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How popular is “Lane” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lane” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lane” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lane” 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
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1910 7 0.00001185 7 -100%
1911 10 0.000015521 10 -100%
1913 13 0.000011432 13 -100%
1914 18 0.000012709 18 -100%
1915 23 0.000012552 23 -100%
1916 29 0.000014992 5 24 -66%
1917 28 0.000013953 28 -100%
1918 28 0.000012897 28 -100%
1919 26 0.000012321 26 -100%
1920 24 0.000010607 24 -100%
1921 41 0.000017563 41 -100%
1922 51 0.000022279 6 45 -76%
1923 40 0.000017373 40 -100%
1924 51 0.000021414 7 44 -73%
1925 41 0.000017572 8 33 -61%
1926 44 0.000019165 44 -100%
1927 30 0.000012935 30 -100%
1928 38 0.000016807 38 -100%
1929 49 0.000022352 49 -100%
1930 53 0.000023839 53 -100%
1931 30 0.000014256 30 -100%
1932 55 0.00002605 55 -100%
1933 47 0.000023506 47 -100%
1934 52 0.000025038 7 45 -73%
1935 75 0.000035887 6 69 -84%
1936 66 0.000031768 10 56 -70%
1937 65 0.000030507 6 59 -82%
1938 91 0.000041129 13 78 -71%
1939 88 0.000039938 15 73 -66%
1940 81 0.000035176 14 67 -65%
1941 77 0.000031604 7 70 -82%
1942 96 0.000035141 15 81 -69%
1943 93 0.000032949 24 69 -48%
1944 98 0.00003643 15 83 -69%
1945 100 0.000037694 20 80 -60%
1946 142 0.00004444 23 119 -68%
1947 144 0.000039974 27 117 -63%
1948 139 0.00004026 26 113 -63%
1949 191 0.00005481 45 146 -53%
1950 190 0.000054234 30 160 -68%
1951 229 0.000062165 48 181 -58%
1952 222 0.000058452 35 187 -68%
1953 220 0.000057089 39 181 -65%
1954 216 0.000054262 33 183 -69%
1955 215 0.000053548 31 184 -71%
1956 226 0.000054814 32 194 -72%
1957 214 0.000050926 31 183 -71%
1958 237 0.000057331 39 198 -67%
1959 372 0.000089466 30 342 -84%
1960 303 0.000072945 26 277 -83%
1961 290 0.000070009 29 261 -80%
1962 307 0.000076077 36 271 -77%
1963 231 0.00005836 20 211 -83%
1964 306 0.000078712 28 278 -82%
1965 241 0.000066475 16 225 -87%
1966 238 0.000068476 22 216 -82%
1967 243 0.000071578 25 218 -79%
1968 237 0.000070151 22 215 -81%
1969 267 0.000076827 23 244 -83%
1970 262 0.000072646 30 232 -77%
1971 210 0.000061182 16 194 -85%
1972 164 0.00005218 13 151 -84%
1973 146 0.000048394 12 134 -84%
1974 168 0.000055263 13 155 -85%
1975 170 0.000056303 24 146 -72%
1976 178 0.000058663 24 154 -73%
1977 144 0.000045333 10 134 -86%
1978 156 0.000049151 26 130 -67%
1979 183 0.000055005 35 148 -62%
1980 183 0.000053128 35 148 -62%
1981 244 0.000070533 68 176 -44%
1982 270 0.000076968 97 173 -28%
1983 207 0.000059769 70 137 -32%
1984 242 0.000069366 73 169 -40%
1985 231 0.000064722 51 180 -56%
1986 281 0.000078997 62 219 -56%
1987 259 0.000071832 49 210 -62%
1988 302 0.000081731 54 248 -64%
1989 293 0.000076214 54 239 -63%
1990 396 0.00010019 68 328 -66%
1991 343 0.000088056 54 289 -69%
1992 357 0.000092938 61 296 -66%
1993 373 0.000098932 74 299 -60%
1994 774 0.000208196 85 689 -78%
1995 1234 0.00033696 66 1168 -89%
1996 1148 0.000314762 78 1070 -86%
1997 1050 0.000289595 83 967 -84%
1998 1009 0.000274318 55 954 -89%
1999 1041 0.000281818 73 968 -86%
2000 1093 0.000289161 78 1015 -86%
2001 963 0.000257253 69 894 -86%
2002 1079 0.000288635 98 981 -82%
2003 1218 0.000320331 89 1129 -85%
2004 1148 0.000300451 80 1068 -86%
2005 1107 0.000287918 68 1039 -88%
2006 1068 0.000269957 82 986 -85%
2007 1086 0.000271657 70 1016 -87%
2008 1119 0.000284685 66 1053 -88%
2009 1129 0.000295536 76 1053 -87%
2010 1133 0.000306569 71 1062 -87%
2011 1368 0.000373996 74 1294 -89%
2012 1299 0.000355174 76 1223 -88%
2013 1221 0.000334918 69 1152 -89%
2014 1263 0.000340764 63 1200 -90%
2015 1307 0.000353156 98 1209 -85%
2016 1317 0.000358983 86 1231 -87%
2017 1256 0.000351211 78 1178 -88%
2018 1297 0.000368896 85 1212 -87%
2019 1504 0.000433313 98 1406 -87%
2020 1474 0.000441241 104 1370 -86%
2021 1431 0.000422379 111 1320 -84%
2022 1458 0.000430961 120 1338 -84%
2023 1473 0.000444854 100 1373 -86%
2024 1418 0.000426018 87 1331 -88%

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