How popular is “Kevin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kevin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kevin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kevin” 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	9	0.000009109		9	-100%
1913	9	0.000007915		9	-100%
1914	12	0.000008473		12	-100%
1915	15	0.000008186		15	-100%
1916	18	0.000009305		18	-100%
1917	19	0.000009468		19	-100%
1918	21	0.000009672		21	-100%
1919	14	0.000006634		14	-100%
1920	24	0.000010607		24	-100%
1921	84	0.000035982		84	-100%
1922	71	0.000031016		71	-100%
1923	53	0.000023019		53	-100%
1924	50	0.000020994		50	-100%
1925	61	0.000026143		61	-100%
1926	46	0.000020036		46	-100%
1927	67	0.000028887		67	-100%
1928	68	0.000030076		68	-100%
1929	75	0.000034213		75	-100%
1930	84	0.000037782		84	-100%
1931	111	0.000052747		111	-100%
1932	121	0.000057311		121	-100%
1933	132	0.000066018		132	-100%
1934	151	0.000072707		151	-100%
1935	175	0.000083736		175	-100%
1936	153	0.000073643		153	-100%
1937	178	0.000083542		178	-100%
1938	252	0.000113894	6	246	-95%
1939	278	0.000126166	5	273	-96%
1940	298	0.000129414		298	-100%
1941	424	0.000174025	6	418	-97%
1942	529	0.000193644		529	-100%
1943	644	0.000228162	5	639	-98%
1944	601	0.000223414	7	594	-98%
1945	703	0.000264992	14	689	-96%
1946	1051	0.00032892	16	1035	-97%
1947	1563	0.000433887	14	1549	-98%
1948	2255	0.000653146	27	2228	-98%
1949	3323	0.000953576	31	3292	-98%
1950	4789	0.001366974	38	4751	-98%
1951	6395	0.001736008	45	6350	-99%
1952	7961	0.0020961	45	7916	-99%
1953	10073	0.00261389	62	10011	-99%
1954	15402	0.003869161	80	15322	-99%
1955	17224	0.004289827	68	17156	-99%
1956	21830	0.005294641	67	21763	-99%
1957	24376	0.00580085	90	24286	-99%
1958	24754	0.005988044	93	24661	-99%
1959	26893	0.006467785	99	26794	-99%
1960	28481	0.006856589	93	28388	-99%
1961	29027	0.007007458	108	28919	-99%
1962	28422	0.007043217	91	28331	-99%
1963	30732	0.007764135	121	30611	-99%
1964	29469	0.007580245	114	29355	-99%
1965	28300	0.00780593	117	28183	-99%
1966	25717	0.007399181	123	25594	-99%
1967	24720	0.007281517	117	24603	-99%
1968	23987	0.007100079	125	23862	-99%
1969	23683	0.006814619	128	23555	-99%
1970	27099	0.007513904	129	26970	-99%
1971	24984	0.007278967	134	24850	-99%
1972	22475	0.007150825	118	22357	-99%
1973	20905	0.006929328	134	20771	-99%
1974	19591	0.00644441	127	19464	-99%
1975	18171	0.006018095	106	18065	-99%
1976	18589	0.006126289	113	18476	-99%
1977	22610	0.00711791	149	22461	-99%
1978	20201	0.006364785	105	20096	-99%
1979	18854	0.005666967	120	18734	-99%
1980	18093	0.005252712	117	17976	-99%
1981	17567	0.005078085	111	17456	-99%
1982	17583	0.005012312	118	17465	-99%
1983	17522	0.00505928	144	17378	-98%
1984	17986	0.005155421	124	17862	-99%
1985	18960	0.005312249	147	18813	-98%
1986	20081	0.005645364	146	19935	-99%
1987	20563	0.005703051	142	20421	-99%
1988	20286	0.005490058	116	20170	-99%
1989	21308	0.00554254	99	21209	-99%
1990	20483	0.005182318	71	20412	-99%
1991	20342	0.005222238	81	20261	-99%
1992	19705	0.00512981	59	19646	-99%
1993	19135	0.005075221	53	19082	-99%
1994	17372	0.004672841	57	17315	-99%
1995	15917	0.004346348	59	15858	-99%
1996	14624	0.004009657	35	14589	-100%
1997	13327	0.003675654	33	13294	-100%
1998	12525	0.003405192	16	12509	-100%
1999	12292	0.003327678	35	12257	-99%
2000	12704	0.003360932	31	12673	-100%
2001	12631	0.003374214	36	12595	-99%
2002	12077	0.003230621	31	12046	-99%
2003	11762	0.003093375	28	11734	-100%
2004	11266	0.002948502	46	11220	-99%
2005	10948	0.002847449	31	10917	-99%
2006	10806	0.002731417	27	10779	-100%
2007	10560	0.00264153	23	10537	-100%
2008	9809	0.002495507	11	9798	-100%
2009	8801	0.002303821	21	8780	-100%
2010	7335	0.001984718	7	7328	-100%
2011	6583	0.00179972	15	6568	-100%
2012	6239	0.001705872	7	6232	-100%
2013	5955	0.001633446	10	5945	-100%
2014	5915	0.001595899	14	5901	-100%
2015	5198	0.001404519	14	5184	-99%
2016	4560	0.001242948	6	4554	-100%
2017	3842	0.001074326	9	3833	-100%
2018	3143	0.00089394		3143	-100%
2019	2622	0.000755416		2622	-100%
2020	2392	0.000716044	8	2384	-99%
2021	2109	0.0006225		2109	-100%
2022	2077	0.000613928		2077	-100%
2023	1919	0.000579549		1919	-100%
2024	1827	0.000548896	5	1822	-99%

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