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How popular is “Langston” in the USA?

Number of people named “Langston” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Langston” by birth year

This chart shows how “Langston” 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
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1917 11 0.000005482 11 -100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 14 0.000006187 14 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 -100%
1926 14 0.000006098 14 -100%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1932 9 0.000004263 9 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1934 14 0.000006741 14 -100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 9 0.000004068 9 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 -100%
1943 12 0.000004251 12 -100%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 -100%
1945 15 0.000005654 15 -100%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 -100%
1947 20 0.000005552 20 -100%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 -100%
1949 18 0.000005165 18 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 -100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 16 0.00000387 16 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1960 16 0.000003852 16 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 -100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 -100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 -100%
1971 19 0.000005536 19 -100%
1972 24 0.000007636 24 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 -100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 20 0.000006296 20 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1979 16 0.000004809 16 -100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 -100%
1981 29 0.000008383 29 -100%
1982 29 0.000008267 29 -100%
1983 16 0.00000462 16 -100%
1984 21 0.000006019 21 -100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 -100%
1986 21 0.000005904 21 -100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 -100%
1988 31 0.00000839 31 -100%
1989 28 0.000007283 28 -100%
1990 40 0.00001012 40 -100%
1991 44 0.000011296 44 -100%
1992 57 0.000014839 57 -100%
1993 53 0.000014057 53 -100%
1994 54 0.000014525 54 -100%
1995 66 0.000018022 66 -100%
1996 43 0.00001179 43 -100%
1997 73 0.000020134 73 -100%
1998 66 0.000017944 66 -100%
1999 66 0.000017867 66 -100%
2000 72 0.000019048 72 -100%
2001 82 0.000021905 82 -100%
2002 88 0.00002354 88 -100%
2003 96 0.000025248 96 -100%
2004 86 0.000022508 86 -100%
2005 111 0.00002887 111 -100%
2006 104 0.000026288 6 98 -88%
2007 154 0.000038522 12 142 -84%
2008 213 0.000054189 26 187 -76%
2009 202 0.000052877 30 172 -70%
2010 209 0.000056552 29 180 -72%
2011 208 0.000056865 31 177 -70%
2012 194 0.000053044 24 170 -75%
2013 243 0.000066654 34 209 -72%
2014 341 0.000092004 24 317 -86%
2015 384 0.000103758 19 365 -90%
2016 425 0.000115845 20 405 -91%
2017 391 0.000109334 16 375 -92%
2018 375 0.000106658 16 359 -91%
2019 391 0.00011265 12 379 -94%
2020 376 0.000112555 9 367 -95%
2021 349 0.000103012 6 343 -97%
2022 327 0.000096656 9 318 -94%
2023 270 0.000081542 9 261 -93%
2024 262 0.000078714 6 256 -95%

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