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How popular is “Lark” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lark” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lark” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lark” 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
1885 7 0.000029063 7 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1922 11 0.000004805 11 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1945 13 0.0000049 7 6 8%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1949 72 0.000020661 66 6 83%
1950 67 0.000019125 67 100%
1951 54 0.000014659 54 100%
1952 60 0.000015798 60 100%
1953 51 0.000013234 51 100%
1954 46 0.000011556 38 8 65%
1955 38 0.000009464 38 100%
1956 31 0.000007519 31 100%
1957 24 0.000005711 24 100%
1958 48 0.000011611 41 7 71%
1959 37 0.000008899 26 11 41%
1960 29 0.000006982 24 5 66%
1961 31 0.000007484 21 10 35%
1962 22 0.000005452 12 10 9%
1963 19 0.0000048 12 7 26%
1964 21 0.000005402 14 7 33%
1965 17 0.000004689 11 6 29%
1966 17 0.000004891 9 8 6%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1969 18 0.000005179 12 6 33%
1970 27 0.000007486 22 5 63%
1971 23 0.000006701 23 100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 12 0.000003974 12 100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 100%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 100%
1980 13 0.000003774 13 100%
1981 19 0.000005492 19 100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 11 0.000003082 11 100%
1986 14 0.000003936 14 100%
1987 13 0.000003605 8 5 23%
1988 17 0.000004601 12 5 41%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 100%
1993 15 0.000003978 15 100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 100%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 100%
1999 15 0.000004061 15 100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 100%
2007 19 0.000004753 19 100%
2008 21 0.000005343 21 100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 100%
2010 28 0.000007576 28 100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 100%
2012 24 0.000006562 24 100%
2013 38 0.000010423 38 100%
2014 38 0.000010253 38 100%
2015 38 0.000010268 38 100%
2016 47 0.000012811 40 7 70%
2017 64 0.000017896 58 6 81%
2018 54 0.000015359 54 100%
2019 64 0.000018439 57 7 78%
2020 65 0.000019458 59 6 82%
2021 62 0.0000183 56 6 81%
2022 69 0.000020395 61 8 77%
2023 52 0.000015704 45 7 73%
2024 49 0.000014721 44 5 80%

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