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How popular is “Kelle” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kelle” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kelle” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kelle” 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
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 100%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 100%
1957 41 0.000009757 41 100%
1958 43 0.000010402 43 100%
1959 83 0.000019962 83 100%
1960 87 0.000020945 82 5 89%
1961 91 0.000021968 91 100%
1962 100 0.000024781 100 100%
1963 95 0.000024001 95 100%
1964 89 0.000022893 83 6 87%
1965 91 0.0000251 86 5 89%
1966 91 0.000026182 86 5 89%
1967 82 0.000024154 82 100%
1968 94 0.000027824 94 100%
1969 96 0.000027623 96 100%
1970 90 0.000024955 90 100%
1971 82 0.00002389 82 100%
1972 48 0.000015272 48 100%
1973 53 0.000017568 53 100%
1974 48 0.000015789 48 100%
1975 42 0.00001391 42 100%
1976 45 0.00001483 45 100%
1977 70 0.000022037 70 100%
1978 59 0.000018589 59 100%
1979 69 0.000020739 69 100%
1980 51 0.000014806 51 100%
1981 54 0.00001561 48 6 78%
1982 41 0.000011688 41 100%
1983 53 0.000015303 53 100%
1984 43 0.000012325 43 100%
1985 37 0.000010367 32 5 73%
1986 29 0.000008153 29 100%
1987 34 0.00000943 34 100%
1988 35 0.000009472 29 6 66%
1989 26 0.000006763 26 100%
1990 23 0.000005819 23 100%
1991 26 0.000006675 26 100%
1992 33 0.000008591 28 5 70%
1993 27 0.000007161 27 100%
1994 15 0.000004035 15 100%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%

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