Name Trends

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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 0.000066019 132 -100%
1934 151 0.000072708 151 -100%
1935 175 0.000083737 175 -100%
1936 153 0.000073644 153 -100%
1937 178 0.000083543 178 -100%
1938 252 0.000113895 6 246 -95%
1939 278 0.000126167 5 273 -96%
1940 298 0.000129417 298 -100%
1941 425 0.000174439 6 419 -97%
1942 529 0.000193648 529 -100%
1943 644 0.000228162 5 639 -98%
1944 601 0.000223415 7 594 -98%
1945 703 0.000264996 14 689 -96%
1946 1051 0.000328923 16 1035 -97%
1947 1563 0.000433894 14 1549 -98%
1948 2255 0.000653149 27 2228 -98%
1949 3323 0.000953586 31 3292 -98%
1950 4789 0.00136697 38 4751 -98%
1951 6395 0.001736016 45 6350 -99%
1952 7963 0.002096626 45 7918 -99%
1953 10072 0.002613652 62 10010 -99%
1954 15403 0.003869436 80 15323 -99%
1955 17221 0.004289132 68 17153 -99%
1956 21830 0.00529464 67 21763 -99%
1957 24377 0.005801199 90 24287 -99%
1958 24760 0.005988996 93 24667 -99%
1959 26878 0.006466154 100 26778 -99%
1960 28473 0.006854488 93 28380 -99%
1961 29029 0.00700853 108 28921 -99%
1962 28424 0.007044674 91 28333 -99%
1963 30727 0.007762613 121 30606 -99%
1964 29470 0.007580583 114 29356 -99%
1965 28302 0.007806412 117 28185 -99%
1966 25713 0.007398209 123 25590 -99%
1967 24722 0.007282136 117 24605 -99%
1968 23990 0.007101072 125 23865 -99%
1969 23684 0.006814855 128 23556 -99%
1970 27099 0.007513929 129 26970 -99%
1971 24985 0.007279409 134 24851 -99%
1972 22474 0.007150452 118 22356 -99%
1973 20906 0.00692974 134 20772 -99%
1974 19594 0.006445395 127 19467 -99%
1975 18175 0.006019461 106 18069 -99%
1976 18592 0.006127254 113 18479 -99%
1977 22609 0.007117779 149 22460 -99%
1978 20201 0.006364885 105 20096 -99%
1979 18854 0.005667034 120 18734 -99%
1980 18093 0.005252737 117 17976 -99%
1981 17562 0.0050767 111 17451 -99%
1982 17582 0.005012057 118 17464 -99%
1983 17520 0.005058794 144 17376 -98%
1984 17985 0.00515528 124 17861 -99%
1985 18959 0.005312169 147 18812 -98%
1986 20081 0.005645574 146 19935 -99%
1987 20561 0.005702692 142 20419 -99%
1988 20288 0.00549087 116 20172 -99%
1989 21306 0.005542185 99 21207 -99%
1990 20482 0.005182368 71 20411 -99%
1991 20344 0.005222988 81 20263 -99%
1992 19702 0.005129287 59 19643 -99%
1993 19136 0.00507568 53 19083 -99%
1994 17370 0.004672519 57 17313 -99%
1995 15916 0.004346235 59 15857 -99%
1996 14622 0.004009274 35 14587 -100%
1997 13327 0.003675773 33 13294 -100%
1998 12525 0.003405302 16 12509 -100%
1999 12292 0.003327785 35 12257 -99%
2000 12704 0.003361032 31 12673 -100%
2001 12630 0.003374059 36 12594 -99%
2002 12077 0.003230757 31 12046 -99%
2003 11761 0.003093359 28 11733 -100%
2004 11266 0.002948726 46 11220 -99%
2005 10947 0.00284741 31 10916 -99%
2006 10806 0.002731689 27 10779 -100%
2007 10560 0.002641812 23 10537 -100%
2008 9808 0.002495612 11 9797 -100%
2009 8801 0.002304232 21 8780 -100%
2010 7334 0.001984766 7 7327 -100%
2011 6583 0.001800034 15 6568 -100%
2012 6239 0.001706208 7 6232 -100%
2013 5953 0.001633285 10 5943 -100%
2014 5915 0.001596312 14 5901 -100%
2015 5197 0.001404652 14 5183 -99%
2016 4558 0.001242801 6 4552 -100%
2017 3840 0.001074211 9 3831 -100%
2018 3143 0.000894384 3143 -100%
2019 2621 0.000755595 2621 -100%
2020 2390 0.000716031 8 2382 -99%
2021 2106 0.000622214 2106 -100%
2022 2073 0.000613566 2073 -100%
2023 1914 0.000580484 1914 -100%