1991 8706 0.002235021 338 8368 -92%
1992 8874 0.002310172 312 8562 -93%
1993 8599 0.002280733 336 8263 -92%
1994 9039 0.002431373 357 8682 -92%
1995 7862 0.002146823 367 7495 -91%
1996 7364 0.002019086 289 7075 -92%
1997 6183 0.001705303 263 5920 -91%
1998 5715 0.001553746 271 5444 -91%
1999 5359 0.001450783 355 5004 -87%
2000 4767 0.001261143 282 4485 -88%
2001 4417 0.001179946 195 4222 -91%
2002 4621 0.001236126 190 4431 -92%
2003 4778 0.001256602 172 4606 -93%
2004 4941 0.001293143 181 4760 -93%
2005 4919 0.001279375 173 4746 -93%
2006 4492 0.001135436 122 4370 -95%
2007 4247 0.001062365 117 4130 -94%
2008 4074 0.001036466 120 3954 -94%
2009 3793 0.000992886 108 3685 -94%
2010 3386 0.00091619 108 3278 -94%
2011 3054 0.00083493 81 2973 -95%
2012 2791 0.000763117 80 2711 -94%
2013 2639 0.000723873 70 2569 -95%
2014 2542 0.000685845 73 2469 -94%
2015 2423 0.000654703 66 2357 -95%
2016 2376 0.000647641 67 2309 -94%
2017 2181 0.000609866 76 2105 -93%
2018 2226 0.000633124 82 2144 -93%
2019 2037 0.000586874 59 1978 -94%
2020 1949 0.000583432 64 1885 -93%
2021 1974 0.000582653 69 1905 -93%
2022 2027 0.000599148 52 1975 -95%
2023 1895 0.000572301 72 1823 -92%
2024 2053 0.000616794 73 1980 -93%

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