How popular is “Lexington” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Lexington” 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 “Lexington” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Lexington” 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	Males	Bias toward female
1987	5	0.000001387		5	-100%
1988	9	0.000002436		9	-100%
1989	15	0.000003902	7	8	-7%
1990	6	0.000001518		6	-100%
1991	5	0.000001284	5		100%
1992	18	0.000004686	8	10	-11%
1993	18	0.000004774	10	8	11%
1994	16	0.000004304	7	9	-13%
1995	20	0.000005461	11	9	10%
1996	25	0.000006855	19	6	52%
1997	32	0.000008826	21	11	31%
1998	32	0.0000087	20	12	25%
1999	27	0.000007309	18	9	33%
2000	35	0.000009259	24	11	37%
2001	37	0.000009884	24	13	30%
2002	50	0.000013375	38	12	52%
2003	40	0.00001052	24	16	20%
2004	45	0.000011777	30	15	33%
2005	39	0.000010143	19	20	-3%
2006	47	0.00001188	30	17	28%
2007	37	0.000009255	19	18	3%
2008	48	0.000012212	21	27	-13%
2009	77	0.000020156	39	38	1%
2010	77	0.000020835	49	28	27%
2011	75	0.000020504	52	23	39%
2012	77	0.000021053	49	28	27%
2013	106	0.000029076	76	30	43%
2014	127	0.000034265	83	44	31%
2015	117	0.000031614	81	36	38%
2016	123	0.000033527	77	46	25%
2017	115	0.000032157	74	41	29%
2018	153	0.000043517	75	78	-2%
2019	148	0.00004264	70	78	-5%
2020	150	0.000044902	58	92	-23%
2021	125	0.000036895	51	74	-18%
2022	97	0.000028672	45	52	-7%
2023	75	0.00002265	35	40	-7%
2024	61	0.000018327	29	32	-5%

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