Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Loan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Loan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Loan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Loan” 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
1976 14 0.000004614 14 100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 100%
1980 32 0.00000929 32 100%
1981 27 0.000007805 27 100%
1982 41 0.000011688 41 100%
1983 26 0.000007507 26 100%
1984 39 0.000011179 39 100%
1985 29 0.000008125 29 100%
1986 22 0.000006185 22 100%
1987 22 0.000006102 22 100%
1988 16 0.00000433 16 100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 100%
1991 20 0.000005134 20 100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 100%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%
2024 13 0.000003906 13 -100%

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