How popular is “Jose” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jose” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jose” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jose” 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	84	0.000416907		84	-100%
1881	75	0.00038923		75	-100%
1882	95	0.00042883		95	-100%
1883	74	0.000341099		74	-100%
1884	112	0.000460033		112	-100%
1885	111	0.00046086		111	-100%
1886	85	0.000332921		85	-100%
1887	95	0.000384006		95	-100%
1888	99	0.00033058		99	-100%
1889	80	0.000276868		80	-100%
1890	93	0.000308559		93	-100%
1891	82	0.00028604	5	77	-88%
1892	111	0.000331964	5	106	-91%
1893	84	0.000258284		84	-100%
1894	94	0.00027754		94	-100%
1895	104	0.000296279		104	-100%
1896	109	0.000304909	5	104	-91%
1897	91	0.00026228	6	85	-87%
1898	116	0.000304099	6	110	-90%
1899	90	0.000265304		90	-100%
1900	161	0.000357573		161	-100%
1901	132	0.00038171	5	127	-92%
1902	125	0.00032322		125	-100%
1903	141	0.000369885		141	-100%
1904	144	0.000356891		144	-100%
1905	205	0.00048358	5	200	-95%
1906	154	0.000359434		154	-100%
1907	170	0.000365285		170	-100%
1908	192	0.00039292		192	-100%
1909	218	0.000426428	5	213	-95%
1910	255	0.000431683	6	249	-95%
1911	268	0.000415969		268	-100%
1912	356	0.000360301		356	-100%
1913	438	0.000385187	6	432	-97%
1914	552	0.000389736		552	-100%
1915	666	0.000363453	7	659	-98%
1916	698	0.000360832	12	686	-97%
1917	815	0.000406129	15	800	-96%
1918	880	0.000405322	9	871	-98%
1919	1040	0.000492834	14	1026	-97%
1920	1252	0.000553335	11	1241	-98%
1921	1229	0.00052645	19	1210	-97%
1922	1275	0.000556974	18	1257	-97%
1923	1340	0.000581981	15	1325	-98%
1924	1416	0.000594556	23	1393	-97%
1925	1464	0.000627437	15	1449	-98%
1926	1504	0.000655079	30	1474	-96%
1927	1666	0.000718302	30	1636	-96%
1928	1801	0.000796572	31	1770	-97%
1929	1711	0.000780508	19	1692	-98%
1930	1645	0.000739895	45	1600	-95%
1931	1382	0.000656723	22	1360	-97%
1932	1334	0.000631841	18	1316	-97%
1933	1190	0.000595165	19	1171	-97%
1934	1237	0.000595623	16	1221	-97%
1935	1187	0.00056797	19	1168	-97%
1936	1131	0.000544384	12	1119	-98%
1937	1106	0.000519086	20	1086	-96%
1938	1171	0.000529248	13	1158	-98%
1939	1123	0.000509657	25	1098	-96%
1940	1182	0.000513314	13	1169	-98%
1941	1214	0.000498271	20	1194	-97%
1942	1329	0.000486489	19	1310	-97%
1943	1389	0.000492107	16	1373	-98%
1944	1532	0.0005695	20	1512	-97%
1945	1624	0.000612158	16	1608	-98%
1946	1879	0.00058805	20	1859	-98%
1947	2119	0.000588232	28	2091	-97%
1948	2278	0.000659808	16	2262	-99%
1949	2465	0.000707363	25	2440	-98%
1950	2659	0.000758986	21	2638	-98%
1951	2721	0.000738652	37	2684	-97%
1952	2720	0.000716165	31	2689	-98%
1953	3045	0.000790161	28	3017	-98%
1954	3260	0.00081895	30	3230	-98%
1955	3333	0.00083012	24	3309	-99%
1956	3434	0.000832881	36	3398	-98%
1957	3498	0.000832432	26	3472	-99%
1958	3456	0.000836014	31	3425	-98%
1959	3604	0.000866765	24	3580	-99%
1960	3959	0.0009531	44	3915	-98%
1961	3795	0.000916157	39	3756	-98%
1962	3861	0.000956789	35	3826	-98%
1963	4052	0.001023698	39	4013	-98%
1964	4000	0.001028911	26	3974	-99%
1965	4007	0.001105242	42	3965	-98%
1966	4225	0.001215598	32	4193	-98%
1967	4457	0.001312853	41	4416	-98%
1968	4836	0.001431441	43	4793	-98%
1969	5242	0.001508349	57	5185	-98%
1970	5751	0.001594615	60	5691	-98%
1971	6062	0.001766134	58	6004	-98%
1972	5994	0.001907099	59	5935	-98%
1973	6154	0.002039851	58	6096	-98%
1974	6787	0.002232566	66	6721	-98%
1975	7048	0.002334243	81	6967	-98%
1976	7145	0.002354744	84	7061	-98%
1977	6994	0.002201799	76	6918	-98%
1978	7238	0.002280497	91	7147	-97%
1979	7939	0.002386234	91	7848	-98%
1980	8410	0.002441569	88	8322	-98%
1981	8848	0.002557687	75	8773	-98%
1982	8701	0.002480358	79	8622	-98%
1983	8147	0.002352354	73	8074	-98%
1984	8096	0.002320599	83	8013	-98%
1985	8492	0.002379305	90	8402	-98%
1986	8454	0.00237667	91	8363	-98%
1987	8816	0.002445076	78	8738	-98%
1988	9107	0.002464653	99	9008	-98%
1989	10413	0.002708582	83	10330	-98%
1990	11631	0.002942711	113	11518	-98%
1991	11824	0.00303548	96	11728	-98%
1992	11917	0.003102357	95	11822	-98%
1993	11920	0.00316157	73	11847	-99%
1994	11808	0.003176197	79	11729	-99%
1995	11853	0.003236619	73	11780	-99%
1996	12219	0.003350246	64	12155	-99%
1997	11976	0.003303042	49	11927	-99%
1998	12420	0.003376645	45	12375	-99%
1999	12209	0.003305208	54	12155	-99%
2000	12640	0.003344	55	12585	-99%
2001	12198	0.003258544	56	12142	-99%
2002	12916	0.003455055	48	12868	-99%
2003	12426	0.003268006	32	12394	-99%
2004	12233	0.003201582	46	12187	-99%
2005	12102	0.003147591	37	12065	-99%
2006	11635	0.002940962	32	11603	-99%
2007	11277	0.002820884	25	11252	-100%
2008	9847	0.002505174	22	9825	-100%
2009	8830	0.002311412	12	8818	-100%
2010	7720	0.002088892	19	7701	-100%
2011	6774	0.001851937	11	6763	-100%
2012	6054	0.001655289	13	6041	-100%
2013	5633	0.001545122	6	5627	-100%
2014	5495	0.00148258	10	5485	-100%
2015	5187	0.001401546	11	5176	-100%
2016	5130	0.001398316	11	5119	-100%
2017	4819	0.001347522	6	4813	-100%
2018	4327	0.001230696	9	4318	-100%
2019	4138	0.001192187	6	4132	-100%
2020	3864	0.001156686	10	3854	-99%
2021	4008	0.001183017	7	4001	-100%
2022	4038	0.001193568	8	4030	-100%
2023	3728	0.001125877	8	3720	-100%
2024	3774	0.001133844	6	3768	-100%

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