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How popular is “Lessie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lessie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lessie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lessie” 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 18 0.000089337 18 100%
1881 18 0.000093415 18 100%
1882 25 0.00011285 25 100%
1883 37 0.000170549 32 5 73%
1884 45 0.000184835 45 100%
1885 38 0.000157772 38 100%
1886 63 0.000246753 63 100%
1887 67 0.000270825 67 100%
1888 69 0.000230404 69 100%
1889 74 0.000256103 74 100%
1890 79 0.000262109 79 100%
1891 64 0.000223251 64 100%
1892 98 0.000293085 98 100%
1893 96 0.000295182 96 100%
1894 78 0.000230299 78 100%
1895 133 0.000378896 133 100%
1896 120 0.000335679 120 100%
1897 106 0.000305513 101 5 91%
1898 140 0.000367016 140 100%
1899 101 0.00029773 101 100%
1900 176 0.000390887 176 100%
1901 139 0.000401953 132 7 90%
1902 169 0.000436994 164 5 94%
1903 153 0.000401364 145 8 90%
1904 175 0.000433721 175 100%
1905 168 0.000396299 168 100%
1906 160 0.000373438 155 5 94%
1907 193 0.000414706 186 7 93%
1908 188 0.000384734 181 7 93%
1909 156 0.00030515 156 100%
1910 221 0.000374125 208 13 88%
1911 228 0.000353885 220 8 93%
1912 257 0.000260105 246 11 91%
1913 252 0.000221614 245 7 94%
1914 354 0.000249939 336 18 90%
1915 345 0.000188275 321 24 86%
1916 407 0.000210399 382 25 88%
1917 357 0.0001779 334 23 87%
1918 383 0.000176407 361 22 89%
1919 399 0.000189078 375 24 88%
1920 354 0.000156454 325 29 84%
1921 368 0.000157635 346 22 88%
1922 318 0.000138916 296 22 86%
1923 340 0.000147667 319 21 88%
1924 341 0.00014318 315 26 85%
1925 349 0.000149573 318 31 82%
1926 273 0.000118907 254 19 86%
1927 288 0.000124172 277 11 92%
1928 255 0.000112785 239 16 87%
1929 249 0.000113587 240 9 93%
1930 264 0.000118743 245 19 86%
1931 209 0.000099316 196 13 88%
1932 222 0.000105149 206 16 86%
1933 191 0.000095526 174 17 82%
1934 217 0.000104487 191 26 76%
1935 195 0.000093306 167 28 71%
1936 180 0.000086639 168 12 87%
1937 189 0.000088704 171 18 81%
1938 177 0.000079997 167 10 89%
1939 165 0.000074883 148 17 79%
1940 160 0.000069484 141 19 76%
1941 171 0.000070185 145 26 70%
1942 154 0.000056373 140 14 82%
1943 162 0.000057395 148 14 83%
1944 123 0.000045724 113 10 84%
1945 143 0.000053903 128 15 79%
1946 155 0.000048509 140 15 81%
1947 163 0.000045249 142 21 74%
1948 150 0.000043447 139 11 85%
1949 130 0.000037305 115 15 77%
1950 114 0.00003254 102 12 79%
1951 124 0.000033661 113 11 82%
1952 107 0.000028173 99 8 85%
1953 110 0.000028544 101 9 84%
1954 103 0.000025875 96 7 86%
1955 124 0.000030884 104 20 68%
1956 86 0.000020858 76 10 77%
1957 86 0.000020466 78 8 81%
1958 74 0.000017901 68 6 84%
1959 61 0.000014671 53 8 74%
1960 60 0.000014445 49 11 63%
1961 80 0.000019313 69 11 73%
1962 66 0.000016355 55 11 67%
1963 56 0.000014148 49 7 75%
1964 56 0.000014405 56 100%
1965 44 0.000012136 44 100%
1966 55 0.000015824 49 6 78%
1967 23 0.000006775 23 100%
1968 42 0.000012432 42 100%
1969 39 0.000011222 33 6 69%
1970 22 0.0000061 17 5 55%
1971 36 0.000010488 30 6 67%
1972 16 0.000005091 16 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1974 24 0.000007895 24 100%
1975 19 0.000006293 19 100%
1976 23 0.00000758 23 100%
1977 15 0.000004722 9 6 20%
1978 18 0.000005671 18 100%
1979 25 0.000007514 19 6 52%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 100%
1981 18 0.000005203 18 100%
1982 23 0.000006557 23 100%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 100%
1984 19 0.000005446 19 100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 100%
1986 13 0.000003655 8 5 23%
1987 16 0.000004438 16 100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 100%
1991 15 0.000003851 15 100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%

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