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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Lara” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lara” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lara” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lara” 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
1887 5 0.000020211 5 100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 100%
1915 14 0.00000764 14 100%
1916 19 0.000009822 19 100%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 100%
1918 17 0.00000783 12 5 41%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 100%
1922 18 0.000007863 18 100%
1923 15 0.000006515 15 100%
1924 20 0.000008398 20 100%
1925 26 0.000011143 26 100%
1926 21 0.000009147 21 100%
1927 24 0.000010348 24 100%
1928 15 0.000006634 15 100%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 100%
1930 18 0.000008096 18 100%
1931 19 0.000009029 19 100%
1932 13 0.000006157 13 100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 100%
1934 13 0.00000626 13 100%
1935 15 0.000007177 15 100%
1936 18 0.000008664 18 100%
1937 11 0.000005163 11 100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 100%
1940 12 0.000005211 12 100%
1941 13 0.000005336 13 100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 100%
1946 15 0.000004694 15 100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 100%
1948 17 0.000004924 17 100%
1949 15 0.000004304 15 100%
1950 17 0.000004852 17 100%
1951 20 0.000005429 20 100%
1952 19 0.000005003 19 100%
1953 19 0.00000493 19 100%
1954 29 0.000007285 29 100%
1955 18 0.000004483 18 100%
1956 30 0.000007276 30 100%
1957 22 0.000005235 22 100%
1958 32 0.000007741 32 100%
1959 35 0.000008418 35 100%
1960 49 0.000011796 49 100%
1961 55 0.000013278 55 100%
1962 61 0.000015116 61 100%
1963 78 0.000019706 78 100%
1964 57 0.000014662 57 100%
1965 65 0.000017929 65 100%
1966 236 0.000067901 236 100%
1967 951 0.000280126 945 6 99%
1968 1295 0.000383316 1295 100%
1969 1360 0.000391331 1354 6 99%
1970 1337 0.000370718 1332 5 99%
1971 1053 0.000306786 1053 100%
1972 830 0.000264079 830 100%
1973 662 0.000219431 662 100%
1974 600 0.000197368 600 100%
1975 637 0.000210969 637 100%
1976 775 0.000255413 775 100%
1977 662 0.000208406 662 100%
1978 561 0.000176756 561 100%
1979 500 0.000150286 500 100%
1980 579 0.000168094 579 100%
1981 583 0.000168528 583 100%
1982 626 0.000178451 626 100%
1983 520 0.000150144 514 6 98%
1984 508 0.000145611 508 100%
1985 487 0.000136449 487 100%
1986 538 0.000151248 538 100%
1987 539 0.000149489 539 100%
1988 558 0.000151013 558 100%
1989 479 0.000124595 479 100%
1990 448 0.000113347 442 6 97%
1991 379 0.000097298 379 100%
1992 353 0.000091897 353 100%
1993 275 0.000072939 275 100%
1994 287 0.000077199 287 100%
1995 260 0.000070996 260 100%
1996 271 0.000074304 271 100%
1997 242 0.000066745 242 100%
1998 259 0.000070415 259 100%
1999 278 0.00007526 278 100%
2000 262 0.000069314 262 100%
2001 336 0.000089758 336 100%
2002 402 0.000107536 402 100%
2003 349 0.000091786 349 100%
2004 359 0.000093956 359 100%
2005 319 0.000082968 319 100%
2006 322 0.000081391 322 100%
2007 290 0.000072542 290 100%
2008 292 0.000074288 292 100%
2009 287 0.000075127 287 100%
2010 301 0.000081445 301 100%
2011 278 0.000076002 278 100%
2012 313 0.000085581 313 100%
2013 295 0.000080918 295 100%
2014 337 0.000090924 337 100%
2015 345 0.00009322 345 100%
2016 378 0.000103034 378 100%
2017 365 0.000102064 365 100%
2018 359 0.000102108 359 100%
2019 413 0.000118988 413 100%
2020 396 0.000118542 396 100%
2021 426 0.00012574 426 100%
2022 424 0.000125328 424 100%
2023 384 0.00011597 384 100%
2024 379 0.000113865 379 100%

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