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 0.000022506 45 100%
1934 79 0.000038039 79 100%
1935 99 0.000047371 99 100%
1936 136 0.000065461 136 100%
1937 157 0.000073687 157 100%
1938 246 0.000111183 246 100%
1939 365 0.000165651 365 100%
1940 604 0.000262308 604 100%
1941 946 0.000388281 946 100%
1942 1545 0.00056557 1537 8 99%
1943 2044 0.000724166 2033 11 99%
1944 2422 0.000900353 2417 5 100%
1945 2753 0.001037744 2753 100%
1946 4188 0.001310685 4179 9 100%
1947 5718 0.001587337 5697 21 99%
1948 6157 0.001783342 6148 9 100%
1949 8466 0.00242945 8451 15 100%
1950 9112 0.002600926 9090 22 100%
1951 10431 0.002831648 10407 24 100%
1952 12394 0.003263291 12368 26 100%
1953 13413 0.003480631 13400 13 100%
1954 14195 0.00356597 14175 20 100%
1955 15356 0.003824627 15324 32 100%
1956 17202 0.004172166 17177 25 100%
1957 20285 0.004827392 20235 50 100%
1958 23986 0.005801779 23941 45 100%
1959 21850 0.005256547 21811 39 100%
1960 18522 0.00445892 18480 42 100%
1961 16427 0.003966004 16384 43 99%
1962 14786 0.003664599 14754 32 100%
1963 12244 0.003093222 12217 27 100%
1964 10400 0.002675197 10376 24 100%
1965 7784 0.002147025 7763 21 99%
1966 6332 0.001821859 6319 13 100%
1967 5426 0.001598288 5406 20 99%
1968 4688 0.001387654 4676 12 99%
1969 4765 0.001371085 4751 14 99%
1970 4809 0.001333425 4797 12 100%
1971 3880 0.001130443 3863 17 99%
1972 3044 0.000968496 3032 12 99%
1973 2383 0.000789896 2371 12 99%
1974 1927 0.000633882 1920 7 99%
1975 1701 0.000563362 1689 12 99%
1976 1388 0.000457435 1382 6 99%
1977 1406 0.000442638 1406 100%
1978 1139 0.000358874 1134 5 99%
1979 1118 0.000336042 1113 5 99%
1980 1017 0.000295254 1010 7 99%
1981 956 0.000276354 956 100%
1982 887 0.000252855 880 7 98%
1983 770 0.000222333 765 5 99%
1984 675 0.000193484 670 5 99%
1985 617 0.000172879 617 100%
1986 572 0.000160812 572 100%
1987 517 0.000143392 517 100%
1988 527 0.000142631 522 5 98%
1989 469 0.000121998 469 100%
1990 477 0.000120691 477 100%
1991 472 0.000121178 472 100%
1992 474 0.000123403 474 100%
1993 444 0.000117768 444 100%
1994 455 0.000122395 455 100%
1995 409 0.000111687 409 100%
1996 445 0.000122017 445 100%
1997 389 0.000107292 389 100%
1998 386 0.000104946 386 100%
1999 361 0.000097733 361 100%
2000 379 0.00010027 379 100%
2001 343 0.000091631 343 100%
2002 362 0.00009684 362 100%
2003 308 0.00008101 308 100%
2004 283 0.000074071 283 100%
2005 286 0.000074391 286 100%
2006 293 0.000074069 293 100%
2007 294 0.00007355 294 100%
2008 268 0.000068192 268 100%
2009 204 0.00005341 204 100%
2010 190 0.000051419 190 100%
2011 171 0.000046758 171 100%
2012 175 0.000047858 175 100%
2013 139 0.000038137 139 100%
2014 142 0.000038322 142 100%
2015 126 0.000034055 126 100%
2016 159 0.000043354 159 100%
2017 111 0.000031051 111 100%
2018 91 0.000025895 91 100%
2019 76 0.00002191 76 100%
2020 83 0.000024866 83 100%
2021 72 0.000021272 72 100%
2022 75 0.000022198 75 100%
2023 59 0.000017894 59 100%