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How popular is “Jo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jo” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jo” 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
1881 5 0.000025949 5 100%
1883 9 0.000041485 9 100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 100%
1885 11 0.000045671 11 100%
1886 14 0.000054834 14 100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 100%
1889 11 0.000038069 11 100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 100%
1891 15 0.000052324 15 100%
1892 13 0.000038879 13 100%
1893 9 0.000027673 9 100%
1894 15 0.000044288 15 100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 100%
1896 20 0.000055947 20 100%
1897 16 0.000046115 16 100%
1898 17 0.000044566 17 100%
1899 17 0.000050113 17 100%
1900 24 0.000053303 24 100%
1901 19 0.000054943 19 100%
1902 25 0.000064644 25 100%
1903 29 0.000076076 29 100%
1904 26 0.000064439 26 100%
1905 34 0.000080203 34 100%
1906 34 0.000079356 34 100%
1907 33 0.000070908 33 100%
1908 46 0.000094137 46 100%
1909 41 0.0000802 41 100%
1910 40 0.000067715 40 100%
1911 47 0.00007295 41 6 74%
1912 68 0.000068822 68 100%
1913 98 0.000086183 89 9 82%
1914 108 0.000076253 103 5 91%
1915 138 0.00007531 128 10 86%
1916 163 0.000084263 152 11 87%
1917 152 0.000075744 145 7 91%
1918 214 0.000098567 199 15 86%
1919 238 0.000112783 227 11 91%
1920 256 0.000113142 231 25 80%
1921 268 0.000114799 259 9 93%
1922 315 0.000137605 302 13 92%
1923 399 0.000173291 385 14 93%
1924 547 0.000229677 534 13 95%
1925 649 0.000278147 635 14 96%
1926 827 0.000360207 815 12 97%
1927 991 0.000427273 974 17 97%
1928 1189 0.000525888 1168 21 96%
1929 1620 0.000738997 1593 27 97%
1930 1906 0.000857289 1871 35 96%
1931 2120 0.001007419 2086 34 97%
1932 2406 0.001139587 2388 18 99%
1933 2566 0.001283355 2541 25 98%
1934 3289 0.001583674 3257 32 98%
1935 3330 0.001593378 3296 34 98%
1936 3314 0.001595127 3292 22 99%
1937 3255 0.001527688 3226 29 98%
1938 3200 0.001446279 3172 28 98%
1939 3545 0.001608846 3524 21 99%
1940 3450 0.001498251 3427 23 99%
1941 3789 0.001555147 3757 32 98%
1942 4197 0.00153634 4175 22 99%
1943 4331 0.001534423 4300 31 99%
1944 4247 0.001578764 4226 21 99%
1945 4256 0.001604276 4224 32 98%
1946 5846 0.001829558 5828 18 99%
1947 6754 0.001874902 6724 30 99%
1948 6020 0.001743655 5986 34 99%
1949 5832 0.001673565 5802 30 99%
1950 5707 0.001629009 5676 31 99%
1951 6025 0.001635566 6001 24 99%
1952 7126 0.001876248 7092 34 99%
1953 7537 0.001955811 7513 24 99%
1954 8077 0.002029036 8052 25 99%
1955 7689 0.00191503 7656 33 99%
1956 6984 0.001693897 6954 30 99%
1957 5753 0.001369063 5717 36 99%
1958 5246 0.001269018 5226 20 99%
1959 4081 0.000981483 4054 27 99%
1960 3411 0.000821173 3371 40 98%
1961 2816 0.000679815 2794 22 98%
1962 2478 0.00061407 2449 29 98%
1963 2210 0.000558335 2189 21 98%
1964 2075 0.000533748 2052 23 98%
1965 1863 0.000513867 1851 12 99%
1966 1607 0.000462359 1591 16 98%
1967 1422 0.000418864 1409 13 98%
1968 1334 0.00039486 1325 9 99%
1969 1185 0.000340976 1164 21 96%
1970 1130 0.000313322 1103 27 95%
1971 931 0.000271242 910 21 95%
1972 741 0.000235762 722 19 95%
1973 681 0.000225729 665 16 95%
1974 597 0.000196382 587 10 97%
1975 533 0.000176525 520 13 95%
1976 430 0.000141713 417 13 94%
1977 383 0.000120573 365 18 91%
1978 344 0.000108385 323 21 88%
1979 324 0.000097385 306 18 89%
1980 366 0.000106256 349 17 91%
1981 359 0.000103776 340 19 89%
1982 286 0.000081529 267 19 87%
1983 227 0.000065544 207 20 82%
1984 224 0.000064206 210 14 88%
1985 192 0.000053795 171 21 78%
1986 116 0.000032611 109 7 88%
1987 150 0.000041602 132 18 76%
1988 116 0.000031393 111 5 91%
1989 102 0.000026532 89 13 75%
1990 91 0.000023024 85 6 87%
1991 82 0.000021051 73 9 78%
1992 81 0.000021087 70 11 73%
1993 69 0.000018301 60 9 74%
1994 69 0.00001856 64 5 86%
1995 64 0.000017476 58 6 81%
1996 52 0.000014258 44 8 69%
1997 63 0.000017376 58 5 84%
1998 60 0.000016312 52 8 73%
1999 55 0.00001489 45 10 64%
2000 38 0.000010053 24 14 26%
2001 36 0.000009617 28 8 56%
2002 41 0.000010968 29 12 41%
2003 40 0.00001052 29 11 45%
2004 27 0.000007066 18 9 33%
2005 17 0.000004422 17 100%
2006 32 0.000008089 25 7 56%
2007 30 0.000007504 18 12 20%
2008 24 0.000006106 17 7 42%
2009 18 0.000004712 18 100%
2010 13 0.000003518 6 7 -8%
2011 20 0.000005468 14 6 40%
2012 29 0.000007929 18 11 24%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 100%
2014 24 0.000006475 18 6 50%
2015 27 0.000007295 27 100%
2016 41 0.000011176 34 7 66%
2017 49 0.000013702 40 9 63%
2018 46 0.000013083 40 6 74%
2019 34 0.000009796 34 100%
2020 43 0.000012872 35 8 63%
2021 42 0.000012397 42 100%
2022 36 0.000010641 36 100%
2023 56 0.000016912 47 9 68%
2024 44 0.000013219 33 11 50%

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