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How popular is “Joann” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joann” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Joann” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joann” 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
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 100%
1903 10 0.000026233 10 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1906 13 0.000030342 13 100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 100%
1908 16 0.000032743 16 100%
1909 15 0.000029341 15 100%
1910 20 0.000033858 20 100%
1911 28 0.00004346 28 100%
1912 23 0.000023278 23 100%
1913 31 0.000027262 31 100%
1914 58 0.000040951 58 100%
1915 65 0.000035472 65 100%
1916 72 0.000037221 72 100%
1917 90 0.000044849 90 100%
1918 113 0.000052047 113 100%
1919 93 0.000044071 93 100%
1920 143 0.0000632 143 100%
1921 153 0.000065539 153 100%
1922 206 0.000089989 206 100%
1923 257 0.000111619 257 100%
1924 386 0.000162075 386 100%
1925 470 0.000201431 470 100%
1926 627 0.000273095 622 5 98%
1927 784 0.000338025 784 100%
1928 1001 0.000442737 1001 100%
1929 1556 0.000709802 1550 6 99%
1930 2137 0.000961189 2131 6 99%
1931 2666 0.001266877 2655 11 99%
1932 3129 0.001482032 3115 14 99%
1933 3220 0.001610445 3209 11 99%
1934 4170 0.002007881 4149 21 99%
1935 3927 0.001879037 3913 14 99%
1936 3898 0.001876223 3886 12 99%
1937 3951 0.001854346 3936 15 99%
1938 3723 0.001682656 3710 13 99%
1939 4010 0.00181988 3993 17 99%
1940 3811 0.001655024 3790 21 99%
1941 4290 0.001760777 4275 15 99%
1942 4518 0.001653844 4506 12 99%
1943 4475 0.001585441 4463 12 99%
1944 3992 0.001483971 3974 18 99%
1945 3477 0.001310636 3465 12 99%
1946 3959 0.001239005 3945 14 99%
1947 4283 0.001188955 4276 7 100%
1948 3808 0.001102963 3799 9 100%
1949 3530 0.001012978 3523 7 100%
1950 3608 0.001029869 3600 8 100%
1951 3428 0.000930576 3422 6 100%
1952 3271 0.000861242 3266 5 100%
1953 3176 0.000824155 3171 5 100%
1954 3070 0.00077122 3063 7 100%
1955 2935 0.000730994 2935 100%
1956 3011 0.000730287 3003 8 99%
1957 3063 0.000728914 3057 6 100%
1958 3709 0.000897215 3700 9 100%
1959 3464 0.000833094 3457 7 100%
1960 3425 0.000824543 3410 15 99%
1961 3359 0.000810902 3349 10 99%
1962 3118 0.000772667 3112 6 100%
1963 2665 0.000673286 2652 13 99%
1964 2741 0.000705061 2736 5 100%
1965 2406 0.000663642 2395 11 99%
1966 2128 0.000612259 2117 11 99%
1967 1794 0.00052844 1794 100%
1968 1691 0.000500531 1676 15 98%
1969 1643 0.000472762 1635 8 99%
1970 1569 0.000435046 1558 11 99%
1971 1388 0.000404387 1380 8 99%
1972 1106 0.000351894 1100 6 99%
1973 1040 0.000344726 1040 100%
1974 1058 0.000348026 1058 100%
1975 945 0.000312977 938 7 99%
1976 801 0.000263982 801 100%
1977 726 0.000228554 726 100%
1978 591 0.000186208 586 5 98%
1979 635 0.000190863 635 100%
1980 599 0.0001739 599 100%
1981 506 0.000146269 506 100%
1982 515 0.000146809 509 6 98%
1983 453 0.000130799 448 5 98%
1984 459 0.000131566 451 8 97%
1985 399 0.000111793 399 100%
1986 369 0.000103737 369 100%
1987 355 0.000098458 355 100%
1988 331 0.000089579 331 100%
1989 310 0.000080636 310 100%
1990 312 0.000078938 312 100%
1991 279 0.000071625 279 100%
1992 228 0.000059355 228 100%
1993 219 0.000058086 219 100%
1994 197 0.00005299 197 100%
1995 184 0.000050244 184 100%
1996 170 0.000046611 170 100%
1997 179 0.000049369 172 7 92%
1998 171 0.00004649 164 7 92%
1999 132 0.000035735 132 100%
2000 146 0.000038625 140 6 92%
2001 132 0.000035262 132 100%
2002 122 0.000032635 117 5 92%
2003 133 0.000034979 125 8 88%
2004 125 0.000032715 116 9 86%
2005 104 0.000027049 99 5 90%
2006 102 0.000025782 96 6 88%
2007 102 0.000025515 102 100%
2008 93 0.00002366 87 6 87%
2009 98 0.000025653 98 100%
2010 74 0.000020023 74 100%
2011 73 0.000019957 73 100%
2012 62 0.000016952 56 6 81%
2013 68 0.000018652 68 100%
2014 71 0.000019156 71 100%
2015 87 0.000023508 87 100%
2016 70 0.00001908 70 100%
2017 75 0.000020972 75 100%
2018 75 0.000021332 75 100%
2019 68 0.000019591 62 6 82%
2020 68 0.000020356 63 5 85%
2021 56 0.000016529 56 100%
2022 78 0.000023056 78 100%
2023 58 0.000017516 53 5 83%
2024 52 0.000015623 52 100%

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