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How popular is “Lassie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lassie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lassie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lassie” 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
1883 5 0.000023047 5 100%
1886 7 0.000027417 7 100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1890 11 0.000036496 11 100%
1891 14 0.000048836 14 100%
1892 13 0.000038879 13 100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 100%
1896 14 0.000039163 14 100%
1897 15 0.000043233 15 100%
1898 11 0.000028837 11 100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1901 14 0.000040484 14 100%
1902 14 0.000036201 14 100%
1903 13 0.000034103 13 100%
1904 11 0.000027262 11 100%
1905 12 0.000028307 12 100%
1906 11 0.000025674 11 100%
1907 12 0.000025785 12 100%
1908 20 0.000040929 20 100%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 100%
1910 21 0.00003555 21 100%
1911 13 0.000020178 13 100%
1912 26 0.000026314 26 100%
1913 13 0.000011432 13 100%
1914 16 0.000011297 16 100%
1915 32 0.000017463 32 100%
1916 42 0.000021712 42 100%
1917 23 0.000011461 23 100%
1918 29 0.000013357 29 100%
1919 32 0.000015164 32 100%
1920 26 0.000011491 26 100%
1921 25 0.000010709 25 100%
1922 29 0.000012668 29 100%
1923 25 0.000010858 25 100%
1924 20 0.000008398 20 100%
1925 27 0.000011572 27 100%
1926 22 0.000009582 22 100%
1927 23 0.000009917 23 100%
1928 24 0.000010615 24 100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 100%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 100%
1934 15 0.000007223 15 100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 100%
1936 13 0.000006257 13 100%
1937 11 0.000005163 11 100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1939 14 0.000006354 14 100%
1940 17 0.000007383 17 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%

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