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How popular is “Lan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lan” 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
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 18 0.000005727 9 9 0%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 18 0.000005961 13 5 44%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 100%
1977 16 0.000005037 16 100%
1978 27 0.000008507 27 100%
1979 20 0.000006011 20 100%
1980 37 0.000010742 32 5 73%
1981 62 0.000017922 43 19 39%
1982 58 0.000016534 47 11 62%
1983 52 0.000015014 44 8 69%
1984 45 0.000012899 39 6 73%
1985 47 0.000013169 28 19 19%
1986 43 0.000012089 30 13 40%
1987 37 0.000010262 30 7 62%
1988 30 0.000008119 20 10 33%
1989 33 0.000008584 23 10 39%
1990 29 0.000007337 24 5 66%
1991 36 0.000009242 31 5 72%
1992 24 0.000006248 24 100%
1993 23 0.0000061 18 5 57%
1994 33 0.000008877 27 6 64%
1995 20 0.000005461 14 6 40%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 100%
1997 17 0.000004689 12 5 41%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 100%
1999 17 0.000004602 12 5 41%
2000 26 0.000006878 21 5 62%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 100%
2002 14 0.000003745 7 7 0%
2003 13 0.000003419 6 7 -8%
2004 16 0.000004187 10 6 25%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 15 0.000003792 9 6 20%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 100%
2011 11 0.000003007 6 5 9%
2012 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2013 7 0.00000192 7 100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 100%
2016 11 0.000002998 6 5 9%
2018 13 0.000003697 5 8 -23%
2019 11 0.000003169 5 6 -9%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 -100%

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