How popular is “Kathleen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kathleen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kathleen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kathleen” 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	21	0.000104227	21		100%
1881	13	0.000067467	13		100%
1882	22	0.000099308	22		100%
1883	21	0.000096798	21		100%
1884	27	0.000110901	27		100%
1885	38	0.000157772	38		100%
1886	43	0.000168419	43		100%
1887	50	0.000202108	50		100%
1888	67	0.000223726	67		100%
1889	87	0.000301094	87		100%
1890	105	0.000348373	105		100%
1891	113	0.000394177	113		100%
1892	149	0.000445609	149		100%
1893	170	0.000522718	170		100%
1894	168	0.000496029	168		100%
1895	192	0.000546977	192		100%
1896	259	0.000724508	259		100%
1897	250	0.00072055	250		100%
1898	306	0.000802192	306		100%
1899	230	0.000677998	230		100%
1900	321	0.000712925	321		100%
1901	272	0.000786555	272		100%
1902	325	0.000840373	325		100%
1903	352	0.0009234	352		100%
1904	362	0.000897183	362		100%
1905	386	0.000910545	386		100%
1906	412	0.000961604	412		100%
1907	440	0.000945444	440		100%
1908	527	0.001078484	527		100%
1909	527	0.001030859	527		100%
1910	622	0.001052968	622		100%
1911	663	0.001029059	663		100%
1912	985	0.000996901	985		100%
1913	1179	0.001036839	1179		100%
1914	1475	0.001041414	1475		100%
1915	1946	0.00106198	1940	6	99%
1916	2162	0.001117649	2154	8	99%
1917	2358	0.001175034	2358		100%
1918	2629	0.001210901	2629		100%
1919	2587	0.001225924	2587		100%
1920	3158	0.001395713	3158		100%
1921	3424	0.001466692	3419	5	100%
1922	3466	0.001514095	3466		100%
1923	3764	0.001634758	3754	10	99%
1924	3670	0.001540974	3663	7	100%
1925	3514	0.00150602	3503	11	99%
1926	3282	0.001429502	3277	5	100%
1927	3274	0.001411597	3265	9	99%
1928	3166	0.001400304	3151	15	99%
1929	2961	0.001350722	2941	20	99%
1930	3090	0.001389833	3074	16	99%
1931	2812	0.001336255	2799	13	99%
1932	2958	0.001401038	2945	13	99%
1933	3136	0.001568434	3121	15	99%
1934	3302	0.001589934	3279	23	99%
1935	3367	0.001611082	3353	14	99%
1936	3364	0.001619193	3352	12	99%
1937	3758	0.001763764	3743	15	99%
1938	4247	0.001919484	4228	19	99%
1939	4674	0.002121227	4656	18	99%
1940	5723	0.00248536	5697	26	99%
1941	7190	0.002951045	7160	30	99%
1942	10732	0.003928519	10696	36	99%
1943	12186	0.004317359	12153	33	99%
1944	13031	0.004844096	13004	27	100%
1945	13837	0.005215782	13802	35	99%
1946	18793	0.005881438	18760	33	100%
1947	22143	0.006146869	22095	48	100%
1948	23295	0.00674725	23257	38	100%
1949	26413	0.00757954	26357	56	100%
1950	25745	0.007348664	25705	40	100%
1951	26749	0.007261372	26716	33	100%
1952	25805	0.006794357	25767	38	100%
1953	23766	0.00616715	23731	35	100%
1954	22496	0.005651256	22455	41	100%
1955	22049	0.005491547	22016	33	100%
1956	21417	0.005194472	21377	40	100%
1957	19778	0.004706646	19742	36	100%
1958	19253	0.004657341	19203	50	99%
1959	17677	0.004251331	17629	48	99%
1960	16117	0.003880048	16085	32	100%
1961	15420	0.003722569	15393	27	100%
1962	14220	0.003523839	14190	30	100%
1963	13571	0.003428579	13542	29	100%
1964	13260	0.00341084	13232	28	100%
1965	11811	0.003257803	11778	33	99%
1966	10525	0.003028206	10492	33	99%
1967	9242	0.002722321	9211	31	99%
1968	8762	0.002593525	8729	33	99%
1969	8322	0.002394598	8298	24	99%
1970	7432	0.002060716	7409	23	99%
1971	6171	0.001797891	6154	17	99%
1972	5118	0.001628384	5096	22	99%
1973	4269	0.001415035	4250	19	99%
1974	3976	0.001307895	3953	23	99%
1975	3563	0.001180038	3545	18	99%
1976	3421	0.001127443	3406	15	99%
1977	3665	0.001153788	3649	16	99%
1978	3760	0.001184674	3743	17	99%
1979	3649	0.001096784	3641	8	100%
1980	3867	0.001122657	3857	10	99%
1981	3790	0.001095574	3776	14	99%
1982	3968	0.001131141	3949	19	99%
1983	3944	0.001138785	3924	20	99%
1984	4010	0.001149407	3985	25	99%
1985	4108	0.001150987	4086	22	99%
1986	4145	0.001165282	4129	16	99%
1987	4185	0.00116069	4165	20	99%
1988	3938	0.001065752	3927	11	99%
1989	3624	0.000942658	3597	27	99%
1990	3684	0.000932074	3670	14	99%
1991	3376	0.000866693	3371	5	100%
1992	3135	0.000816136	3135		100%
1993	2743	0.000727532	2743		100%
1994	2429	0.000653369	2429		100%
1995	2281	0.000622857	2281		100%
1996	2107	0.000577704	2107		100%
1997	1742	0.000480452	1742		100%
1998	1739	0.000472785	1739		100%
1999	1630	0.000441272	1630		100%
2000	1585	0.000419323	1585		100%
2001	1337	0.000357163	1337		100%
2002	1208	0.000323142	1208		100%
2003	1096	0.000288245	1096		100%
2004	1002	0.00026224	1002		100%
2005	934	0.000242923	934		100%
2006	878	0.000221931	878		100%
2007	779	0.000194863	779		100%
2008	704	0.000179105	704		100%
2009	542	0.000141878	542		100%
2010	495	0.000133938	495		100%
2011	451	0.000123298	451		100%
2012	427	0.000116751	427		100%
2013	432	0.000118497	432		100%
2014	422	0.000113858	422		100%
2015	341	0.000092139	341		100%
2016	340	0.000092676	340		100%
2017	314	0.000087803	314		100%
2018	306	0.000087033	306		100%
2019	280	0.00008067	280		100%
2020	253	0.000075735	253		100%
2021	262	0.000077333	262		100%
2022	228	0.000067393	228		100%
2023	248	0.000074897	248		100%
2024	220	0.000066096	220		100%

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