Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Lamar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lamar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lamar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lamar” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1885 14 0.000058127 14 -100%
1887 7 0.000028295 7 -100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 10 0.000029907 10 -100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 -100%
1894 10 0.000029526 10 -100%
1895 10 0.000028488 10 -100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1897 15 0.000043233 15 -100%
1898 10 0.000026215 10 -100%
1899 12 0.000035374 12 -100%
1900 16 0.000035535 16 -100%
1901 14 0.000040484 14 -100%
1902 15 0.000038786 15 -100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1905 15 0.000035384 15 -100%
1906 17 0.000039678 17 -100%
1907 31 0.000066611 31 -100%
1908 19 0.000038883 19 -100%
1909 20 0.000039122 20 -100%
1910 34 0.000057558 34 -100%
1911 34 0.000052772 5 29 -71%
1912 52 0.000052628 52 -100%
1913 83 0.000072992 5 78 -88%
1914 104 0.000073428 5 99 -90%
1915 132 0.000072036 7 125 -89%
1916 172 0.000088916 5 167 -94%
1917 169 0.000084216 6 163 -93%
1918 169 0.00007784 8 161 -91%
1919 163 0.000077242 163 -100%
1920 189 0.000083531 6 183 -94%
1921 179 0.000076676 179 -100%
1922 202 0.000088242 13 189 -87%
1923 215 0.000093378 6 209 -94%
1924 234 0.000098253 234 -100%
1925 245 0.000105001 8 237 -93%
1926 228 0.000099307 7 221 -94%
1927 229 0.000098734 5 224 -96%
1928 238 0.000105266 5 233 -96%
1929 224 0.000102182 8 216 -93%
1930 228 0.000102551 228 -100%
1931 222 0.000105494 6 216 -95%
1932 237 0.000112254 8 229 -93%
1933 244 0.000122034 244 -100%
1934 229 0.000110265 8 221 -93%
1935 216 0.000103354 216 -100%
1936 198 0.000095303 198 -100%
1937 225 0.000105601 5 220 -96%
1938 220 0.000099432 9 211 -92%
1939 217 0.000098482 7 210 -94%
1940 212 0.000092066 212 -100%
1941 218 0.000089475 218 -100%
1942 231 0.000084559 6 225 -95%
1943 249 0.000088218 8 241 -94%
1944 228 0.000084756 5 223 -96%
1945 198 0.000074635 198 -100%
1946 225 0.000070416 9 216 -92%
1947 286 0.000079393 9 277 -94%
1948 291 0.000084286 7 284 -95%
1949 276 0.000079202 9 267 -93%
1950 287 0.000081921 11 276 -92%
1951 293 0.000079539 10 283 -93%
1952 284 0.000074776 9 275 -94%
1953 283 0.000073437 10 273 -93%
1954 305 0.00007662 14 291 -91%
1955 292 0.000072726 10 282 -93%
1956 272 0.000065971 272 -100%
1957 290 0.000069012 11 279 -92%
1958 269 0.000065072 8 261 -94%
1959 279 0.0000671 7 272 -95%
1960 279 0.000067167 12 267 -91%
1961 275 0.000066388 16 259 -88%
1962 273 0.000067652 12 261 -91%
1963 233 0.000058865 9 224 -92%
1964 269 0.000069194 12 257 -91%
1965 250 0.000068957 10 240 -92%
1966 229 0.000065887 9 220 -92%
1967 271 0.000079826 9 262 -93%
1968 317 0.000093831 15 302 -91%
1969 330 0.000094955 16 314 -90%
1970 409 0.000113406 9 400 -96%
1971 400 0.000116538 12 388 -94%
1972 433 0.000137767 9 424 -96%
1973 355 0.000117671 9 346 -95%
1974 334 0.000109868 11 323 -93%
1975 338 0.000111943 16 322 -91%
1976 379 0.000124905 17 362 -91%
1977 532 0.00016748 16 516 -94%
1978 497 0.000156591 14 483 -94%
1979 583 0.000175233 10 573 -97%
1980 622 0.000180577 11 611 -96%
1981 592 0.000171129 6 586 -98%
1982 560 0.000159637 11 549 -96%
1983 616 0.000177863 16 600 -95%
1984 566 0.000162236 18 548 -94%
1985 545 0.000152699 10 535 -96%
1986 625 0.000175706 8 617 -97%
1987 624 0.000173063 11 613 -96%
1988 674 0.000182407 6 668 -98%
1989 748 0.000194566 11 737 -97%
1990 699 0.000176851 10 689 -97%
1991 550 0.000141197 550 -100%
1992 503 0.000130946 7 496 -97%
1993 405 0.000107419 405 -100%
1994 372 0.000100063 372 -100%
1995 306 0.000083557 306 -100%
1996 296 0.000081158 296 -100%
1997 323 0.000089085 323 -100%
1998 251 0.00006824 251 -100%
1999 256 0.000069304 256 -100%
2000 286 0.000075663 286 -100%
2001 288 0.000076936 288 -100%
2002 242 0.000064735 242 -100%
2003 238 0.000062593 238 -100%
2004 268 0.00007014 5 263 -96%
2005 303 0.000078807 303 -100%
2006 353 0.000089227 13 340 -93%
2007 356 0.000089052 17 339 -90%
2008 333 0.000084718 25 308 -85%
2009 324 0.000084813 31 293 -81%
2010 361 0.00009768 28 333 -84%
2011 352 0.000096233 38 314 -78%
2012 317 0.000086674 29 288 -82%
2013 376 0.000103136 49 327 -74%
2014 319 0.000086068 51 268 -68%
2015 337 0.000091059 60 277 -64%
2016 289 0.000078775 59 230 -59%
2017 286 0.000079973 52 234 -64%
2018 235 0.000066839 35 200 -70%
2019 221 0.000063672 27 194 -76%
2020 200 0.00005987 18 182 -82%
2021 166 0.000048997 18 148 -78%
2022 164 0.000048476 20 144 -76%
2023 154 0.000046509 19 135 -75%
2024 135 0.000040559 18 117 -73%

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