How popular is “Leidy” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Leidy” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Leidy” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1974	6	0.000001974	6	100%
1987	5	0.000001387	5	100%
1988	7	0.000001894	7	100%
1989	8	0.000002081	8	100%
1990	13	0.000003289	13	100%
1991	12	0.000003081	12	100%
1992	9	0.000002343	9	100%
1993	11	0.000002918	11	100%
1994	7	0.000001883	7	100%
1995	8	0.000002185	8	100%
1996	13	0.000003564	13	100%
1997	13	0.000003585	13	100%
1998	18	0.000004894	18	100%
1999	15	0.000004061	15	100%
2000	22	0.00000582	22	100%
2001	18	0.000004808	18	100%
2002	22	0.000005885	22	100%
2003	26	0.000006838	26	100%
2004	26	0.000006805	26	100%
2005	32	0.000008323	32	100%
2006	50	0.000012638	50	100%
2007	38	0.000009506	38	100%
2008	40	0.000010176	40	100%
2009	34	0.0000089	34	100%
2010	33	0.000008929	33	100%
2011	22	0.000006015	22	100%
2012	19	0.000005195	19	100%
2013	24	0.000006583	24	100%
2014	22	0.000005936	22	100%
2015	28	0.000007566	28	100%
2016	46	0.000012539	46	100%
2017	31	0.000008668	31	100%
2018	26	0.000007395	26	100%
2019	28	0.000008067	28	100%
2020	23	0.000006885	23	100%
2021	18	0.000005313	18	100%
2022	23	0.000006798	23	100%
2023	23	0.000006946	23	100%
2024	29	0.000008713	29	100%

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