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How popular is “Lavender” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lavender” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lavender” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lavender” 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
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1997 19 0.00000524 19 100%
1998 23 0.000006253 23 100%
1999 27 0.000007309 27 100%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 100%
2001 32 0.000008548 32 100%
2002 31 0.000008293 31 100%
2003 20 0.00000526 20 100%
2004 26 0.000006805 26 100%
2005 32 0.000008323 32 100%
2006 37 0.000009352 37 100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 100%
2008 29 0.000007378 29 100%
2009 37 0.000009685 37 100%
2010 24 0.000006494 24 100%
2011 35 0.000009569 35 100%
2012 53 0.000014491 53 100%
2013 48 0.000013166 48 100%
2014 48 0.000012951 48 100%
2015 61 0.000016482 61 100%
2016 85 0.000023169 85 100%
2017 86 0.000024048 86 100%
2018 101 0.000028727 101 100%
2019 115 0.000033132 115 100%
2020 153 0.0000458 153 100%
2021 157 0.000046341 157 100%
2022 189 0.000055865 189 100%
2023 203 0.000061307 203 100%
2024 258 0.000077512 258 100%

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  8. Lavenia
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  10. Laveon
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