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How popular is “Linville” in the USA?

Number of people named “Linville” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Linville” by birth year

This chart shows how “Linville” 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
1916 8 0.000004136 8 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 9 0.000003978 9 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 13 0.000005572 13 -100%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 -100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 -100%
1928 11 0.000004865 11 -100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 -100%
1930 10 0.000004498 10 -100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 -100%
1933 12 0.000006002 12 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 15 0.000006779 15 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1941 12 0.000004925 12 -100%
1942 19 0.000006955 19 -100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 -100%
1945 15 0.000005654 15 -100%
1946 13 0.000004068 13 -100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1955 13 0.000003238 13 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%

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