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How popular is “Joel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Joel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joel” 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 41 0.00020349 41 -100%
1881 57 0.000295815 57 -100%
1882 54 0.000243756 54 -100%
1883 51 0.000235082 51 -100%
1884 56 0.000230016 56 -100%
1885 56 0.000232506 56 -100%
1886 49 0.000191919 49 -100%
1887 48 0.000194024 48 -100%
1888 48 0.000160281 48 -100%
1889 37 0.000128052 37 -100%
1890 37 0.00012276 37 -100%
1891 31 0.000108137 31 -100%
1892 39 0.000116636 39 -100%
1893 52 0.00015989 52 -100%
1894 44 0.000129912 44 -100%
1895 37 0.000105407 37 -100%
1896 37 0.000103501 37 -100%
1897 31 0.000089348 31 -100%
1898 48 0.000125834 48 -100%
1899 37 0.000109069 37 -100%
1900 35 0.000077733 35 -100%
1901 34 0.000098319 34 -100%
1902 38 0.000098259 38 -100%
1903 32 0.000083945 32 -100%
1904 43 0.000106571 43 -100%
1905 48 0.000113228 48 -100%
1906 49 0.000114365 49 -100%
1907 54 0.000116032 54 -100%
1908 45 0.000092091 45 -100%
1909 50 0.000097804 50 -100%
1910 55 0.000093108 55 -100%
1911 59 0.000091575 59 -100%
1912 134 0.000135619 5 129 -93%
1913 167 0.000146864 167 -100%
1914 200 0.000141209 200 -100%
1915 278 0.000151711 6 272 -96%
1916 289 0.000149399 7 282 -95%
1917 314 0.000156472 6 308 -96%
1918 357 0.000164432 9 348 -95%
1919 367 0.000173913 9 358 -95%
1920 346 0.000152919 346 -100%
1921 407 0.000174341 12 395 -94%
1922 380 0.000166 12 368 -94%
1923 360 0.000156353 12 348 -93%
1924 390 0.000163755 13 377 -93%
1925 395 0.000169288 16 379 -92%
1926 389 0.000169432 10 379 -95%
1927 403 0.000173755 11 392 -95%
1928 426 0.000188417 11 415 -95%
1929 434 0.000197978 14 420 -94%
1930 471 0.000211848 16 455 -93%
1931 487 0.000231421 10 477 -96%
1932 637 0.000301711 14 623 -96%
1933 679 0.000339594 13 666 -96%
1934 837 0.000403021 22 815 -95%
1935 949 0.000454089 30 919 -94%
1936 1092 0.000525612 32 1060 -94%
1937 1142 0.000535982 26 1116 -95%
1938 1282 0.000579416 20 1262 -97%
1939 1319 0.000598609 24 1295 -96%
1940 1302 0.000565427 24 1278 -96%
1941 1356 0.000556553 17 1339 -97%
1942 1620 0.000593012 25 1595 -97%
1943 1774 0.000628508 29 1745 -97%
1944 1736 0.000645334 22 1714 -97%
1945 1621 0.000611027 24 1597 -97%
1946 2023 0.000633116 24 1999 -98%
1947 2174 0.0006035 30 2144 -97%
1948 2051 0.000594059 25 2026 -98%
1949 2000 0.000573925 13 1987 -99%
1950 2071 0.000591147 28 2043 -97%
1951 2176 0.000590704 14 2162 -99%
1952 2255 0.000593733 26 2229 -98%
1953 2324 0.000603066 22 2302 -98%
1954 2626 0.000659682 30 2596 -98%
1955 2830 0.000704843 24 2806 -98%
1956 3459 0.000838945 23 3436 -99%
1957 3630 0.000863845 26 3604 -99%
1958 3254 0.000787149 30 3224 -98%
1959 3473 0.000835259 15 3458 -99%
1960 3733 0.000898692 23 3710 -99%
1961 3545 0.000855805 25 3520 -99%
1962 3318 0.000822229 20 3298 -99%
1963 3254 0.000822091 19 3235 -99%
1964 3158 0.000812325 22 3136 -99%
1965 2898 0.000799349 37 2861 -97%
1966 3333 0.000958956 103 3230 -94%
1967 3550 0.001045687 72 3478 -96%
1968 3752 0.001110581 69 3683 -96%
1969 3755 0.001080475 75 3680 -96%
1970 3883 0.001076663 43 3840 -98%
1971 3546 0.00103311 47 3499 -97%
1972 3570 0.00113586 42 3528 -98%
1973 3597 0.001192289 27 3570 -98%
1974 3544 0.00116579 52 3492 -97%
1975 3769 0.001248264 41 3728 -98%
1976 3759 0.001238836 34 3725 -98%
1977 3870 0.001218324 47 3823 -98%
1978 3853 0.001213975 43 3810 -98%
1979 4256 0.001279231 40 4216 -98%
1980 4612 0.001338944 47 4565 -98%
1981 4587 0.001325962 47 4540 -98%
1982 4486 0.001278805 40 4446 -98%
1983 4394 0.001268718 49 4345 -98%
1984 4568 0.00130935 44 4524 -98%
1985 4661 0.001305928 38 4623 -98%
1986 4555 0.001280545 49 4506 -98%
1987 4173 0.001157362 35 4138 -98%
1988 3981 0.001077389 42 3939 -98%
1989 3964 0.001031098 24 3940 -99%
1990 4037 0.001021385 37 4000 -98%
1991 3799 0.000975287 39 3760 -98%
1992 3689 0.000960359 24 3665 -99%
1993 3587 0.000951389 29 3558 -98%
1994 3392 0.000912404 24 3368 -99%
1995 3125 0.000853323 25 3100 -98%
1996 3027 0.000829953 23 3004 -98%
1997 3008 0.000829622 19 2989 -99%
1998 3187 0.000866455 15 3172 -99%
1999 3201 0.000866572 17 3184 -99%
2000 3395 0.000898171 15 3380 -99%
2001 3182 0.000850032 15 3167 -99%
2002 3206 0.000857611 15 3191 -99%
2003 3256 0.00085632 11 3245 -99%
2004 3248 0.000850056 12 3236 -99%
2005 3286 0.000854651 13 3273 -99%
2006 3469 0.000876854 14 3455 -99%
2007 3432 0.000858497 10 3422 -99%
2008 3752 0.000954546 9 3743 -100%
2009 3569 0.00093425 5 3564 -100%
2010 3074 0.000831769 9 3065 -99%
2011 3069 0.000839031 13 3056 -99%
2012 2778 0.000759563 2778 -100%
2013 2727 0.000748011 2727 -100%
2014 2681 0.000723348 11 2670 -99%
2015 2607 0.000704421 5 2602 -100%
2016 2437 0.000664268 10 2427 -99%
2017 2267 0.000633914 6 2261 -99%
2018 2140 0.000608664 8 2132 -99%
2019 2100 0.000605025 6 2094 -99%
2020 1842 0.000551402 1842 -100%
2021 1804 0.000532476 7 1797 -99%
2022 1780 0.000526139 1780 -100%
2023 1749 0.000528208 8 1741 -99%
2024 1640 0.000492714 7 1633 -99%

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