Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Libra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Libra” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Libra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Libra” 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
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 100%
1972 14 0.000004454 14 100%
1973 24 0.000007955 24 100%
1974 25 0.000008224 25 100%
1975 22 0.000007286 22 100%
1976 33 0.000010876 33 100%
1977 17 0.000005352 17 100%
1978 16 0.000005041 16 100%
1979 16 0.000004809 16 100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Libra:

  1. Libna
  2. Libni
  3. Libny
  4. Liboria
  5. Liborio
  6. Libra (this page)
  7. Librada
  8. Librado
  9. Liby
  10. Libya
  11. Lica