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How popular is “Kinsey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kinsey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kinsey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kinsey” 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
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 17 0.000005352 11 6 29%
1978 40 0.000012603 31 9 55%
1979 42 0.000012624 37 5 76%
1980 37 0.000010742 37 100%
1981 77 0.000022258 65 12 69%
1982 61 0.000017389 47 14 54%
1983 79 0.00002281 69 10 75%
1984 72 0.000020638 63 9 75%
1985 73 0.000020453 66 7 81%
1986 72 0.000020241 72 100%
1987 91 0.000025238 82 9 80%
1988 86 0.000023274 81 5 88%
1989 102 0.000026532 92 10 80%
1990 140 0.000035421 134 6 91%
1991 175 0.000044926 170 5 94%
1992 206 0.000053628 201 5 95%
1993 198 0.000052516 188 10 90%
1994 200 0.000053797 192 8 92%
1995 202 0.000055159 197 5 95%
1996 216 0.000059224 216 100%
1997 187 0.000051576 181 6 94%
1998 255 0.000069327 255 100%
1999 242 0.000065514 242 100%
2000 263 0.000069578 252 11 92%
2001 271 0.000072394 265 6 96%
2002 214 0.000057245 214 100%
2003 234 0.000061541 234 100%
2004 234 0.000061242 228 6 95%
2005 256 0.000066583 250 6 95%
2006 294 0.000074314 294 100%
2007 292 0.000073042 285 7 95%
2008 249 0.000063348 242 7 94%
2009 259 0.000067798 250 9 93%
2010 280 0.000075763 269 11 92%
2011 319 0.000087211 313 6 96%
2012 248 0.000067808 248 100%
2013 241 0.000066106 241 100%
2014 227 0.000061246 227 100%
2015 178 0.000048096 173 5 94%
2016 171 0.000046611 171 100%
2017 138 0.000038588 138 100%
2018 138 0.00003925 138 100%
2019 82 0.000023625 82 100%
2020 108 0.00003233 108 100%
2021 96 0.000028336 96 100%
2022 125 0.000036948 125 100%
2023 103 0.000031107 103 100%
2024 76 0.000022833 76 100%

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