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How popular is “Kelley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kelley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kelley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kelley” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 -100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 -100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1900 17 0.000037756 17 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 -100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 -100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 16 0.000024834 16 -100%
1912 18 0.000018217 18 -100%
1913 22 0.000019347 22 -100%
1914 17 0.000012003 17 -100%
1915 33 0.000018009 33 -100%
1916 30 0.000015509 30 -100%
1917 32 0.000015946 32 -100%
1918 31 0.000014278 31 -100%
1919 40 0.000018955 6 34 -70%
1920 51 0.00002254 5 46 -80%
1921 33 0.000014136 33 -100%
1922 28 0.000012232 28 -100%
1923 29 0.000012595 29 -100%
1924 24 0.000010077 24 -100%
1925 30 0.000012857 30 -100%
1926 31 0.000013502 31 -100%
1927 32 0.000013797 32 -100%
1928 28 0.000012384 28 -100%
1929 28 0.000012773 28 -100%
1930 25 0.000011245 25 -100%
1931 26 0.000012355 26 -100%
1932 21 0.000009947 21 -100%
1933 20 0.000010003 20 -100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 -100%
1935 37 0.000017704 37 -100%
1936 18 0.000008664 18 -100%
1937 23 0.000010795 23 -100%
1938 22 0.000009943 22 -100%
1939 24 0.000010892 24 -100%
1940 35 0.0000152 5 30 -71%
1941 38 0.000015597 5 33 -74%
1942 47 0.000017205 7 40 -70%
1943 38 0.000013463 7 31 -63%
1944 38 0.000014126 6 32 -68%
1945 49 0.00001847 13 36 -47%
1946 49 0.000015335 5 44 -80%
1947 55 0.000015268 9 46 -67%
1948 43 0.000012455 12 31 -44%
1949 48 0.000013774 12 36 -50%
1950 69 0.000019695 23 46 -33%
1951 90 0.000024432 36 54 -20%
1952 117 0.000030806 52 65 -11%
1953 124 0.000032177 46 78 -26%
1954 138 0.000034667 73 65 6%
1955 164 0.000040846 90 74 10%
1956 267 0.000064758 159 108 19%
1957 397 0.000094476 290 107 46%
1958 800 0.000193522 650 150 63%
1959 961 0.000231121 817 144 70%
1960 1159 0.000279021 1004 155 73%
1961 1396 0.000337011 1250 146 79%
1962 1448 0.000358827 1311 137 81%
1963 1598 0.000403719 1482 116 85%
1964 1660 0.000426998 1537 123 85%
1965 1571 0.000433326 1461 110 86%
1966 1651 0.000475018 1516 135 84%
1967 1715 0.00050517 1583 132 85%
1968 2086 0.00061745 1918 168 84%
1969 1834 0.000527721 1686 148 84%
1970 1629 0.000451683 1497 132 84%
1971 1428 0.000416041 1287 141 80%
1972 1319 0.000419664 1217 102 85%
1973 1298 0.000430245 1201 97 85%
1974 1324 0.000435526 1208 116 82%
1975 1270 0.000420614 1169 101 84%
1976 1218 0.000401411 1100 118 81%
1977 1589 0.000500237 1502 87 89%
1978 1448 0.000456225 1363 85 88%
1979 1281 0.000385032 1201 80 88%
1980 1195 0.000346929 1084 111 81%
1981 1049 0.000303234 952 97 82%
1982 1097 0.000312717 1007 90 84%
1983 971 0.000280365 908 63 87%
1984 863 0.000247366 796 67 84%
1985 836 0.000234232 761 75 82%
1986 1074 0.000301933 1001 73 86%
1987 1260 0.000349455 1196 64 90%
1988 1188 0.000321512 1126 62 90%
1989 1050 0.000273121 957 93 82%
1990 946 0.000239344 887 59 88%
1991 757 0.000194339 700 57 85%
1992 767 0.000199673 703 64 83%
1993 604 0.0001602 570 34 89%
1994 546 0.000146867 498 48 82%
1995 457 0.00012479 420 37 84%
1996 383 0.000105012 351 32 83%
1997 323 0.000089085 296 27 83%
1998 299 0.00008129 275 24 84%
1999 270 0.000073094 235 35 74%
2000 237 0.0000627 206 31 74%
2001 187 0.000049955 155 32 66%
2002 191 0.000051093 171 20 79%
2003 153 0.000040239 129 24 69%
2004 125 0.000032715 106 19 70%
2005 89 0.000023148 73 16 64%
2006 111 0.000028057 89 22 60%
2007 85 0.000021262 65 20 53%
2008 84 0.00002137 63 21 50%
2009 70 0.000018324 54 16 54%
2010 71 0.000019211 54 17 52%
2011 60 0.000016403 38 22 27%
2012 61 0.000016679 46 15 51%
2013 45 0.000012343 27 18 20%
2014 48 0.000012951 39 9 63%
2015 43 0.000011619 28 15 30%
2016 40 0.000010903 22 18 10%
2017 38 0.000010626 22 16 16%
2018 49 0.000013937 29 20 18%
2019 43 0.000012389 24 19 12%
2020 44 0.000013171 29 15 32%
2021 39 0.000011511 20 19 3%
2022 29 0.000008572 17 12 17%
2023 31 0.000009362 17 14 10%
2024 25 0.000007511 17 8 36%

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