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How popular is “Lindsay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lindsay” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lindsay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lindsay” 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 7 0.000034742 7 -100%
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1882 9 0.000040626 9 -100%
1884 9 0.000036967 9 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 -100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 -100%
1890 13 0.000043132 13 -100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1893 21 0.000064571 21 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1899 10 0.000029478 10 -100%
1900 15 0.000033314 15 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1902 9 0.000023272 9 -100%
1903 10 0.000026233 10 -100%
1904 13 0.000032219 13 -100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 -100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1909 11 0.000021517 11 -100%
1910 12 0.000020315 12 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 17 0.000017205 17 -100%
1913 27 0.000023744 27 -100%
1914 38 0.00002683 38 -100%
1915 40 0.000021829 40 -100%
1916 48 0.000024814 6 42 -75%
1917 45 0.000022424 45 -100%
1918 38 0.000017503 38 -100%
1919 36 0.00001706 36 -100%
1920 58 0.000025634 58 -100%
1921 45 0.000019276 5 40 -78%
1922 39 0.000017037 39 -100%
1923 45 0.000019544 45 -100%
1924 52 0.000021834 52 -100%
1925 50 0.000021429 50 -100%
1926 43 0.000018729 7 36 -67%
1927 40 0.000017246 40 -100%
1928 60 0.000026538 7 53 -77%
1929 44 0.000020072 44 -100%
1930 40 0.000017991 40 -100%
1931 36 0.000017107 36 -100%
1932 41 0.000019419 41 -100%
1933 33 0.000016505 33 -100%
1934 42 0.000020223 42 -100%
1935 35 0.000016747 35 -100%
1936 59 0.000028398 15 44 -49%
1937 50 0.000023467 8 42 -68%
1938 52 0.000023502 6 46 -77%
1939 43 0.000019515 5 38 -77%
1940 49 0.00002128 10 39 -59%
1941 46 0.00001888 9 37 -61%
1942 50 0.000018303 12 38 -52%
1943 66 0.000023383 15 51 -55%
1944 59 0.000021932 22 37 -25%
1945 68 0.000025632 18 50 -47%
1946 87 0.000027227 31 56 -29%
1947 120 0.000033312 59 61 -2%
1948 133 0.000038523 68 65 2%
1949 147 0.000042183 83 64 13%
1950 213 0.000060799 116 97 9%
1951 218 0.000059179 112 106 3%
1952 226 0.000059505 125 101 11%
1953 225 0.000058386 95 130 -16%
1954 171 0.000042957 77 94 -10%
1955 214 0.000053299 92 122 -14%
1956 179 0.000043415 83 96 -7%
1957 194 0.000046167 98 96 1%
1958 170 0.000041123 81 89 -5%
1959 185 0.000044493 69 116 -25%
1960 206 0.000049593 54 152 -48%
1961 183 0.000044178 58 125 -37%
1962 178 0.00004411 61 117 -31%
1963 161 0.000040675 69 92 -14%
1964 120 0.000030867 53 67 -12%
1965 124 0.000034203 50 74 -19%
1966 115 0.000033087 59 56 3%
1967 89 0.000026216 48 41 8%
1968 117 0.000034632 70 47 20%
1969 104 0.000029925 61 43 17%
1970 123 0.000034105 82 41 33%
1971 115 0.000033505 77 38 34%
1972 97 0.000030862 62 35 28%
1973 137 0.000045411 115 22 68%
1974 249 0.000081908 213 36 71%
1975 538 0.000178181 516 22 92%
1976 2120 0.000698678 2070 50 95%
1977 2698 0.000849364 2635 63 95%
1978 3170 0.000998781 3123 47 97%
1979 3520 0.00105801 3466 54 97%
1980 4405 0.001278848 4353 52 98%
1981 5901 0.001705799 5843 58 98%
1982 8344 0.002378589 8260 84 98%
1983 8713 0.00251578 8622 91 98%
1984 8584 0.002460476 8511 73 98%
1985 7957 0.002229407 7871 86 98%
1986 7013 0.001971562 6952 61 98%
1987 6587 0.001826873 6530 57 98%
1988 6072 0.001643283 6025 47 98%
1989 5574 0.001449883 5525 49 98%
1990 5079 0.001285017 5039 40 98%
1991 4515 0.0011591 4484 31 99%
1992 4289 0.001116557 4262 27 99%
1993 3686 0.000977646 3664 22 99%
1994 3116 0.000838163 3101 15 99%
1995 2584 0.000705595 2562 22 98%
1996 2418 0.000662975 2397 21 98%
1997 2094 0.000577536 2086 8 99%
1998 1947 0.000529334 1938 9 99%
1999 1866 0.000505162 1849 17 98%
2000 1812 0.000479377 1800 12 99%
2001 1511 0.000403645 1502 9 99%
2002 1241 0.00033197 1241 100%
2003 1235 0.000324802 1229 6 99%
2004 1363 0.00035672 1354 9 99%
2005 1410 0.000366725 1398 12 98%
2006 1256 0.000317477 1248 8 99%
2007 1077 0.000269406 1067 10 98%
2008 848 0.00021574 848 100%
2009 580 0.000151826 575 5 98%
2010 492 0.000133126 492 100%
2011 441 0.000120565 435 6 97%
2012 396 0.000108275 396 100%
2013 412 0.000113011 412 100%
2014 441 0.000118984 433 8 96%
2015 337 0.000091059 328 9 95%
2016 259 0.000070597 259 100%
2017 223 0.000062357 217 6 95%
2018 174 0.00004949 174 100%
2019 144 0.000041487 144 100%
2020 124 0.000037119 124 100%
2021 155 0.00004575 148 7 91%
2022 117 0.000034583 117 100%
2023 93 0.000028087 93 100%
2024 99 0.000029743 99 100%

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