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How popular is “Linn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Linn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Linn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Linn” 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
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1913 14 0.000012312 14 -100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 11 0.000006003 11 -100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 -100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 -100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 -100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 -100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 24 0.000010077 24 -100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 -100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 -100%
1927 19 0.000008192 19 -100%
1928 22 0.00000973 22 -100%
1929 18 0.000008211 18 -100%
1930 22 0.000009895 5 17 -55%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 -100%
1932 12 0.000005684 5 7 -17%
1933 17 0.000008502 17 -100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 -100%
1935 6 0.000002871 6 -100%
1936 13 0.000006257 13 -100%
1937 23 0.000010795 23 -100%
1938 22 0.000009943 22 -100%
1939 34 0.00001543 8 26 -53%
1940 34 0.000014765 5 29 -71%
1941 37 0.000015186 8 29 -57%
1942 51 0.000018669 15 36 -41%
1943 40 0.000014172 13 27 -35%
1944 38 0.000014126 9 29 -53%
1945 56 0.000021109 15 41 -46%
1946 60 0.000018778 18 42 -40%
1947 68 0.000018877 18 50 -47%
1948 67 0.000019406 32 35 -4%
1949 72 0.000020661 29 43 -19%
1950 59 0.000016841 24 35 -19%
1951 61 0.000016559 17 44 -44%
1952 71 0.000018694 35 36 -1%
1953 64 0.000016608 27 37 -16%
1954 60 0.000015073 33 27 10%
1955 67 0.000016687 35 32 4%
1956 84 0.000020373 50 34 19%
1957 51 0.000012137 21 30 -18%
1958 60 0.000014514 27 33 -10%
1959 67 0.000016114 36 31 7%
1960 75 0.000018056 32 43 -15%
1961 49 0.000011829 29 20 18%
1962 40 0.000009912 22 18 10%
1963 40 0.000010106 22 18 10%
1964 33 0.000008489 17 16 3%
1965 31 0.000008551 20 11 29%
1966 32 0.000009207 19 13 19%
1967 21 0.000006186 11 10 5%
1968 25 0.0000074 11 14 -12%
1969 32 0.000009208 15 17 -6%
1970 27 0.000007486 13 14 -4%
1971 20 0.000005827 11 9 10%
1972 17 0.000005409 5 12 -41%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 -100%
1974 17 0.000005592 5 12 -41%
1975 14 0.000004637 7 7 0%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 100%
1977 19 0.000005981 12 7 26%
1978 18 0.000005671 10 8 11%
1979 16 0.000004809 9 7 13%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1982 18 0.000005131 11 7 22%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 13 0.000003726 7 6 8%
1985 14 0.000003923 7 7 0%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%

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