Name Trends

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How popular is “Kathy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kathy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kathy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kathy” 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
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 100%
1916 8 0.000004136 8 100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 100%
1920 10 0.00000442 10 100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 34 0.000014809 34 100%
1927 35 0.00001509 35 100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 100%
1929 35 0.000015966 35 100%
1930 29 0.000013044 29 100%
1931 40 0.000019008 40 100%
1932 58 0.000027472 58 100%
1933 45 0.000022507 45 100%
1934 79 0.00003804 79 100%
1935 99 0.000047373 99 100%
1936 136 0.000065463 136 100%
1937 157 0.000073687 157 100%
1938 246 0.000111183 246 100%
1939 365 0.000165653 365 100%
1940 604 0.000262312 604 100%
1941 946 0.000388287 946 100%
1942 1545 0.000565576 1537 8 99%
1943 2044 0.000724179 2033 11 99%
1944 2422 0.000900369 2417 5 100%
1945 2753 0.001037752 2753 100%
1946 4188 0.001310696 4179 9 100%
1947 5718 0.001587354 5697 21 99%
1948 6157 0.001783356 6148 9 100%
1949 8466 0.002429468 8451 15 100%
1950 9112 0.002600899 9090 22 100%
1951 10431 0.002831614 10407 24 100%
1952 12394 0.003263267 12368 26 100%
1953 13412 0.003480374 13399 13 100%
1954 14195 0.003565947 14175 20 100%
1955 15356 0.003824593 15324 32 100%
1956 17202 0.004172119 17177 25 100%
1957 20286 0.004827133 20236 50 100%
1958 23983 0.005803134 23938 45 100%
1959 21852 0.005257027 21813 39 100%
1960 18523 0.004458763 18481 42 100%
1961 16426 0.003966745 16383 43 99%
1962 14787 0.00366464 14755 32 100%
1963 12244 0.003093021 12217 27 100%
1964 10399 0.002674865 10375 24 100%
1965 7783 0.002146664 7762 21 99%
1966 6332 0.001821827 6319 13 100%
1967 5425 0.001597933 5405 20 99%
1968 4688 0.001387575 4676 12 99%
1969 4766 0.001371256 4752 14 99%
1970 4809 0.001333304 4797 12 100%
1971 3880 0.001130377 3863 17 99%
1972 3044 0.000968403 3032 12 99%
1973 2383 0.000789826 2371 12 99%
1974 1927 0.000633839 1920 7 99%
1975 1701 0.000563295 1689 12 99%
1976 1388 0.000457386 1382 6 99%
1977 1406 0.000442597 1406 100%
1978 1139 0.000358832 1134 5 99%
1979 1118 0.000336007 1113 5 99%
1980 1017 0.000295224 1010 7 99%
1981 956 0.000276333 956 100%
1982 887 0.000252838 880 7 98%
1983 770 0.000222322 765 5 99%
1984 675 0.00019348 670 5 99%
1985 617 0.000172877 617 100%
1986 571 0.000160531 571 100%
1987 517 0.000143394 517 100%
1988 527 0.000142634 522 5 98%
1989 469 0.000121999 469 100%
1990 477 0.000120695 477 100%
1991 472 0.000121181 472 100%
1992 474 0.000123407 474 100%
1993 444 0.000117772 444 100%
1994 454 0.00012213 454 100%
1995 409 0.000111691 409 100%
1996 445 0.000122021 445 100%
1997 389 0.000107295 389 100%
1998 386 0.000104949 386 100%
1999 361 0.000097736 361 100%
2000 379 0.000100275 379 100%
2001 343 0.000091635 343 100%
2002 362 0.000096849 362 100%
2003 307 0.000080752 307 100%
2004 283 0.000074077 283 100%
2005 286 0.000074398 286 100%
2006 293 0.000074077 293 100%
2007 294 0.000073562 294 100%
2008 268 0.000068203 268 100%
2009 204 0.00005342 204 100%
2010 190 0.000051429 190 100%
2011 171 0.000046768 171 100%
2012 175 0.00004787 175 100%
2013 139 0.000038149 139 100%
2014 142 0.000038335 142 100%
2015 126 0.000034069 126 100%
2016 159 0.000043373 159 100%
2017 110 0.000030789 110 100%
2018 91 0.000025913 91 100%
2019 76 0.000021928 76 100%
2020 83 0.000024895 83 100%
2021 72 0.000021304 72 100%
2022 75 0.000022309 75 100%