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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kerry” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kerry” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kerry” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kerry” 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
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 -100%
1925 20 0.000008572 6 14 -40%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 -100%
1927 19 0.000008192 5 14 -47%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1929 15 0.000006843 15 -100%
1930 21 0.000009445 21 -100%
1931 20 0.000009504 20 -100%
1932 29 0.000013736 7 22 -52%
1933 19 0.000009503 19 -100%
1934 50 0.000024075 6 44 -76%
1935 115 0.000055027 5 110 -91%
1936 87 0.000041876 8 79 -82%
1937 77 0.000036139 12 65 -69%
1938 81 0.000036609 11 70 -73%
1939 97 0.000044022 10 87 -79%
1940 134 0.000058193 22 112 -67%
1941 145 0.000059513 25 120 -66%
1942 177 0.000064792 42 135 -53%
1943 298 0.000105578 87 211 -42%
1944 447 0.000166166 150 297 -33%
1945 434 0.000163594 124 310 -43%
1946 638 0.000199668 149 489 -53%
1947 900 0.000249839 196 704 -56%
1948 1023 0.000296305 273 750 -47%
1949 1320 0.00037879 395 925 -40%
1950 1540 0.000439578 478 1062 -38%
1951 1674 0.00045443 491 1183 -41%
1952 1723 0.000453659 556 1167 -35%
1953 1834 0.000475913 569 1265 -38%
1954 2244 0.000563719 582 1662 -48%
1955 2216 0.000551919 615 1601 -44%
1956 2328 0.000564632 740 1588 -36%
1957 2560 0.000609213 813 1747 -36%
1958 2245 0.00054307 806 1439 -28%
1959 2495 0.000600049 792 1703 -37%
1960 3127 0.000752802 951 2176 -39%
1961 3067 0.00074041 1040 2027 -32%
1962 2990 0.000740948 1092 1898 -27%
1963 2884 0.000728614 1163 1721 -19%
1964 2741 0.000705061 1177 1564 -14%
1965 2392 0.00065978 921 1471 -23%
1966 2273 0.000653977 1032 1241 -9%
1967 2382 0.000701641 1258 1124 6%
1968 2820 0.000834711 1735 1085 23%
1969 2830 0.000814313 1854 976 31%
1970 2798 0.000775818 1831 967 31%
1971 3084 0.000898508 2206 878 43%
1972 2643 0.000840918 1910 733 45%
1973 2555 0.000846899 1874 681 47%
1974 2439 0.000802303 1729 710 42%
1975 2323 0.00076936 1677 646 44%
1976 2031 0.000669347 1449 582 43%
1977 1840 0.000579255 1300 540 41%
1978 1617 0.000509473 1154 463 43%
1979 1456 0.000437632 994 462 37%
1980 1431 0.000415444 1000 431 40%
1981 1357 0.000392267 939 418 38%
1982 1355 0.000386264 938 417 38%
1983 1169 0.000337536 786 383 34%
1984 1242 0.000356001 730 512 18%
1985 1197 0.000335378 672 525 12%
1986 1180 0.000331733 699 481 18%
1987 1079 0.000299256 670 409 24%
1988 1020 0.000276045 599 421 17%
1989 969 0.000252052 560 409 16%
1990 958 0.00024238 556 402 16%
1991 891 0.000228739 477 414 7%
1992 726 0.000189 438 288 21%
1993 669 0.00017744 373 296 12%
1994 574 0.000154398 339 235 18%
1995 501 0.000136805 295 206 18%
1996 471 0.00012914 290 181 23%
1997 460 0.00012687 272 188 18%
1998 349 0.000094883 199 150 14%
1999 350 0.000094752 200 150 14%
2000 317 0.000083865 182 135 15%
2001 291 0.000077737 149 142 2%
2002 271 0.000072493 141 130 4%
2003 212 0.000055755 100 112 -6%
2004 258 0.000067523 86 172 -33%
2005 200 0.000052018 80 120 -20%
2006 172 0.000043476 73 99 -15%
2007 131 0.000032769 44 87 -33%
2008 122 0.000031038 37 85 -39%
2009 102 0.0000267 32 70 -37%
2010 95 0.000025705 30 65 -37%
2011 96 0.000026245 35 61 -27%
2012 80 0.000021874 27 53 -32%
2013 110 0.000030173 39 71 -29%
2014 99 0.000026711 37 62 -25%
2015 88 0.000023778 26 62 -41%
2016 83 0.000022624 30 53 -28%
2017 87 0.000024328 30 57 -31%
2018 67 0.000019056 16 51 -52%
2019 65 0.000018727 22 43 -32%
2020 62 0.00001856 23 39 -26%
2021 58 0.00001712 16 42 -45%
2022 72 0.000021282 17 55 -53%
2023 48 0.000014496 13 35 -46%
2024 57 0.000017125 8 49 -72%

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