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How popular is “Leroy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Leroy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Leroy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Leroy” 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 124 0.000615433 124 -100%
1881 129 0.000669476 129 -100%
1882 152 0.000686128 152 -100%
1883 143 0.00065915 143 -100%
1884 154 0.000632545 154 -100%
1885 162 0.000672607 162 -100%
1886 155 0.000607091 155 -100%
1887 177 0.000715464 177 -100%
1888 192 0.000641124 192 -100%
1889 186 0.000643719 186 -100%
1890 236 0.00078301 236 -100%
1891 190 0.000662776 190 -100%
1892 233 0.000696825 233 -100%
1893 244 0.000750254 244 -100%
1894 239 0.00070566 239 -100%
1895 249 0.000709361 249 -100%
1896 278 0.000777657 278 -100%
1897 291 0.000838721 291 -100%
1898 315 0.000825786 315 -100%
1899 269 0.000792963 269 -100%
1900 419 0.000930578 419 -100%
1901 268 0.000774988 268 -100%
1902 370 0.000956732 370 -100%
1903 340 0.00089192 340 -100%
1904 401 0.000993841 401 -100%
1905 441 0.001040286 441 -100%
1906 420 0.000980275 420 -100%
1907 555 0.001192548 5 550 -98%
1908 523 0.001070298 523 -100%
1909 568 0.001111059 568 -100%
1910 733 0.001240878 733 -100%
1911 706 0.0010958 706 -100%
1912 1313 0.001328864 7 1306 -99%
1913 1593 0.00140092 11 1582 -99%
1914 2010 0.001419147 6 2004 -99%
1915 2464 0.001344666 14 2450 -99%
1916 2720 0.001406108 21 2699 -98%
1917 2966 0.001478012 15 2951 -99%
1918 3442 0.001585363 20 3422 -99%
1919 3441 0.001630616 19 3422 -99%
1920 3571 0.001578243 22 3549 -99%
1921 3760 0.00161062 11 3749 -99%
1922 3690 0.001611948 19 3671 -99%
1923 3707 0.001610002 21 3686 -99%
1924 3948 0.001657702 26 3922 -99%
1925 3913 0.001677023 29 3884 -99%
1926 3835 0.001670365 27 3808 -99%
1927 3942 0.001699608 30 3912 -98%
1928 3900 0.001724948 29 3871 -99%
1929 3847 0.001754889 29 3818 -98%
1930 3843 0.001728521 39 3804 -98%
1931 3675 0.001746351 27 3648 -99%
1932 3710 0.001757219 33 3677 -98%
1933 3380 0.001690467 23 3357 -99%
1934 3796 0.001827798 22 3774 -99%
1935 3933 0.001881908 15 3918 -99%
1936 3663 0.001763111 19 3644 -99%
1937 3567 0.001674121 12 3555 -99%
1938 3508 0.001585484 17 3491 -99%
1939 3405 0.00154531 17 3388 -99%
1940 3330 0.001446138 19 3311 -99%
1941 3542 0.001453769 18 3524 -99%
1942 3733 0.001366489 16 3717 -99%
1943 3760 0.001332124 20 3740 -99%
1944 3431 0.001275427 22 3409 -99%
1945 3187 0.001201322 15 3172 -99%
1946 3491 0.00109254 20 3471 -99%
1947 3366 0.000934397 19 3347 -99%
1948 3251 0.000941632 17 3234 -99%
1949 2957 0.000848548 19 2938 -99%
1950 2862 0.00081693 27 2835 -98%
1951 2733 0.000741909 17 2716 -99%
1952 2662 0.000700894 17 2645 -99%
1953 2600 0.000674686 21 2579 -98%
1954 2661 0.000668474 22 2639 -98%
1955 2430 0.000605218 15 2415 -99%
1956 2366 0.000573849 14 2352 -99%
1957 2337 0.000556145 21 2316 -98%
1958 2093 0.000506301 19 2074 -98%
1959 2031 0.000488457 13 2018 -99%
1960 1885 0.0004538 18 1867 -98%
1961 1842 0.00044468 13 1829 -99%
1962 1711 0.000424001 8 1703 -99%
1963 1657 0.000418625 13 1644 -98%
1964 1593 0.000409764 8 1585 -99%
1965 1549 0.000427257 11 1538 -99%
1966 1360 0.000391293 11 1349 -98%
1967 1283 0.00037792 6 1277 -99%
1968 1206 0.000356972 9 1197 -99%
1969 1243 0.000357665 13 1230 -98%
1970 1176 0.000326077 7 1169 -99%
1971 1021 0.000297463 9 1012 -98%
1972 923 0.000293669 7 916 -98%
1973 807 0.000267494 807 -100%
1974 773 0.000254276 773 -100%
1975 811 0.000268597 12 799 -97%
1976 765 0.000252117 5 760 -99%
1977 741 0.000233276 6 735 -98%
1978 715 0.000225277 8 707 -98%
1979 737 0.000221521 7 730 -98%
1980 709 0.000205835 10 699 -97%
1981 623 0.00018009 7 616 -98%
1982 674 0.000192134 674 -100%
1983 529 0.000152743 5 524 -98%
1984 538 0.00015421 8 530 -97%
1985 545 0.000152699 6 539 -98%
1986 547 0.000153778 7 540 -97%
1987 506 0.000140337 7 499 -97%
1988 490 0.00013261 490 -100%
1989 488 0.000126936 488 -100%
1990 504 0.000127515 504 -100%
1991 454 0.000116552 5 449 -98%
1992 414 0.000107777 414 -100%
1993 361 0.000095749 361 -100%
1994 339 0.000091187 339 -100%
1995 341 0.000093115 341 -100%
1996 308 0.000084448 308 -100%
1997 308 0.000084948 308 -100%
1998 279 0.000075852 279 -100%
1999 252 0.000068221 252 -100%
2000 252 0.000066668 252 -100%
2001 215 0.000057435 215 -100%
2002 218 0.000058315 218 -100%
2003 225 0.000059174 225 -100%
2004 222 0.000058101 222 -100%
2005 187 0.000048637 187 -100%
2006 211 0.000053334 211 -100%
2007 195 0.000048778 195 -100%
2008 231 0.000058769 231 -100%
2009 201 0.000052615 201 -100%
2010 219 0.000059257 219 -100%
2011 187 0.000051124 187 -100%
2012 225 0.00006152 225 -100%
2013 206 0.000056505 206 -100%
2014 191 0.000051533 191 -100%
2015 209 0.000056473 209 -100%
2016 230 0.000062693 230 -100%
2017 227 0.000063475 227 -100%
2018 250 0.000071106 250 -100%
2019 224 0.000064536 224 -100%
2020 242 0.000072443 242 -100%
2021 254 0.000074972 254 -100%
2022 281 0.000083059 281 -100%
2023 270 0.000081542 270 -100%
2024 278 0.000083521 278 -100%

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