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How popular is “Laverne” in the USA?

Number of people named “Laverne” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Laverne” by birth year

This chart shows how “Laverne” 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 13 0.000053975 7 6 8%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 100%
1888 12 0.00004007 5 7 -17%
1889 15 0.000051913 8 7 7%
1890 16 0.000053085 9 7 13%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1892 18 0.000053832 12 6 33%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 100%
1894 21 0.000062004 15 6 43%
1895 26 0.00007407 20 6 54%
1896 35 0.000097906 26 9 49%
1897 32 0.00009223 24 8 50%
1898 36 0.000094375 26 10 44%
1899 26 0.000076643 26 100%
1900 50 0.000111047 39 11 56%
1901 50 0.000144587 42 8 68%
1902 49 0.000126702 37 12 51%
1903 51 0.000133788 41 10 61%
1904 61 0.000151183 47 14 54%
1905 77 0.000181637 53 24 38%
1906 89 0.000207725 73 16 64%
1907 83 0.000178345 58 25 40%
1908 114 0.000233296 91 23 60%
1909 125 0.000244511 100 25 60%
1910 160 0.00027086 134 26 68%
1911 181 0.000280935 136 45 50%
1912 304 0.000307673 225 79 48%
1913 407 0.000357925 288 119 42%
1914 541 0.000381969 379 162 40%
1915 795 0.000433851 564 231 42%
1916 885 0.000457502 642 243 45%
1917 1037 0.000516756 762 275 47%
1918 1308 0.000602457 965 343 48%
1919 1281 0.000607038 944 337 47%
1920 1469 0.000649241 1094 375 49%
1921 1568 0.000671663 1163 405 48%
1922 1628 0.000711179 1214 414 49%
1923 1720 0.00074702 1306 414 52%
1924 1785 0.000749493 1383 402 55%
1925 1736 0.00074401 1335 401 54%
1926 1726 0.000751773 1327 399 54%
1927 1754 0.000756244 1333 421 52%
1928 1721 0.000761189 1293 428 50%
1929 1562 0.000712539 1194 368 53%
1930 1498 0.000673777 1096 402 46%
1931 1437 0.000682859 1042 395 45%
1932 1293 0.000612421 927 366 43%
1933 1161 0.000580661 862 299 48%
1934 1143 0.000550362 820 323 43%
1935 1085 0.000519164 785 300 45%
1936 987 0.000475072 711 276 44%
1937 997 0.000467928 692 305 39%
1938 924 0.000417613 639 285 38%
1939 814 0.000369422 615 199 51%
1940 810 0.000351763 579 231 43%
1941 806 0.000330813 565 241 40%
1942 808 0.000295774 588 220 46%
1943 748 0.000265008 536 212 43%
1944 709 0.000263561 517 192 46%
1945 757 0.000285347 598 159 58%
1946 779 0.000243795 609 170 56%
1947 780 0.000216527 603 177 55%
1948 809 0.000234322 661 148 63%
1949 717 0.000205752 605 112 69%
1950 723 0.000206373 603 120 67%
1951 745 0.00020224 622 123 67%
1952 694 0.000182728 588 106 69%
1953 647 0.000167893 536 111 66%
1954 618 0.000155249 511 107 65%
1955 754 0.000187792 653 101 73%
1956 679 0.000164684 594 85 75%
1957 686 0.00016325 601 85 75%
1958 586 0.000141755 526 60 80%
1959 609 0.000146465 538 71 77%
1960 577 0.000138908 498 79 73%
1961 521 0.000125776 451 70 73%
1962 472 0.000116966 411 61 74%
1963 469 0.000118488 403 66 72%
1964 389 0.000100062 337 52 73%
1965 341 0.000094057 291 50 71%
1966 332 0.000095522 282 50 70%
1967 259 0.000076291 216 43 67%
1968 263 0.000077847 219 44 67%
1969 209 0.000060138 163 46 56%
1970 201 0.000055732 161 40 60%
1971 179 0.000052151 154 25 72%
1972 142 0.00004518 113 29 59%
1973 126 0.000041765 101 25 60%
1974 116 0.000038158 86 30 48%
1975 97 0.000032126 79 18 63%
1976 112 0.000036911 89 23 59%
1977 101 0.000031796 81 20 60%
1978 70 0.000022055 52 18 49%
1979 58 0.000017433 42 16 45%
1980 53 0.000015387 31 22 17%
1981 49 0.000014164 36 13 47%
1982 55 0.000015679 45 10 64%
1983 36 0.000010395 27 9 50%
1984 35 0.000010032 26 9 49%
1985 35 0.000009806 21 14 20%
1986 23 0.000006466 15 8 30%
1987 23 0.000006379 13 10 13%
1988 27 0.000007307 19 8 41%
1989 27 0.000007023 19 8 41%
1990 28 0.000007084 18 10 29%
1991 21 0.000005391 16 5 52%
1992 23 0.000005988 15 8 30%
1993 18 0.000004774 13 5 44%
1994 23 0.000006187 13 10 13%
1995 13 0.00000355 6 7 -8%
1996 12 0.00000329 5 7 -17%
1997 13 0.000003585 5 8 -23%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 100%
1999 11 0.000002978 11 -100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 -100%
2003 10 0.00000263 5 5 0%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%
2023 13 0.000003926 13 -100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 -100%

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