How popular is “Joan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Joan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joan” 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	12	0.000059558	12		100%
1881	6	0.000031138	6		100%
1882	11	0.000049654	11		100%
1883	6	0.000027657	6		100%
1884	11	0.000045182	11		100%
1885	9	0.000037367	9		100%
1886	16	0.000062667	16		100%
1887	15	0.000060633	15		100%
1888	14	0.000046749	14		100%
1889	21	0.000072678	21		100%
1890	18	0.000059721	18		100%
1891	14	0.000048836	14		100%
1892	32	0.000095701	32		100%
1893	22	0.000067646	22		100%
1894	21	0.000062004	21		100%
1895	28	0.000079768	28		100%
1896	31	0.000086717	31		100%
1897	33	0.000095113	33		100%
1898	40	0.000104862	40		100%
1899	28	0.000082539	28		100%
1900	57	0.000126594	57		100%
1901	52	0.000150371	52		100%
1902	65	0.000168075	65		100%
1903	68	0.000178384	63	5	85%
1904	73	0.000180924	73		100%
1905	104	0.000245328	104		100%
1906	94	0.000219395	94		100%
1907	109	0.000234212	109		100%
1908	104	0.000212832	104		100%
1909	142	0.000277765	142		100%
1910	196	0.000331804	196		100%
1911	240	0.00037251	233	7	94%
1912	322	0.00032589	317	5	97%
1913	411	0.000361443	411		100%
1914	584	0.000412329	578	6	98%
1915	791	0.000431668	784	7	98%
1916	833	0.000430621	823	10	98%
1917	1061	0.000528716	1048	13	98%
1918	1393	0.000641607	1384	9	99%
1919	1263	0.000598509	1247	16	97%
1920	1663	0.000734981	1647	16	98%
1921	1801	0.00077147	1790	11	99%
1922	2026	0.000885042	2010	16	98%
1923	2322	0.001008477	2304	18	98%
1924	3038	0.001275608	3023	15	99%
1925	4057	0.001738738	4030	27	99%
1926	5022	0.002187373	4995	27	99%
1927	6065	0.002614948	6032	33	99%
1928	7890	0.003489702	7854	36	99%
1929	11721	0.005346779	11666	55	99%
1930	15546	0.006992347	15478	68	99%
1931	19200	0.009123793	19119	81	99%
1932	21132	0.010009042	21044	88	99%
1933	19358	0.009681677	19294	64	99%
1934	19550	0.009413448	19465	85	99%
1935	18311	0.008761663	18221	90	99%
1936	17151	0.008255286	17071	80	99%
1937	15389	0.007222611	15301	88	99%
1938	14374	0.006496506	14303	71	99%
1939	14208	0.006448093	14143	65	99%
1940	13355	0.005799751	13292	63	99%
1941	13455	0.005522436	13380	75	99%
1942	14581	0.005337471	14514	67	99%
1943	13285	0.004706722	13232	53	99%
1944	11973	0.004450799	11920	53	99%
1945	10418	0.003927008	10394	24	100%
1946	11248	0.003520163	11219	29	99%
1947	11302	0.003137421	11276	26	100%
1948	9294	0.002691948	9275	19	100%
1949	9245	0.002652968	9206	39	99%
1950	8888	0.002536994	8860	28	99%
1951	9425	0.002558542	9403	22	100%
1952	10302	0.002712477	10277	25	100%
1953	9803	0.002543826	9774	29	99%
1954	9550	0.002399071	9521	29	99%
1955	8589	0.002139185	8557	32	99%
1956	8105	0.001965784	8080	25	99%
1957	7615	0.001812171	7584	31	99%
1958	6806	0.001646386	6786	20	99%
1959	6369	0.001531749	6337	32	99%
1960	5909	0.001422548	5880	29	99%
1961	5570	0.001344663	5551	19	99%
1962	4902	0.001214758	4880	22	99%
1963	4588	0.001159113	4562	26	99%
1964	4179	0.001074955	4149	30	99%
1965	3298	0.00090968	3279	19	99%
1966	2739	0.000788053	2722	17	99%
1967	2319	0.000683084	2304	15	99%
1968	1813	0.000536643	1783	30	97%
1969	1580	0.000454634	1566	14	98%
1970	1323	0.000366836	1308	15	98%
1971	1039	0.000302708	1022	17	97%
1972	743	0.000236399	729	14	96%
1973	590	0.000195566	579	11	96%
1974	594	0.000195395	577	17	94%
1975	560	0.000185468	550	10	96%
1976	475	0.000156544	462	13	95%
1977	448	0.000141036	433	15	93%
1978	433	0.000136427	419	14	94%
1979	415	0.000124737	401	14	93%
1980	440	0.00012774	422	18	92%
1981	420	0.000121409	403	17	92%
1982	383	0.00010918	360	23	88%
1983	362	0.000104523	347	15	92%
1984	346	0.000099176	327	19	89%
1985	339	0.000094982	316	23	86%
1986	311	0.000087431	285	26	83%
1987	313	0.000086809	280	33	79%
1988	317	0.000085791	280	37	77%
1989	316	0.000082196	280	36	77%
1990	317	0.000080203	271	46	71%
1991	294	0.000075476	256	38	74%
1992	295	0.000076797	252	43	71%
1993	260	0.00006896	214	46	65%
1994	214	0.000057563	171	43	60%
1995	202	0.000055159	161	41	59%
1996	201	0.000055111	135	66	34%
1997	257	0.000070882	144	113	12%
1998	220	0.000059812	129	91	17%
1999	217	0.000058746	125	92	15%
2000	333	0.000088097	163	170	-2%
2001	327	0.000087354	141	186	-14%
2002	332	0.000088811	111	221	-33%
2003	243	0.000063908	104	139	-14%
2004	255	0.000066738	94	161	-26%
2005	278	0.000072305	105	173	-24%
2006	268	0.000067742	80	188	-40%
2007	284	0.000071041	67	217	-53%
2008	241	0.000061313	68	173	-44%
2009	248	0.000064918	70	178	-44%
2010	211	0.000057093	61	150	-42%
2011	207	0.000056592	63	144	-39%
2012	219	0.000059879	79	140	-28%
2013	240	0.000065832	72	168	-40%
2014	225	0.000060706	75	150	-33%
2015	269	0.000072685	99	170	-26%
2016	300	0.000081773	112	188	-25%
2017	300	0.000083888	128	172	-15%
2018	296	0.000084189	118	178	-20%
2019	299	0.000086144	134	165	-10%
2020	309	0.000092499	137	172	-11%
2021	343	0.000101241	158	185	-8%
2022	362	0.000107001	161	201	-11%
2023	365	0.000110232	165	200	-10%
2024	408	0.000122578	188	220	-8%

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