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How popular is “Laurie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Laurie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Laurie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Laurie” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 100%
1886 13 0.000050917 7 6 8%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 100%
1889 8 0.000027687 8 100%
1891 12 0.00004186 12 100%
1892 8 0.000023925 8 100%
1893 16 0.000049197 7 9 -13%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 100%
1895 12 0.000034186 12 100%
1896 18 0.000050352 12 6 33%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 13 0.000038322 8 5 23%
1900 24 0.000053303 13 11 8%
1901 11 0.000031809 6 5 9%
1902 14 0.000036201 9 5 29%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 100%
1906 11 0.000025674 11 100%
1907 18 0.000038677 12 6 33%
1908 22 0.000045022 17 5 55%
1909 18 0.00003521 11 7 22%
1910 26 0.000044015 18 8 38%
1911 14 0.00002173 14 100%
1912 31 0.000031375 13 18 -16%
1913 41 0.000036056 22 19 7%
1914 46 0.000032478 28 18 22%
1915 62 0.000033835 38 24 23%
1916 72 0.000037221 41 31 14%
1917 72 0.000035879 43 29 19%
1918 74 0.000034084 47 27 27%
1919 60 0.000028433 32 28 7%
1920 76 0.000033589 49 27 29%
1921 76 0.000032555 44 32 16%
1922 68 0.000029705 45 23 32%
1923 83 0.000036048 46 37 11%
1924 80 0.000033591 34 46 -15%
1925 72 0.000030858 36 36 0%
1926 85 0.000037022 41 44 -4%
1927 86 0.000037079 56 30 30%
1928 79 0.000034941 48 31 22%
1929 78 0.000035581 50 28 28%
1930 99 0.000044529 65 34 31%
1931 64 0.000030413 44 20 38%
1932 84 0.000039786 52 32 24%
1933 71 0.00003551 41 30 15%
1934 116 0.000055855 71 45 22%
1935 95 0.000045457 68 27 43%
1936 108 0.000051984 75 33 39%
1937 116 0.000054443 82 34 41%
1938 130 0.000058755 99 31 52%
1939 168 0.000076244 137 31 63%
1940 154 0.000066878 135 19 75%
1941 204 0.000083729 178 26 75%
1942 266 0.000097371 232 34 74%
1943 290 0.000102744 258 32 78%
1944 394 0.000146464 361 33 83%
1945 621 0.000234083 592 29 91%
1946 799 0.000250054 769 30 92%
1947 834 0.000231517 789 45 89%
1948 835 0.000241852 805 30 93%
1949 1145 0.000328572 1104 41 93%
1950 1428 0.000407609 1391 37 95%
1951 2377 0.000645268 2353 24 98%
1952 3302 0.000869404 3271 31 98%
1953 3716 0.000964282 3686 30 98%
1954 4313 0.001083476 4290 23 99%
1955 4980 0.001240324 4954 26 99%
1956 6238 0.001512962 6206 32 99%
1957 6567 0.001562774 6543 24 99%
1958 6759 0.001635016 6734 25 99%
1959 7567 0.001819869 7534 33 99%
1960 10174 0.002449315 10144 30 99%
1961 10468 0.002527098 10433 35 99%
1962 10705 0.002652791 10674 31 99%
1963 9312 0.002352585 9275 37 99%
1964 7863 0.002022582 7833 30 99%
1965 6560 0.001809431 6533 27 99%
1966 5690 0.001637102 5667 23 99%
1967 4939 0.001454831 4923 16 99%
1968 4363 0.001291435 4340 23 99%
1969 4643 0.001335991 4627 16 99%
1970 4410 0.001222787 4392 18 99%
1971 3766 0.001097206 3750 16 99%
1972 3242 0.001031501 3228 14 99%
1973 2916 0.000966559 2897 19 99%
1974 2572 0.000846053 2555 17 99%
1975 2295 0.000760086 2284 11 99%
1976 2051 0.000675938 2038 13 99%
1977 1773 0.000558163 1766 7 99%
1978 1622 0.000511048 1613 9 99%
1979 1587 0.000477006 1581 6 99%
1980 1342 0.000389606 1336 6 99%
1981 1235 0.000357001 1224 11 98%
1982 1191 0.000339513 1185 6 99%
1983 958 0.000276612 952 6 99%
1984 817 0.000234181 817 100%
1985 779 0.000218262 779 100%
1986 591 0.000166148 591 100%
1987 519 0.000143942 519 100%
1988 476 0.000128821 476 100%
1989 448 0.000116532 448 100%
1990 350 0.000088552 345 5 97%
1991 314 0.000080611 314 100%
1992 269 0.000070029 269 100%
1993 200 0.000053046 200 100%
1994 196 0.000052721 196 100%
1995 166 0.000045329 166 100%
1996 135 0.000037015 135 100%
1997 146 0.000040268 146 100%
1998 137 0.000037246 137 100%
1999 118 0.000031945 118 100%
2000 99 0.000026191 99 100%
2001 98 0.000026179 98 100%
2002 88 0.00002354 88 100%
2003 89 0.000023407 89 100%
2004 76 0.00001989 76 100%
2005 97 0.000025229 97 100%
2006 91 0.000023002 91 100%
2007 69 0.00001726 69 100%
2008 80 0.000020353 80 100%
2009 57 0.000014921 57 100%
2010 62 0.000016776 62 100%
2011 49 0.000013396 49 100%
2012 41 0.00001121 41 100%
2013 68 0.000018652 68 100%
2014 56 0.000015109 56 100%
2015 71 0.000019184 71 100%
2016 48 0.000013084 48 100%
2017 55 0.000015379 55 100%
2018 56 0.000015928 56 100%
2019 49 0.000014117 49 100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 100%
2021 51 0.000015053 51 100%
2022 51 0.000015075 51 100%
2023 38 0.000011476 38 100%
2024 52 0.000015623 52 100%

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