How popular is “Lee” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lee” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lee” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lee” 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	389	0.001930674	28	361	-86%
1881	381	0.00197729	39	342	-80%
1882	470	0.00212158	43	427	-82%
1883	443	0.002041983	55	388	-75%
1884	483	0.001983891	48	435	-80%
1885	394	0.001635846	46	348	-77%
1886	436	0.001707688	37	399	-83%
1887	460	0.001859397	60	400	-74%
1888	491	0.001639541	61	430	-75%
1889	492	0.00170274	77	415	-69%
1890	468	0.001552749	58	410	-75%
1891	410	0.001430201	68	342	-67%
1892	528	0.00157907	68	460	-74%
1893	511	0.00157123	66	445	-74%
1894	538	0.001588473	83	455	-69%
1895	576	0.001640932	98	478	-66%
1896	528	0.001476989	73	455	-72%
1897	550	0.001585211	97	453	-65%
1898	609	0.001596519	111	498	-64%
1899	482	0.001420848	94	388	-61%
1900	813	0.001805631	138	675	-66%
1901	519	0.001500816	95	424	-63%
1902	609	0.00157473	134	475	-56%
1903	587	0.001539874	110	477	-63%
1904	671	0.001663011	139	532	-59%
1905	651	0.00153566	165	486	-49%
1906	586	0.001367718	150	436	-49%
1907	708	0.001521305	192	516	-46%
1908	750	0.001534844	197	553	-47%
1909	780	0.00152575	196	584	-50%
1910	965	0.001633625	224	741	-54%
1911	904	0.001403121	258	646	-43%
1912	1342	0.001358214	312	1030	-54%
1913	1522	0.001338481	294	1228	-61%
1914	1856	0.001310416	405	1451	-56%
1915	2361	0.001288456	445	1916	-62%
1916	2491	0.001287726	475	2016	-62%
1917	2483	0.001237324	479	2004	-61%
1918	2666	0.001227943	507	2159	-62%
1919	2673	0.001266678	484	2189	-64%
1920	2864	0.001265776	543	2321	-62%
1921	2813	0.001204966	459	2354	-67%
1922	2867	0.001252427	496	2371	-65%
1923	2853	0.001239098	494	2359	-65%
1924	2908	0.001221023	488	2420	-66%
1925	3068	0.001314875	531	2537	-65%
1926	2855	0.001243518	542	2313	-62%
1927	2880	0.001241723	490	2390	-66%
1928	2795	0.001236213	513	2282	-63%
1929	2683	0.001223906	474	2209	-65%
1930	2826	0.00127109	465	2361	-67%
1931	2569	0.001220783	446	2123	-65%
1932	2741	0.001298258	457	2284	-67%
1933	2704	0.001352374	403	2301	-70%
1934	2800	0.001348218	422	2378	-70%
1935	2900	0.001387626	474	2426	-67%
1936	2857	0.001375159	439	2418	-69%
1937	2937	0.00137844	438	2499	-70%
1938	3025	0.001367186	450	2575	-70%
1939	3066	0.001391459	477	2589	-69%
1940	3115	0.001352769	492	2623	-68%
1941	3264	0.001339668	520	2744	-68%
1942	3505	0.001283028	583	2922	-67%
1943	3386	0.001199621	597	2789	-65%
1944	3529	0.001311857	600	2929	-66%
1945	3629	0.001367932	687	2942	-62%
1946	4153	0.001299719	807	3346	-61%
1947	4533	0.001258355	857	3676	-62%
1948	4287	0.001241702	842	3445	-61%
1949	4380	0.001256896	818	3562	-63%
1950	4429	0.001264216	818	3611	-63%
1951	4573	0.001241402	891	3682	-61%
1952	4603	0.001211952	948	3655	-59%
1953	4599	0.001193416	1015	3584	-56%
1954	4923	0.001236715	1357	3566	-45%
1955	5422	0.001350409	1816	3606	-33%
1956	5446	0.001320871	1937	3509	-29%
1957	5422	0.001290294	1834	3588	-32%
1958	5213	0.001261036	1696	3517	-35%
1959	5057	0.001216212	1549	3508	-39%
1960	4963	0.001194805	1531	3432	-38%
1961	4620	0.001115322	1494	3126	-35%
1962	4640	0.001149832	1380	3260	-41%
1963	4494	0.001135365	1479	3015	-34%
1964	4309	0.001108394	1272	3037	-41%
1965	4073	0.001123447	1300	2773	-36%
1966	4175	0.001201212	1211	2964	-42%
1967	4101	0.00120799	1140	2961	-44%
1968	4028	0.001192276	1160	2868	-42%
1969	3896	0.001121047	1134	2762	-42%
1970	3761	0.001042835	970	2791	-48%
1971	3345	0.00097455	873	2472	-48%
1972	2950	0.000938596	691	2259	-53%
1973	2764	0.000916176	658	2106	-52%
1974	2723	0.000895724	608	2115	-55%
1975	2444	0.000809434	585	1859	-52%
1976	2406	0.000792934	532	1874	-56%
1977	2575	0.000810642	561	2014	-56%
1978	2469	0.000777915	489	1980	-60%
1979	2701	0.000811843	622	2079	-54%
1980	2861	0.000830598	652	2209	-54%
1981	2747	0.000794074	532	2215	-61%
1982	2689	0.000766542	485	2204	-64%
1983	2290	0.000661212	373	1917	-67%
1984	2524	0.000723467	360	2164	-71%
1985	2316	0.000648901	310	2006	-73%
1986	2218	0.000623545	286	1932	-74%
1987	2054	0.000569667	243	1811	-76%
1988	2053	0.000555609	269	1784	-74%
1989	1777	0.000462225	232	1545	-74%
1990	1647	0.000416701	197	1450	-76%
1991	1461	0.000375071	162	1299	-78%
1992	1284	0.000334264	156	1128	-76%
1993	1149	0.000304752	159	990	-72%
1994	1042	0.000280284	125	917	-76%
1995	876	0.000239203	102	774	-77%
1996	815	0.000223459	94	721	-77%
1997	687	0.000189478	72	615	-79%
1998	694	0.000188679	87	607	-75%
1999	591	0.000159995	81	510	-73%
2000	569	0.000150533	67	502	-76%
2001	569	0.000152001	56	513	-80%
2002	481	0.000128668	42	439	-83%
2003	446	0.000117297	43	403	-81%
2004	455	0.000119081	43	412	-81%
2005	406	0.000105596	22	384	-89%
2006	420	0.000106163	29	391	-86%
2007	404	0.000101059	22	382	-89%
2008	378	0.000096167	17	361	-91%
2009	403	0.000105493	29	374	-86%
2010	384	0.000103903	31	353	-84%
2011	373	0.000101974	20	353	-89%
2012	379	0.000103626	22	357	-88%
2013	390	0.000106976	29	361	-85%
2014	372	0.000100368	23	349	-88%
2015	399	0.000107811	24	375	-88%
2016	423	0.0001153	33	390	-84%
2017	390	0.000109054	21	369	-89%
2018	378	0.000107512	26	352	-86%
2019	317	0.00009133	20	297	-87%
2020	341	0.000102078	28	313	-84%
2021	392	0.000115704	15	377	-92%
2022	403	0.00011912	26	377	-87%
2023	400	0.000120802	24	376	-88%
2024	395	0.000118672	25	370	-87%

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