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How popular is “Kelby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kelby” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kelby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kelby” 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
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1967 14 0.000004124 14 -100%
1968 23 0.000006808 23 -100%
1969 23 0.000006618 23 -100%
1970 44 0.0000122 44 -100%
1971 48 0.000013985 48 -100%
1972 57 0.000018136 57 -100%
1973 56 0.000018562 56 -100%
1974 53 0.000017434 7 46 -74%
1975 46 0.000015235 46 -100%
1976 55 0.000018126 7 48 -75%
1977 55 0.000017315 7 48 -75%
1978 37 0.000011658 37 -100%
1979 50 0.000015029 6 44 -76%
1980 54 0.000015677 5 49 -81%
1981 48 0.000013875 9 39 -63%
1982 32 0.000009122 32 -100%
1983 50 0.000014437 7 43 -72%
1984 58 0.000016625 13 45 -55%
1985 62 0.000017371 10 52 -68%
1986 68 0.000019117 10 58 -71%
1987 110 0.000030508 22 88 -60%
1988 133 0.000035994 19 114 -71%
1989 137 0.000035636 20 117 -71%
1990 157 0.000039722 34 123 -57%
1991 277 0.000071112 90 187 -35%
1992 242 0.000063 88 154 -27%
1993 221 0.000058616 70 151 -37%
1994 200 0.000053797 48 152 -52%
1995 196 0.00005352 58 138 -41%
1996 147 0.000040305 50 97 -32%
1997 175 0.000048266 65 110 -26%
1998 187 0.00005084 53 134 -43%
1999 177 0.000047917 59 118 -33%
2000 125 0.00003307 50 75 -20%
2001 167 0.000044612 59 108 -29%
2002 126 0.000033705 58 68 -8%
2003 161 0.000042343 52 109 -35%
2004 156 0.000040828 46 110 -41%
2005 120 0.000031211 41 79 -32%
2006 111 0.000028057 39 72 -30%
2007 123 0.000030768 47 76 -24%
2008 127 0.00003231 48 79 -24%
2009 82 0.000021465 29 53 -29%
2010 109 0.000029493 35 74 -36%
2011 83 0.000022691 33 50 -20%
2012 91 0.000024881 32 59 -30%
2013 71 0.000019475 24 47 -32%
2014 69 0.000018617 29 40 -16%
2015 65 0.000017563 23 42 -29%
2016 52 0.000014174 20 32 -23%
2017 42 0.000011744 13 29 -38%
2018 58 0.000016497 18 40 -38%
2019 39 0.000011236 20 19 3%
2020 44 0.000013171 22 22 0%
2021 35 0.000010331 11 24 -37%
2022 43 0.00001271 17 26 -21%
2023 29 0.000008758 9 20 -38%
2024 31 0.000009314 17 14 10%

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