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How popular is “Lincoln” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lincoln” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lincoln” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lincoln” 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 10 0.000049632 10 -100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 13 0.000058682 13 -100%
1883 12 0.000055313 12 -100%
1885 11 0.000045671 11 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 15 0.000050088 15 -100%
1889 14 0.000048452 14 -100%
1890 13 0.000043132 13 -100%
1891 15 0.000052324 15 -100%
1892 17 0.000050841 17 -100%
1893 11 0.000033823 11 -100%
1894 10 0.000029526 10 -100%
1895 26 0.00007407 26 -100%
1896 13 0.000036365 13 -100%
1897 14 0.000040351 14 -100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 -100%
1899 14 0.000041269 14 -100%
1900 20 0.000044419 20 -100%
1901 10 0.000028917 10 -100%
1902 17 0.000043958 17 -100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 -100%
1904 15 0.000037176 15 -100%
1905 19 0.00004482 19 -100%
1906 18 0.000042012 18 -100%
1907 13 0.000027934 13 -100%
1908 20 0.000040929 20 -100%
1909 33 0.000064551 33 -100%
1910 36 0.000060944 36 -100%
1911 34 0.000052772 34 -100%
1912 49 0.000049592 49 -100%
1913 63 0.000055404 63 -100%
1914 103 0.000072722 103 -100%
1915 118 0.000064396 118 -100%
1916 130 0.000067204 130 -100%
1917 127 0.000063286 127 -100%
1918 128 0.000058956 128 -100%
1919 117 0.000055444 117 -100%
1920 137 0.000060549 137 -100%
1921 120 0.000051403 120 -100%
1922 108 0.000047179 108 -100%
1923 133 0.000057764 133 -100%
1924 156 0.000065502 156 -100%
1925 142 0.000060858 142 -100%
1926 144 0.00006272 144 -100%
1927 131 0.000056481 131 -100%
1928 130 0.000057498 130 -100%
1929 101 0.000046073 101 -100%
1930 86 0.000038681 86 -100%
1931 110 0.000052272 110 -100%
1932 96 0.00004547 96 -100%
1933 91 0.000045513 91 -100%
1934 92 0.000044299 92 -100%
1935 76 0.000036365 76 -100%
1936 72 0.000034656 72 -100%
1937 75 0.0000352 75 -100%
1938 76 0.000034349 76 -100%
1939 78 0.000035399 78 -100%
1940 70 0.000030399 70 -100%
1941 88 0.000036118 88 -100%
1942 96 0.000035141 96 -100%
1943 92 0.000032595 92 -100%
1944 76 0.000028252 76 -100%
1945 89 0.000033548 89 -100%
1946 75 0.000023472 75 -100%
1947 94 0.000026094 94 -100%
1948 75 0.000021723 75 -100%
1949 90 0.000025827 90 -100%
1950 87 0.000024833 87 -100%
1951 76 0.000020631 76 -100%
1952 95 0.000025013 95 -100%
1953 87 0.000022576 87 -100%
1954 68 0.000017082 68 -100%
1955 85 0.00002117 85 -100%
1956 72 0.000017463 72 -100%
1957 97 0.000023083 97 -100%
1958 72 0.000017417 72 -100%
1959 79 0.000019 79 -100%
1960 85 0.000020463 85 -100%
1961 119 0.000028728 119 -100%
1962 143 0.000035437 143 -100%
1963 193 0.00004876 193 -100%
1964 202 0.00005196 202 -100%
1965 128 0.000035306 128 -100%
1966 116 0.000033375 116 -100%
1967 98 0.000028867 98 -100%
1968 71 0.000021016 71 -100%
1969 105 0.000030213 105 -100%
1970 146 0.000040482 146 -100%
1971 181 0.000052733 181 -100%
1972 140 0.000044544 140 -100%
1973 103 0.000034141 103 -100%
1974 108 0.000035526 108 -100%
1975 147 0.000048685 147 -100%
1976 151 0.000049764 151 -100%
1977 149 0.000046907 149 -100%
1978 95 0.000029932 95 -100%
1979 98 0.000029456 98 -100%
1980 95 0.00002758 95 -100%
1981 119 0.000034399 119 -100%
1982 119 0.000033923 119 -100%
1983 112 0.000032339 112 -100%
1984 141 0.000040416 141 -100%
1985 122 0.000034182 5 117 -92%
1986 91 0.000025583 5 86 -89%
1987 124 0.000034391 124 -100%
1988 128 0.000034641 6 122 -91%
1989 122 0.000031734 122 -100%
1990 148 0.000037445 5 143 -93%
1991 160 0.000041076 7 153 -91%
1992 163 0.000042434 6 157 -93%
1993 190 0.000050394 12 178 -87%
1994 193 0.000051914 6 187 -94%
1995 200 0.000054613 9 191 -91%
1996 149 0.000040853 149 -100%
1997 163 0.000044956 7 156 -91%
1998 165 0.000044859 165 -100%
1999 214 0.000057934 214 -100%
2000 254 0.000067197 7 247 -94%
2001 316 0.000084415 7 309 -96%
2002 334 0.000089346 5 329 -97%
2003 416 0.000109407 6 410 -97%
2004 423 0.000110706 10 413 -95%
2005 512 0.000133165 10 502 -96%
2006 1118 0.000282595 9 1109 -98%
2007 1668 0.000417242 13 1655 -98%
2008 1839 0.00046786 22 1817 -98%
2009 2033 0.000532175 21 2012 -98%
2010 1886 0.000510317 15 1871 -98%
2011 2182 0.000596535 24 2158 -98%
2012 2946 0.000805498 34 2912 -98%
2013 4100 0.001124623 61 4039 -97%
2014 4951 0.001335806 127 4824 -95%
2015 6159 0.001664184 158 6001 -95%
2016 7291 0.001987354 164 7127 -96%
2017 8441 0.00236033 240 8201 -94%
2018 7571 0.002153362 165 7406 -96%
2019 7656 0.002205747 185 7471 -95%
2020 7241 0.002167589 183 7058 -95%
2021 6843 0.002019806 148 6695 -96%
2022 5750 0.001699607 126 5624 -96%
2023 4952 0.001495532 89 4863 -96%
2024 4644 0.001395223 77 4567 -97%

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