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How popular is “Kessler” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kessler” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kessler” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kessler” 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
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 17 0.000004689 5 12 -41%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 -100%
2001 23 0.000006144 5 18 -57%
2002 17 0.000004548 17 -100%
2003 18 0.000004734 6 12 -33%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 -100%
2005 19 0.000004942 5 14 -47%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 -100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 -100%
2008 20 0.000005088 5 15 -50%
2009 17 0.00000445 7 10 -18%
2010 19 0.000005141 6 13 -37%
2011 26 0.000007108 5 21 -62%
2012 23 0.000006289 7 16 -39%
2013 31 0.000008503 9 22 -42%
2014 26 0.000007015 26 -100%
2015 30 0.000008106 7 23 -53%
2016 22 0.000005997 22 -100%
2017 40 0.000011185 6 34 -70%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 -100%
2019 26 0.000007491 9 17 -31%
2020 39 0.000011675 13 26 -33%
2021 35 0.000010331 6 29 -66%
2022 33 0.000009754 6 27 -64%
2023 37 0.000011174 7 30 -62%
2024 17 0.000005107 17 -100%

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