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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Liz” in the USA?

Number of people named “Liz” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Liz” by birth year

This chart shows how “Liz” 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
1930 6 0.000002699 6 100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 100%
1939 15 0.000006808 15 100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 100%
1941 25 0.000010261 25 100%
1942 34 0.000012446 34 100%
1943 22 0.000007794 22 100%
1944 22 0.000008178 22 100%
1945 28 0.000010554 28 100%
1946 43 0.000013457 43 100%
1947 49 0.000013602 49 100%
1948 40 0.000011586 40 100%
1949 35 0.000010044 35 100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 100%
1951 30 0.000008144 30 100%
1952 25 0.000006582 25 100%
1953 28 0.000007266 28 100%
1954 29 0.000007285 29 100%
1955 74 0.000018431 74 100%
1956 118 0.00002862 118 100%
1957 276 0.000065681 276 100%
1958 538 0.000130143 538 100%
1959 621 0.000149351 621 100%
1960 638 0.000153594 638 100%
1961 664 0.000160297 664 100%
1962 523 0.000129604 523 100%
1963 421 0.000106361 421 100%
1964 348 0.000089515 348 100%
1965 237 0.000065371 237 100%
1966 189 0.000054378 189 100%
1967 133 0.000039176 133 100%
1968 118 0.000034928 118 100%
1969 121 0.000034817 121 100%
1970 102 0.000028282 102 100%
1971 93 0.000027095 93 100%
1972 79 0.000025135 79 100%
1973 80 0.000026517 80 100%
1974 62 0.000020395 62 100%
1975 48 0.000015897 48 100%
1976 52 0.000017137 52 100%
1977 39 0.000012278 39 100%
1978 48 0.000015123 48 100%
1979 54 0.000016231 54 100%
1980 61 0.000017709 61 100%
1981 63 0.000018211 63 100%
1982 61 0.000017389 61 100%
1983 58 0.000016747 58 100%
1984 64 0.000018345 64 100%
1985 57 0.00001597 57 100%
1986 57 0.000016024 57 100%
1987 56 0.000015531 56 100%
1988 62 0.000016779 62 100%
1989 72 0.000018728 72 100%
1990 65 0.000016445 65 100%
1991 82 0.000021051 82 100%
1992 83 0.000021607 83 100%
1993 70 0.000018566 70 100%
1994 74 0.000019905 74 100%
1995 62 0.00001693 62 100%
1996 54 0.000014806 54 100%
1997 81 0.00002234 81 100%
1998 68 0.000018487 68 100%
1999 64 0.000017326 64 100%
2000 72 0.000019048 72 100%
2001 62 0.000016563 62 100%
2002 82 0.000021935 82 100%
2003 70 0.00001841 70 100%
2004 86 0.000022508 86 100%
2005 96 0.000024968 96 100%
2006 127 0.000032102 127 100%
2007 147 0.000036771 147 100%
2008 120 0.000030529 120 100%
2009 78 0.000020418 78 100%
2010 68 0.0000184 68 100%
2011 80 0.000021871 80 100%
2012 87 0.000023788 87 100%
2013 72 0.000019749 72 100%
2014 64 0.000017268 64 100%
2015 68 0.000018374 68 100%
2016 84 0.000022896 84 100%
2017 73 0.000020413 73 100%
2018 79 0.000022469 79 100%
2019 111 0.00003198 111 100%
2020 161 0.000048195 161 100%
2021 107 0.000031583 107 100%
2022 194 0.000057343 194 100%
2023 206 0.000062213 206 100%
2024 169 0.000050774 169 100%

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