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How popular is “Kelson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kelson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kelson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kelson” 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
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 -100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 -100%
1984 10 0.000002866 10 -100%
1986 14 0.000003936 14 -100%
1987 31 0.000008598 31 -100%
1988 30 0.000008119 30 -100%
1989 28 0.000007283 28 -100%
1990 38 0.000009614 38 -100%
1991 34 0.000008729 34 -100%
1992 30 0.00000781 30 -100%
1993 23 0.0000061 23 -100%
1994 26 0.000006994 26 -100%
1995 30 0.000008192 30 -100%
1996 36 0.000009871 36 -100%
1997 30 0.000008274 30 -100%
1998 31 0.000008428 31 -100%
1999 32 0.000008663 32 -100%
2000 25 0.000006614 25 -100%
2001 34 0.000009083 34 -100%
2002 34 0.000009095 34 -100%
2003 41 0.000010783 41 -100%
2004 39 0.000010207 39 -100%
2005 48 0.000012484 48 -100%
2006 37 0.000009352 37 -100%
2007 41 0.000010256 41 -100%
2008 38 0.000009668 38 -100%
2009 49 0.000012827 49 -100%
2010 31 0.000008388 31 -100%
2011 42 0.000011482 42 -100%
2012 40 0.000010937 40 -100%
2013 48 0.000013166 48 -100%
2014 49 0.00001322 49 -100%
2015 37 0.000009998 37 -100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 -100%
2017 37 0.000010346 37 -100%
2018 38 0.000010808 38 -100%
2019 33 0.000009508 33 -100%
2020 19 0.000005688 19 -100%
2021 30 0.000008855 30 -100%
2022 30 0.000008868 30 -100%
2023 34 0.000010268 34 -100%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 -100%

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