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How popular is “Kingston” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kingston” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kingston” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kingston” 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
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 15 0.000003851 15 -100%
1992 15 0.000003905 15 -100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 -100%
1994 14 0.000003766 14 -100%
1995 21 0.000005734 21 -100%
1996 20 0.000005484 20 -100%
1997 32 0.000008826 32 -100%
1998 25 0.000006797 25 -100%
1999 29 0.000007851 29 -100%
2000 33 0.00000873 33 -100%
2001 33 0.000008816 33 -100%
2002 31 0.000008293 31 -100%
2003 43 0.000011309 43 -100%
2004 58 0.00001518 58 -100%
2005 85 0.000022108 85 -100%
2006 203 0.000051312 203 -100%
2007 903 0.000225881 10 893 -98%
2008 1547 0.000393572 12 1535 -98%
2009 1622 0.000424588 10 1612 -99%
2010 1687 0.000456472 11 1676 -99%
2011 1591 0.000434962 12 1579 -98%
2012 1787 0.000488603 9 1778 -99%
2013 2142 0.000587547 12 2130 -99%
2014 2612 0.000704732 11 2601 -99%
2015 2980 0.000805207 11 2969 -99%
2016 3166 0.000862976 18 3148 -99%
2017 3094 0.000865165 9 3085 -99%
2018 3395 0.000965614 16 3379 -99%
2019 3298 0.000950177 10 3288 -99%
2020 3190 0.000954925 9 3181 -99%
2021 3416 0.00100828 12 3404 -99%
2022 2924 0.000864287 8 2916 -99%
2023 2534 0.000765282 7 2527 -99%
2024 2087 0.000627009 6 2081 -99%

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