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How popular is “Katharine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Katharine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Katharine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Katharine” 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 76 0.000377201 76 100%
1881 68 0.000352902 68 100%
1882 82 0.000370148 82 100%
1883 79 0.000364146 79 100%
1884 86 0.000353239 86 100%
1885 78 0.000323848 78 100%
1886 90 0.000352504 90 100%
1887 110 0.000444638 110 100%
1888 108 0.000360632 108 100%
1889 119 0.000411842 119 100%
1890 119 0.000394823 119 100%
1891 117 0.000408131 117 100%
1892 123 0.000367852 123 100%
1893 128 0.000393576 128 100%
1894 140 0.000413357 140 100%
1895 145 0.000413082 145 100%
1896 151 0.000422397 151 100%
1897 145 0.000417919 145 100%
1898 125 0.000327693 125 100%
1899 104 0.000306573 104 100%
1900 141 0.000313154 141 100%
1901 106 0.000306525 106 100%
1902 89 0.000230133 89 100%
1903 126 0.000330535 126 100%
1904 109 0.000270146 109 100%
1905 121 0.00028543 121 100%
1906 133 0.000310421 133 100%
1907 122 0.000262146 122 100%
1908 155 0.000317201 155 100%
1909 144 0.000281677 144 100%
1910 157 0.000265781 157 100%
1911 148 0.000229714 148 100%
1912 261 0.000264153 261 100%
1913 236 0.000207544 236 100%
1914 290 0.000204753 290 100%
1915 344 0.000187729 344 100%
1916 336 0.000173696 336 100%
1917 357 0.0001779 357 100%
1918 372 0.000171341 372 100%
1919 353 0.000167279 353 100%
1920 349 0.000154244 349 100%
1921 329 0.000140929 329 100%
1922 291 0.000127121 291 100%
1923 266 0.000115528 266 100%
1924 265 0.000111269 265 100%
1925 236 0.000101144 236 100%
1926 214 0.000093209 214 100%
1927 226 0.000097441 226 100%
1928 201 0.000088901 201 100%
1929 195 0.000088953 195 100%
1930 205 0.000092206 205 100%
1931 166 0.000078883 166 100%
1932 177 0.000083835 177 100%
1933 152 0.000076021 152 100%
1934 167 0.000080412 167 100%
1935 170 0.000081344 170 100%
1936 182 0.000087602 182 100%
1937 160 0.000075094 160 100%
1938 164 0.000074122 164 100%
1939 181 0.000082144 181 100%
1940 160 0.000069484 160 100%
1941 223 0.000091528 223 100%
1942 259 0.000094809 259 100%
1943 280 0.000099201 280 100%
1944 256 0.000095164 256 100%
1945 282 0.000106298 282 100%
1946 300 0.000093888 300 100%
1947 350 0.00009716 350 100%
1948 334 0.000096741 334 100%
1949 345 0.000099002 345 100%
1950 373 0.000106469 373 100%
1951 321 0.00008714 321 100%
1952 359 0.000094523 359 100%
1953 337 0.00008745 337 100%
1954 322 0.00008089 322 100%
1955 416 0.000103609 416 100%
1956 405 0.000098229 405 100%
1957 408 0.000097093 408 100%
1958 405 0.00009797 405 100%
1959 366 0.000088023 366 100%
1960 304 0.000073186 304 100%
1961 331 0.000079907 331 100%
1962 291 0.000072112 291 100%
1963 307 0.000077561 307 100%
1964 289 0.000074339 289 100%
1965 285 0.000078611 285 100%
1966 300 0.000086315 300 100%
1967 270 0.000079531 270 100%
1968 370 0.000109519 370 100%
1969 367 0.000105602 367 100%
1970 409 0.000113406 409 100%
1971 320 0.00009323 320 100%
1972 309 0.000098314 309 100%
1973 269 0.000089165 269 100%
1974 344 0.000113158 344 100%
1975 345 0.000114261 345 100%
1976 367 0.00012095 367 100%
1977 435 0.000136943 435 100%
1978 422 0.000132961 422 100%
1979 628 0.000188759 628 100%
1980 572 0.000166062 572 100%
1981 792 0.000228943 792 100%
1982 947 0.000269957 947 100%
1983 839 0.000242252 839 100%
1984 858 0.000245933 852 6 99%
1985 846 0.000237034 841 5 99%
1986 907 0.000254985 907 100%
1987 728 0.000201907 728 100%
1988 755 0.000204328 755 100%
1989 628 0.000163352 628 100%
1990 647 0.000163695 647 100%
1991 687 0.000176368 687 100%
1992 708 0.000184314 708 100%
1993 654 0.000173462 654 100%
1994 542 0.000145791 542 100%
1995 465 0.000126974 465 100%
1996 432 0.000118447 432 100%
1997 407 0.000112253 407 100%
1998 453 0.000123158 453 100%
1999 320 0.00008663 320 100%
2000 362 0.00009577 362 100%
2001 334 0.000089224 334 100%
2002 286 0.000076506 286 100%
2003 375 0.000098624 375 100%
2004 323 0.000084535 323 100%
2005 301 0.000078287 301 100%
2006 293 0.000074061 293 100%
2007 256 0.000064037 256 100%
2008 191 0.000048592 191 100%
2009 160 0.000041883 160 100%
2010 127 0.000034364 127 100%
2011 134 0.000036634 134 100%
2012 110 0.000030076 110 100%
2013 109 0.000029899 109 100%
2014 89 0.000024013 89 100%
2015 89 0.000024048 89 100%
2016 62 0.0000169 62 100%
2017 73 0.000020413 73 100%
2018 56 0.000015928 56 100%
2019 66 0.000019015 66 100%
2020 45 0.000013471 45 100%
2021 31 0.00000915 31 100%
2022 42 0.000012415 42 100%
2023 34 0.000010268 34 100%
2024 28 0.000008412 28 100%

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