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How popular is “Lancelot” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lancelot” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lancelot” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lancelot” 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
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 -100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 18 0.000005159 18 -100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 -100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 -100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 -100%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 -100%
1993 11 0.000002918 11 -100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 -100%
1995 16 0.000004369 16 -100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 -100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 -100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 -100%
2004 14 0.000003664 14 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 -100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 -100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 7 0.00000192 7 -100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 -100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 -100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 -100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 -100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 -100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 -100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 -100%

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