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How popular is “Lois” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lois” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lois” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lois” 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
1880 53 0.000263048 53 100%
1881 53 0.000275056 53 100%
1882 64 0.000288896 64 100%
1883 76 0.000350318 76 100%
1884 84 0.000345024 84 100%
1885 105 0.000435949 105 100%
1886 116 0.000454339 116 100%
1887 129 0.00052144 129 100%
1888 120 0.000400703 120 100%
1889 154 0.000532972 154 100%
1890 175 0.000580622 175 100%
1891 206 0.000718589 206 100%
1892 247 0.000738694 242 5 96%
1893 260 0.000799451 260 100%
1894 315 0.000930054 308 7 96%
1895 311 0.000885989 311 100%
1896 388 0.001085363 388 100%
1897 463 0.001334459 457 6 97%
1898 474 0.001242611 466 8 97%
1899 423 0.001246927 415 8 96%
1900 587 0.001303697 577 10 97%
1901 494 0.001428522 488 6 98%
1902 601 0.001554044 594 7 98%
1903 672 0.001762854 664 8 98%
1904 735 0.001821629 727 8 98%
1905 771 0.001818731 763 8 98%
1906 815 0.001902201 799 16 96%
1907 912 0.001959647 899 13 97%
1908 1039 0.002126271 1023 16 97%
1909 1179 0.00230623 1157 22 96%
1910 1286 0.002177038 1271 15 98%
1911 1519 0.002357678 1508 11 99%
1912 2176 0.002202291 2146 30 97%
1913 2607 0.002292654 2560 47 96%
1914 3490 0.002464091 3432 58 97%
1915 4842 0.002642399 4775 67 97%
1916 5221 0.002699004 5149 72 97%
1917 5544 0.002762676 5485 59 98%
1918 5939 0.002735466 5877 62 98%
1919 6052 0.002867913 5976 76 97%
1920 6616 0.002924014 6560 56 98%
1921 6973 0.002986929 6899 74 98%
1922 7007 0.003060953 6946 61 98%
1923 7889 0.003426304 7814 75 98%
1924 9372 0.003935153 9299 73 98%
1925 9640 0.004131484 9573 67 99%
1926 9873 0.004300265 9817 56 99%
1927 10587 0.004564625 10505 82 98%
1928 10501 0.004644533 10425 76 99%
1929 10372 0.004731404 10295 77 99%
1930 10201 0.00458825 10114 87 98%
1931 9426 0.004479212 9348 78 98%
1932 9607 0.004550296 9519 88 98%
1933 8731 0.004366708 8655 76 98%
1934 8452 0.004069692 8387 65 98%
1935 8046 0.003849945 7989 57 99%
1936 7271 0.003499748 7232 39 99%
1937 6976 0.003274088 6932 44 99%
1938 6555 0.002962613 6503 52 98%
1939 6086 0.002762042 6034 52 98%
1940 6161 0.002675572 6124 37 99%
1941 6144 0.002521727 6106 38 99%
1942 6458 0.002363994 6406 52 98%
1943 6168 0.002185251 6132 36 99%
1944 5562 0.002067597 5529 33 99%
1945 5169 0.001948426 5148 21 99%
1946 5719 0.001789812 5700 19 99%
1947 5740 0.001593417 5717 23 99%
1948 5085 0.001472838 5077 8 100%
1949 4936 0.001416447 4915 21 99%
1950 4521 0.001290476 4504 17 99%
1951 4545 0.001233801 4533 12 99%
1952 4377 0.001152447 4362 15 99%
1953 4240 0.001100257 4220 20 99%
1954 3974 0.000998315 3952 22 99%
1955 3431 0.000854528 3419 12 99%
1956 3236 0.000784858 3225 11 99%
1957 2895 0.000688934 2876 19 99%
1958 2632 0.000636686 2625 7 99%
1959 2497 0.00060053 2485 12 99%
1960 2281 0.000549134 2269 12 99%
1961 2110 0.000509379 2102 8 99%
1962 1794 0.000444569 1783 11 99%
1963 1591 0.00040195 1581 10 99%
1964 1422 0.000365778 1409 13 98%
1965 1211 0.000334028 1204 7 99%
1966 928 0.000267 918 10 98%
1967 760 0.000223865 755 5 99%
1968 676 0.000200094 668 8 98%
1969 572 0.000164589 565 7 98%
1970 526 0.000145847 517 9 97%
1971 470 0.000136932 460 10 96%
1972 348 0.000110722 343 5 97%
1973 319 0.000105738 311 8 95%
1974 289 0.000095066 284 5 97%
1975 222 0.000073525 222 100%
1976 199 0.000065583 189 10 90%
1977 183 0.000057611 183 100%
1978 208 0.000065535 203 5 95%
1979 174 0.000052299 174 100%
1980 158 0.00004587 153 5 94%
1981 188 0.000054345 188 100%
1982 175 0.000049887 175 100%
1983 154 0.000044466 149 5 94%
1984 135 0.000038696 135 100%
1985 129 0.000036143 129 100%
1986 128 0.000035985 123 5 92%
1987 123 0.000034113 110 13 79%
1988 128 0.000034641 120 8 88%
1989 123 0.000031994 117 6 90%
1990 101 0.000025554 93 8 84%
1991 115 0.000029523 109 6 90%
1992 91 0.00002369 85 6 87%
1993 91 0.000024136 91 100%
1994 96 0.000025823 96 100%
1995 98 0.00002676 98 100%
1996 94 0.000025773 94 100%
1997 100 0.000027581 100 100%
1998 88 0.000023925 88 100%
1999 76 0.000020575 76 100%
2000 84 0.000022223 78 6 86%
2001 84 0.00002244 84 100%
2002 85 0.000022738 85 100%
2003 80 0.00002104 73 7 82%
2004 64 0.00001675 64 100%
2005 65 0.000016906 65 100%
2006 92 0.000023255 87 5 89%
2007 82 0.000020512 82 100%
2008 85 0.000021625 85 100%
2009 80 0.000020941 80 100%
2010 70 0.000018941 70 100%
2011 72 0.000019684 72 100%
2012 94 0.000025702 94 100%
2013 78 0.000021395 78 100%
2014 101 0.00002725 101 100%
2015 109 0.000029452 109 100%
2016 119 0.000032437 119 100%
2017 134 0.00003747 134 100%
2018 122 0.0000347 122 100%
2019 124 0.000035725 124 100%
2020 106 0.000031731 106 100%
2021 126 0.000037191 120 6 90%
2022 124 0.000036652 124 100%
2023 132 0.000039865 132 100%
2024 120 0.000036052 120 100%

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