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How popular is “Linkoln” in the USA?

Number of people named “Linkoln” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Linkoln” by birth year

This chart shows how “Linkoln” 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
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 -100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 -100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 -100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 -100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 -100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 -100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 -100%
2013 31 0.000008503 31 -100%
2014 25 0.000006745 25 -100%
2015 54 0.000014591 54 -100%
2016 50 0.000013629 50 -100%
2017 65 0.000018176 65 -100%
2018 41 0.000011661 41 -100%
2019 48 0.000013829 48 -100%
2020 37 0.000011076 37 -100%
2021 46 0.000013578 46 -100%
2022 20 0.000005912 20 -100%
2023 24 0.000007248 24 -100%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 -100%

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