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How popular is “Lance” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lance” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lance” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lance” 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
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1901 7 0.000020242 7 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1913 13 0.000011432 13 -100%
1914 25 0.000017651 25 -100%
1915 23 0.000012552 23 -100%
1916 21 0.000010856 21 -100%
1917 32 0.000015946 32 -100%
1918 25 0.000011515 25 -100%
1919 29 0.000013742 29 -100%
1920 36 0.000015911 36 -100%
1921 40 0.000017134 40 -100%
1922 38 0.0000166 38 -100%
1923 24 0.000010424 24 -100%
1924 26 0.000010917 26 -100%
1925 26 0.000011143 26 -100%
1926 29 0.000012631 29 -100%
1927 31 0.000013366 31 -100%
1928 24 0.000010615 24 -100%
1929 28 0.000012773 28 -100%
1930 26 0.000011694 26 -100%
1931 24 0.000011405 24 -100%
1932 24 0.000011367 24 -100%
1933 35 0.000017505 35 -100%
1934 18 0.000008667 18 -100%
1935 41 0.000019618 41 -100%
1936 72 0.000034656 72 -100%
1937 70 0.000032854 70 -100%
1938 267 0.000120674 267 -100%
1939 291 0.000132066 291 -100%
1940 254 0.000110306 254 -100%
1941 247 0.000101378 247 -100%
1942 338 0.000123727 338 -100%
1943 295 0.000104515 295 -100%
1944 404 0.000150181 404 -100%
1945 400 0.000150778 400 -100%
1946 414 0.000129565 414 -100%
1947 606 0.000168225 606 -100%
1948 609 0.000176393 609 -100%
1949 617 0.000177056 617 -100%
1950 735 0.000209799 735 -100%
1951 751 0.000203869 751 -100%
1952 707 0.00018615 707 -100%
1953 710 0.000184241 710 -100%
1954 921 0.000231366 921 -100%
1955 1059 0.000263756 1059 -100%
1956 1122 0.000272129 6 1116 -99%
1957 1163 0.000276764 5 1158 -99%
1958 1132 0.000273833 1132 -100%
1959 1437 0.0003456 6 1431 -99%
1960 1883 0.000453318 8 1875 -99%
1961 1807 0.000436231 1807 -100%
1962 2009 0.000497848 5 2004 -100%
1963 1872 0.000472942 7 1865 -99%
1964 2097 0.000539407 8 2089 -99%
1965 1762 0.000486009 9 1753 -99%
1966 1819 0.000523355 1819 -100%
1967 1812 0.000533742 8 1804 -99%
1968 2007 0.000594066 14 1993 -99%
1969 3036 0.000873588 9 3027 -99%
1970 4173 0.001157073 13 4160 -99%
1971 3191 0.000929682 15 3176 -99%
1972 2270 0.000722241 17 2253 -99%
1973 1699 0.000563163 15 1684 -98%
1974 1536 0.000505263 7 1529 -99%
1975 1496 0.000495464 1496 -100%
1976 1744 0.000574762 8 1736 -99%
1977 1938 0.000610107 14 1924 -99%
1978 1983 0.000624789 11 1972 -99%
1979 1889 0.000567779 22 1867 -98%
1980 1801 0.000522862 15 1786 -98%
1981 1693 0.000489395 11 1682 -99%
1982 1988 0.000566711 14 1974 -99%
1983 1973 0.000569681 11 1962 -99%
1984 2150 0.000616266 15 2135 -99%
1985 2160 0.000605193 8 2152 -99%
1986 2062 0.000579689 11 2051 -99%
1987 2004 0.0005558 11 1993 -99%
1988 1904 0.000515285 10 1894 -99%
1989 1838 0.000478092 15 1823 -98%
1990 1702 0.000430616 5 1697 -99%
1991 1581 0.000405877 7 1574 -99%
1992 1507 0.000392318 1507 -100%
1993 1259 0.000333928 1259 -100%
1994 1119 0.000300996 1119 -100%
1995 1095 0.000299004 1095 -100%
1996 1048 0.000287344 1048 -100%
1997 918 0.000253189 918 -100%
1998 880 0.000239247 880 -100%
1999 1003 0.000271531 1003 -100%
2000 1221 0.000323024 1221 -100%
2001 1286 0.000343539 1286 -100%
2002 1232 0.000329562 1232 -100%
2003 1167 0.000306918 1167 -100%
2004 1166 0.000305162 5 1161 -99%
2005 1256 0.000326671 1256 -100%
2006 1003 0.000253527 1003 -100%
2007 826 0.00020662 826 -100%
2008 751 0.000191062 751 -100%
2009 639 0.00016727 639 -100%
2010 604 0.000163431 604 -100%
2011 575 0.000157199 575 -100%
2012 540 0.000147647 540 -100%
2013 459 0.000125903 459 -100%
2014 512 0.00013814 512 -100%
2015 454 0.000122672 454 -100%
2016 438 0.000119388 438 -100%
2017 409 0.000114367 409 -100%
2018 394 0.000112062 394 -100%
2019 398 0.000114667 398 -100%
2020 315 0.000094295 315 -100%
2021 305 0.000090025 305 -100%
2022 319 0.000094291 319 -100%
2023 300 0.000090602 300 -100%
2024 290 0.000087126 290 -100%

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