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How popular is “Kelvin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kelvin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kelvin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kelvin” 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
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 -100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 10 0.000004312 10 -100%
1928 12 0.000005308 12 -100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 14 0.000006653 14 -100%
1932 9 0.000004263 9 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1934 23 0.000011075 23 -100%
1935 34 0.000016269 34 -100%
1936 37 0.000017809 37 -100%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 -100%
1938 16 0.000007231 16 -100%
1939 22 0.000009984 22 -100%
1940 21 0.00000912 21 -100%
1941 18 0.000007388 18 -100%
1942 21 0.000007687 21 -100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 -100%
1945 20 0.000007539 20 -100%
1946 21 0.000006572 21 -100%
1947 27 0.000007495 27 -100%
1948 33 0.000009558 33 -100%
1949 42 0.000012052 42 -100%
1950 139 0.000039676 139 -100%
1951 181 0.000049135 181 -100%
1952 260 0.000068457 260 -100%
1953 281 0.000072918 281 -100%
1954 441 0.000110784 441 -100%
1955 530 0.000132002 530 -100%
1956 762 0.000184815 5 757 -99%
1957 806 0.000191807 806 -100%
1958 776 0.000187716 6 770 -98%
1959 1028 0.000247235 10 1018 -98%
1960 1309 0.000315132 11 1298 -98%
1961 1380 0.000333148 10 1370 -99%
1962 1333 0.000330329 7 1326 -99%
1963 1341 0.00033879 8 1333 -99%
1964 1266 0.00032565 9 1257 -99%
1965 1208 0.0003332 11 1197 -98%
1966 1085 0.000312171 6 1079 -99%
1967 1068 0.00031459 10 1058 -98%
1968 1009 0.000298661 11 998 -98%
1969 952 0.000273931 9 943 -98%
1970 923 0.000255926 11 912 -98%
1971 888 0.000258714 7 881 -98%
1972 898 0.000285715 13 885 -97%
1973 836 0.000277107 10 826 -98%
1974 775 0.000254934 9 766 -98%
1975 738 0.00024442 11 727 -97%
1976 733 0.000241571 733 -100%
1977 790 0.000248702 5 785 -99%
1978 758 0.000238825 6 752 -98%
1979 669 0.000201082 5 664 -99%
1980 618 0.000179416 5 613 -98%
1981 650 0.000187895 650 -100%
1982 726 0.000206958 726 -100%
1983 678 0.000195765 12 666 -96%
1984 695 0.000199211 7 688 -98%
1985 750 0.000210136 9 741 -98%
1986 726 0.0002041 11 715 -97%
1987 759 0.000210505 11 748 -97%
1988 800 0.000216506 7 793 -98%
1989 838 0.000217977 12 826 -97%
1990 875 0.00022138 5 870 -99%
1991 840 0.000215646 5 835 -99%
1992 808 0.000210347 12 796 -97%
1993 780 0.000206881 6 774 -98%
1994 749 0.000201471 749 -100%
1995 720 0.000196606 7 713 -98%
1996 677 0.000185622 677 -100%
1997 598 0.000164931 598 -100%
1998 698 0.000189766 698 -100%
1999 687 0.000185984 687 -100%
2000 657 0.000173814 657 -100%
2001 618 0.000165091 618 -100%
2002 659 0.000176284 659 -100%
2003 644 0.00016937 644 -100%
2004 636 0.000166452 5 631 -98%
2005 617 0.000160475 617 -100%
2006 632 0.00015975 632 -100%
2007 623 0.00015584 623 -100%
2008 606 0.000154172 606 -100%
2009 572 0.000149731 572 -100%
2010 497 0.000134479 497 -100%
2011 465 0.000127126 465 -100%
2012 473 0.000129328 473 -100%
2013 412 0.000113011 412 -100%
2014 366 0.000098749 366 -100%
2015 399 0.000107811 399 -100%
2016 336 0.000091586 336 -100%
2017 328 0.000091718 328 -100%
2018 281 0.000079923 281 -100%
2019 317 0.00009133 317 -100%
2020 242 0.000072443 242 -100%
2021 254 0.000074972 254 -100%
2022 254 0.000075078 254 -100%
2023 232 0.000070065 232 -100%
2024 201 0.000060388 201 -100%

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