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How popular is “Kellye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kellye” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kellye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kellye” 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
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 100%
1957 27 0.000006425 27 100%
1958 55 0.000013305 55 100%
1959 63 0.000015152 63 100%
1960 56 0.000013482 56 100%
1961 88 0.000021244 88 100%
1962 84 0.000020816 84 100%
1963 97 0.000024506 97 100%
1964 98 0.000025208 98 100%
1965 76 0.000020963 76 100%
1966 76 0.000021866 76 100%
1967 72 0.000021208 72 100%
1968 88 0.000026048 88 100%
1969 75 0.000021581 75 100%
1970 78 0.000021628 78 100%
1971 65 0.000018937 65 100%
1972 52 0.000016545 52 100%
1973 39 0.000012927 39 100%
1974 42 0.000013816 42 100%
1975 46 0.000015235 46 100%
1976 47 0.00001549 47 100%
1977 76 0.000023926 76 100%
1978 50 0.000015754 50 100%
1979 49 0.000014728 49 100%
1980 38 0.000011032 38 100%
1981 38 0.000010985 38 100%
1982 52 0.000014823 52 100%
1983 58 0.000016747 58 100%
1984 37 0.000010606 37 100%
1985 41 0.000011487 41 100%
1986 102 0.000028675 102 100%
1987 145 0.000040215 145 100%
1988 80 0.000021651 80 100%
1989 54 0.000014046 54 100%
1990 47 0.000011891 47 100%
1991 39 0.000010012 39 100%
1992 20 0.000005207 20 100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 100%
1994 17 0.000004573 17 100%
1995 15 0.000004096 15 100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%

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