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How popular is “Lavern” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lavern” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lavern” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lavern” 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
1880 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1897 14 0.000040351 9 5 29%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 13 0.000028872 7 6 8%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 100%
1902 14 0.000036201 9 5 29%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 100%
1904 15 0.000037176 8 7 7%
1905 21 0.000049537 8 13 -24%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 -100%
1907 17 0.000036529 8 9 -6%
1908 25 0.000051161 15 10 20%
1909 30 0.000058683 14 16 -7%
1910 34 0.000057558 17 17 0%
1911 48 0.000074502 24 24 0%
1912 72 0.00007287 18 54 -50%
1913 101 0.000088822 34 67 -33%
1914 140 0.000098846 53 87 -24%
1915 203 0.000110782 68 135 -33%
1916 207 0.000107009 64 143 -38%
1917 254 0.000126573 100 154 -21%
1918 318 0.000146469 128 190 -19%
1919 331 0.000156854 112 219 -32%
1920 367 0.0001622 131 236 -29%
1921 393 0.000168344 140 253 -29%
1922 390 0.000170368 119 271 -39%
1923 418 0.000181543 131 287 -37%
1924 435 0.00018265 145 290 -33%
1925 383 0.000164145 127 256 -34%
1926 388 0.000168997 143 245 -26%
1927 416 0.00017936 142 274 -32%
1928 389 0.000172052 125 264 -36%
1929 370 0.000168783 118 252 -36%
1930 390 0.000175416 128 262 -34%
1931 355 0.000168695 104 251 -41%
1932 366 0.000173354 120 246 -34%
1933 331 0.000165546 105 226 -37%
1934 353 0.000169972 105 248 -41%
1935 321 0.000153596 112 209 -30%
1936 268 0.000128996 94 174 -30%
1937 290 0.000136107 87 203 -40%
1938 286 0.000129261 98 188 -31%
1939 243 0.000110282 73 170 -40%
1940 257 0.000111609 83 174 -35%
1941 250 0.000102609 95 155 -24%
1942 255 0.000093344 104 151 -18%
1943 228 0.000080778 80 148 -30%
1944 224 0.000083269 94 130 -16%
1945 232 0.000087451 112 120 -3%
1946 241 0.000075423 113 128 -6%
1947 248 0.000068844 122 126 -2%
1948 239 0.000069225 112 127 -6%
1949 213 0.000061123 93 120 -13%
1950 210 0.000059942 83 127 -21%
1951 181 0.000049135 95 86 5%
1952 245 0.000064508 132 113 8%
1953 205 0.000053196 102 103 -0%
1954 224 0.000056271 140 84 25%
1955 285 0.000070982 176 109 24%
1956 260 0.00006306 161 99 24%
1957 276 0.000065681 186 90 35%
1958 241 0.000058298 160 81 33%
1959 231 0.000055556 163 68 41%
1960 237 0.000057056 142 95 20%
1961 188 0.000045385 116 72 23%
1962 174 0.000043119 108 66 24%
1963 169 0.000042696 113 56 34%
1964 150 0.000038584 97 53 29%
1965 126 0.000034754 72 54 14%
1966 127 0.00003654 66 61 4%
1967 119 0.000035053 70 49 18%
1968 105 0.00003108 57 48 9%
1969 91 0.000026185 43 48 -5%
1970 97 0.000026896 59 38 22%
1971 83 0.000024182 45 38 8%
1972 69 0.000021954 33 36 -4%
1973 61 0.00002022 28 33 -8%
1974 64 0.000021053 32 32 0%
1975 53 0.000017553 31 22 17%
1976 52 0.000017137 23 29 -12%
1977 48 0.000015111 27 21 13%
1978 19 0.000005986 6 13 -37%
1979 34 0.000010219 15 19 -12%
1980 37 0.000010742 16 21 -14%
1981 39 0.000011274 14 25 -28%
1982 27 0.000007697 10 17 -26%
1983 29 0.000008373 14 15 -3%
1984 32 0.000009172 12 20 -25%
1985 25 0.000007005 8 17 -36%
1986 40 0.000011245 15 25 -25%
1987 31 0.000008598 10 21 -35%
1988 36 0.000009743 16 20 -11%
1989 30 0.000007803 11 19 -27%
1990 40 0.00001012 15 25 -25%
1991 27 0.000006931 12 15 -11%
1992 26 0.000006769 8 18 -38%
1993 30 0.000007957 7 23 -53%
1994 17 0.000004573 5 12 -41%
1995 19 0.000005188 19 -100%
1996 21 0.000005758 21 -100%
1997 16 0.000004413 6 10 -25%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 -100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 -100%
2000 25 0.000006614 25 -100%
2001 22 0.000005877 22 -100%
2002 26 0.000006955 26 -100%
2003 21 0.000005523 21 -100%
2004 21 0.000005496 21 -100%
2005 22 0.000005722 22 -100%
2006 30 0.000007583 7 23 -53%
2007 21 0.000005253 21 -100%
2008 24 0.000006106 24 -100%
2009 28 0.00000733 28 -100%
2010 30 0.000008117 30 -100%
2011 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 25 0.000006857 25 -100%
2014 25 0.000006745 25 -100%
2015 21 0.000005674 21 -100%
2016 25 0.000006814 25 -100%
2017 20 0.000005593 20 -100%
2018 19 0.000005404 19 -100%
2019 23 0.000006626 23 -100%
2020 26 0.000007783 26 -100%
2021 30 0.000008855 30 -100%
2022 31 0.000009163 31 -100%
2023 35 0.00001057 35 -100%
2024 26 0.000007811 26 -100%

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