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How popular is “Leighton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Leighton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Leighton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Leighton” 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
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 -100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 -100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 -100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 -100%
1912 20 0.000020242 20 -100%
1913 17 0.00001495 17 -100%
1914 29 0.000020475 29 -100%
1915 27 0.000014735 27 -100%
1916 31 0.000016026 31 -100%
1917 40 0.000019933 40 -100%
1918 44 0.000020266 44 -100%
1919 31 0.00001469 31 -100%
1920 42 0.000018562 42 -100%
1921 48 0.000020561 48 -100%
1922 45 0.000019658 45 -100%
1923 58 0.00002519 58 -100%
1924 49 0.000020574 49 -100%
1925 44 0.000018857 44 -100%
1926 36 0.00001568 36 -100%
1927 36 0.000015522 36 -100%
1928 40 0.000017692 40 -100%
1929 42 0.000019159 42 -100%
1930 43 0.000019341 43 -100%
1931 45 0.000021384 45 -100%
1932 38 0.000017998 38 -100%
1933 26 0.000013004 26 -100%
1934 33 0.00001589 33 -100%
1935 30 0.000014355 30 -100%
1936 35 0.000016847 35 -100%
1937 26 0.000012203 26 -100%
1938 40 0.000018078 40 -100%
1939 33 0.000014977 33 -100%
1940 40 0.000017371 40 -100%
1941 37 0.000015186 37 -100%
1942 47 0.000017205 47 -100%
1943 43 0.000015234 43 -100%
1944 47 0.000017472 47 -100%
1945 45 0.000016963 45 -100%
1946 53 0.000016587 53 -100%
1947 36 0.000009994 36 -100%
1948 34 0.000009848 34 -100%
1949 41 0.000011765 41 -100%
1950 42 0.000011988 42 -100%
1951 38 0.000010316 38 -100%
1952 48 0.000012638 48 -100%
1953 42 0.000010899 42 -100%
1954 42 0.000010551 42 -100%
1955 40 0.000009962 40 -100%
1956 53 0.000012855 6 47 -77%
1957 31 0.000007377 31 -100%
1958 25 0.000006048 25 -100%
1959 28 0.000006734 28 -100%
1960 37 0.000008907 37 -100%
1961 26 0.000006277 26 -100%
1962 38 0.000009417 38 -100%
1963 40 0.000010106 40 -100%
1964 21 0.000005402 21 -100%
1965 19 0.000005241 19 -100%
1966 27 0.000007768 27 -100%
1967 27 0.000007953 27 -100%
1968 34 0.000010064 34 -100%
1969 39 0.000011222 39 -100%
1970 25 0.000006932 25 -100%
1971 34 0.000009906 34 -100%
1972 33 0.0000105 33 -100%
1973 40 0.000013259 40 -100%
1974 41 0.000013487 41 -100%
1975 43 0.000014241 43 -100%
1976 41 0.000013512 41 -100%
1977 31 0.000009759 31 -100%
1978 43 0.000013548 43 -100%
1979 58 0.000017433 58 -100%
1980 41 0.000011903 41 -100%
1981 56 0.000016188 56 -100%
1982 58 0.000016534 5 53 -83%
1983 62 0.000017902 5 57 -84%
1984 58 0.000016625 6 52 -79%
1985 60 0.000016811 7 53 -77%
1986 59 0.000016587 9 50 -69%
1987 58 0.000016086 9 49 -69%
1988 68 0.000018403 7 61 -79%
1989 86 0.00002237 9 77 -79%
1990 79 0.000019987 8 71 -80%
1991 90 0.000023105 12 78 -73%
1992 131 0.000034103 16 115 -76%
1993 98 0.000025993 7 91 -86%
1994 113 0.000030396 15 98 -73%
1995 115 0.000031402 25 90 -57%
1996 144 0.000039482 33 111 -54%
1997 133 0.000036682 42 91 -37%
1998 142 0.000038606 35 107 -51%
1999 140 0.000037901 34 106 -51%
2000 139 0.000036773 37 102 -47%
2001 141 0.000037666 31 110 -56%
2002 158 0.000042265 30 128 -62%
2003 148 0.000038924 30 118 -59%
2004 131 0.000034285 32 99 -51%
2005 166 0.000043175 38 128 -54%
2006 183 0.000046257 37 146 -60%
2007 193 0.000048278 53 140 -45%
2008 372 0.00009464 213 159 15%
2009 606 0.000158631 431 175 42%
2010 669 0.000181019 452 217 35%
2011 767 0.000209689 549 218 43%
2012 705 0.000192762 521 184 48%
2013 730 0.000200238 546 184 50%
2014 808 0.000218003 568 240 41%
2015 941 0.000254262 680 261 45%
2016 1023 0.000278846 756 267 48%
2017 906 0.000253342 668 238 47%
2018 981 0.000279018 712 269 45%
2019 1118 0.000322104 752 366 35%
2020 1103 0.000330182 777 326 41%
2021 1105 0.000326156 824 281 49%
2022 1144 0.000338148 842 302 47%
2023 1085 0.000327676 853 232 57%
2024 1010 0.00030344 797 213 58%

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