How popular is “Laine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Laine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Laine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Laine” 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
1934	5	0.000002408	5		100%
1943	7	0.00000248	7		100%
1948	6	0.000001738	6		100%
1949	6	0.000001722	6		100%
1950	22	0.00000628	22		100%
1951	15	0.000004072	9	6	20%
1952	21	0.000005529	16	5	52%
1953	36	0.000009342	17	19	-6%
1954	19	0.000004773	9	10	-5%
1955	16	0.000003985	5	11	-38%
1956	35	0.000008489	19	16	9%
1957	30	0.000007139	14	16	-7%
1958	24	0.000005806	14	10	17%
1959	40	0.00000962	16	24	-20%
1960	34	0.000008185	18	16	6%
1961	31	0.000007484	18	13	16%
1962	27	0.000006691	11	16	-19%
1963	33	0.000008337	7	26	-58%
1964	28	0.000007202	12	16	-14%
1965	20	0.000005517	8	12	-20%
1966	31	0.000008919	15	16	-3%
1967	24	0.000007069	10	14	-17%
1968	26	0.000007696	13	13	0%
1969	34	0.000009783	23	11	35%
1970	27	0.000007486	21	6	56%
1971	33	0.000009614	21	12	27%
1972	23	0.000007318	13	10	13%
1973	23	0.000007624	18	5	57%
1974	24	0.000007895	16	8	33%
1975	30	0.000009936	13	17	-13%
1976	23	0.00000758	15	8	30%
1977	26	0.000008185	16	10	23%
1978	17	0.000005356	8	9	-6%
1979	49	0.000014728	40	9	63%
1980	45	0.000013064	34	11	51%
1981	98	0.000028329	92	6	88%
1982	85	0.000024231	72	13	69%
1983	79	0.00002281	66	13	67%
1984	63	0.000018058	57	6	81%
1985	54	0.00001513	41	13	52%
1986	56	0.000015743	45	11	61%
1987	66	0.000018305	52	14	58%
1988	61	0.000016509	44	17	44%
1989	74	0.000019249	56	18	51%
1990	64	0.000016192	46	18	44%
1991	68	0.000017457	49	19	44%
1992	57	0.000014839	41	16	44%
1993	68	0.000018036	49	19	44%
1994	77	0.000020712	54	23	40%
1995	80	0.000021845	49	31	22%
1996	106	0.000029063	63	43	19%
1997	116	0.000031993	74	42	28%
1998	105	0.000028547	61	44	16%
1999	92	0.000024906	59	33	28%
2000	87	0.000023016	52	35	20%
2001	143	0.000038201	99	44	38%
2002	155	0.000041463	106	49	37%
2003	167	0.000043921	124	43	49%
2004	129	0.000033761	86	43	33%
2005	137	0.000035632	92	45	34%
2006	111	0.000028057	72	39	30%
2007	116	0.000029017	73	43	26%
2008	100	0.000025441	54	46	8%
2009	111	0.000029056	75	36	35%
2010	125	0.000033823	81	44	30%
2011	110	0.000030073	80	30	45%
2012	107	0.000029256	68	39	27%
2013	107	0.00002935	72	35	35%
2014	111	0.000029948	78	33	41%
2015	120	0.000032424	87	33	45%
2016	122	0.000033254	92	30	51%
2017	124	0.000034674	88	36	42%
2018	148	0.000042095	101	47	36%
2019	249	0.000071739	102	147	-18%
2020	212	0.000063462	112	100	6%
2021	204	0.000060213	130	74	27%
2022	215	0.000063551	153	62	42%
2023	182	0.000054965	117	65	29%
2024	182	0.000054679	125	57	37%

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