How popular is “Joplin” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Joplin” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Joplin” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1978	5	0.000001575		5	-100%
2000	9	0.000002381	9		100%
2001	9	0.000002404	9		100%
2002	5	0.000001338	5		100%
2003	8	0.000002104	8		100%
2004	6	0.00000157	6		100%
2005	6	0.000001561	6		100%
2006	5	0.000001264	5		100%
2008	13	0.000003307	13		100%
2009	14	0.000003665	14		100%
2010	11	0.000002976	11		100%
2011	15	0.000004101	15		100%
2012	20	0.000005468	20		100%
2013	18	0.000004937	18		100%
2014	17	0.000004587	17		100%
2015	18	0.000004864	18		100%
2016	25	0.000006814	25		100%
2017	19	0.000005313	19		100%
2018	15	0.000004266	15		100%
2019	27	0.000007779	27		100%
2020	24	0.000007184	24		100%
2021	21	0.000006198	21		100%
2022	15	0.000004434	15		100%
2023	10	0.00000302	10		100%
2024	13	0.000003906	13		100%

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