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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Karol” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karol” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Karol” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karol” 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
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 16 0.000008732 16 -100%
1916 18 0.000009305 18 -100%
1917 20 0.000009966 20 -100%
1918 20 0.000009212 5 15 -50%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 -100%
1920 13 0.000005745 13 -100%
1921 25 0.000010709 8 17 -36%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 18 0.000007818 6 12 -33%
1924 19 0.000007978 7 12 -26%
1925 20 0.000008572 7 13 -30%
1926 16 0.000006969 7 9 -13%
1927 19 0.000008192 9 10 -5%
1928 20 0.000008846 10 10 0%
1929 20 0.000009123 11 9 10%
1930 34 0.000015293 16 18 -6%
1931 22 0.000010454 13 9 18%
1932 30 0.000014209 20 10 33%
1933 47 0.000023506 38 9 62%
1934 63 0.000030335 52 11 65%
1935 65 0.000031102 49 16 51%
1936 89 0.000042838 79 10 78%
1937 97 0.000045526 86 11 77%
1938 117 0.00005288 104 13 78%
1939 129 0.000058545 112 17 74%
1940 150 0.000065141 137 13 83%
1941 164 0.000067312 151 13 84%
1942 184 0.000067354 172 12 87%
1943 197 0.000069795 184 13 87%
1944 228 0.000084756 214 14 88%
1945 223 0.000084059 211 12 89%
1946 226 0.000070729 216 10 91%
1947 267 0.000074119 250 17 87%
1948 239 0.000069225 232 7 94%
1949 190 0.000054523 184 6 94%
1950 207 0.000059086 200 7 93%
1951 214 0.000058093 205 9 92%
1952 248 0.000065297 236 12 90%
1953 198 0.00005138 190 8 92%
1954 214 0.000053759 207 7 93%
1955 223 0.000055541 214 9 92%
1956 213 0.000051661 203 10 91%
1957 257 0.000061159 251 6 95%
1958 263 0.00006362 256 7 95%
1959 258 0.000062049 253 5 96%
1960 225 0.000054167 225 100%
1961 231 0.000055766 225 6 95%
1962 209 0.000051792 203 6 94%
1963 190 0.000048002 190 100%
1964 225 0.000057876 220 5 96%
1965 181 0.000049925 181 100%
1966 162 0.00004661 157 5 94%
1967 144 0.000042417 139 5 93%
1968 126 0.000037296 126 100%
1969 115 0.00003309 110 5 91%
1970 99 0.00002745 99 100%
1971 83 0.000024182 83 100%
1972 54 0.000017181 54 100%
1973 59 0.000019557 54 5 83%
1974 38 0.0000125 38 100%
1975 34 0.000011261 34 100%
1976 35 0.000011535 35 100%
1977 27 0.0000085 27 100%
1978 34 0.000010712 34 100%
1979 43 0.000012925 30 13 40%
1980 40 0.000011613 35 5 75%
1981 22 0.00000636 22 100%
1982 29 0.000008267 19 10 31%
1983 39 0.000011261 32 7 64%
1984 29 0.000008312 21 8 45%
1985 23 0.000006444 15 8 30%
1986 21 0.000005904 21 100%
1987 32 0.000008875 25 7 56%
1988 32 0.00000866 22 10 38%
1989 38 0.000009884 27 11 42%
1990 56 0.000014168 41 15 46%
1991 43 0.000011039 35 8 63%
1992 38 0.000009893 25 13 32%
1993 49 0.000012996 32 17 31%
1994 43 0.000011566 31 12 44%
1995 44 0.000012015 32 12 45%
1996 59 0.000016177 42 17 42%
1997 39 0.000010756 30 9 54%
1998 50 0.000013594 37 13 48%
1999 60 0.000016243 45 15 50%
2000 60 0.000015873 48 12 60%
2001 53 0.000014158 39 14 47%
2002 58 0.000015515 43 15 48%
2003 41 0.000010783 34 7 66%
2004 77 0.000020152 59 18 53%
2005 448 0.00011652 316 132 41%
2006 209 0.000052829 137 72 31%
2007 212 0.000053031 149 63 41%
2008 137 0.000034854 87 50 27%
2009 136 0.0000356 97 39 43%
2010 108 0.000029223 78 30 44%
2011 137 0.000037454 100 37 46%
2012 163 0.000044568 132 31 62%
2013 90 0.000024687 66 24 47%
2014 104 0.00002806 77 27 48%
2015 84 0.000022697 66 18 57%
2016 62 0.0000169 43 19 39%
2017 50 0.000013981 36 14 44%
2018 52 0.00001479 44 8 69%
2019 77 0.000022184 72 5 87%
2020 66 0.000019757 55 11 67%
2021 62 0.0000183 52 10 68%
2022 59 0.000017439 59 100%
2023 67 0.000020234 61 6 82%
2024 40 0.000012017 40 100%

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