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How popular is “Kerby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kerby” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kerby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kerby” 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
1942 10 0.000003661 10 -100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 -100%
1955 14 0.000003487 14 -100%
1956 18 0.000004366 18 -100%
1957 16 0.000003808 16 -100%
1958 18 0.000004354 18 -100%
1959 18 0.000004329 18 -100%
1960 17 0.000004093 17 -100%
1961 27 0.000006518 27 -100%
1962 17 0.000004213 17 -100%
1963 17 0.000004295 17 -100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 -100%
1965 16 0.000004413 16 -100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 -100%
1967 21 0.000006186 21 -100%
1968 18 0.000005328 18 -100%
1969 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1971 22 0.00000641 22 -100%
1972 25 0.000007954 25 -100%
1973 18 0.000005966 18 -100%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 -100%
1975 15 0.000004968 15 -100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 -100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 -100%
1982 19 0.000005416 19 -100%
1983 31 0.000008951 12 19 -23%
1984 32 0.000009172 21 11 31%
1985 25 0.000007005 11 14 -12%
1986 28 0.000007872 9 19 -36%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 -100%
1988 25 0.000006766 9 16 -28%
1989 20 0.000005202 6 14 -40%
1990 25 0.000006325 8 17 -36%
1991 22 0.000005648 8 14 -27%
1992 22 0.000005727 11 11 0%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 -100%
1994 18 0.000004842 5 13 -44%
1995 17 0.000004642 5 12 -41%
1996 23 0.000006306 9 14 -22%
1997 18 0.000004964 8 10 -11%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 11 0.000002978 11 -100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 -100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 -100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 -100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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