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How popular is “Lola” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lola” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lola” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lola” 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 138 0.000684918 138 100%
1881 129 0.000669476 129 100%
1882 174 0.000785436 174 100%
1883 172 0.000792824 172 100%
1884 197 0.000809164 197 100%
1885 191 0.000793012 191 100%
1886 191 0.000748093 191 100%
1887 246 0.000994373 246 100%
1888 304 0.001015113 304 100%
1889 312 0.001079787 312 100%
1890 346 0.001147972 346 100%
1891 337 0.001175555 337 100%
1892 388 0.001160377 388 100%
1893 385 0.001183803 385 100%
1894 407 0.001201689 407 100%
1895 451 0.001284827 446 5 98%
1896 455 0.001272784 450 5 98%
1897 487 0.001403632 487 100%
1898 534 0.001399903 534 100%
1899 442 0.001302935 437 5 98%
1900 584 0.001297034 584 100%
1901 501 0.001448764 493 8 97%
1902 572 0.001479057 565 7 98%
1903 547 0.001434942 547 100%
1904 624 0.001546526 624 100%
1905 624 0.001471969 624 100%
1906 616 0.001437737 616 100%
1907 639 0.001373042 639 100%
1908 623 0.001274944 623 100%
1909 634 0.001240161 634 100%
1910 685 0.00115962 685 100%
1911 718 0.001114426 712 6 98%
1912 909 0.000919983 903 6 99%
1913 971 0.000853919 965 6 99%
1914 1036 0.000731461 1031 5 99%
1915 1427 0.000778749 1420 7 99%
1916 1378 0.000712359 1372 6 99%
1917 1493 0.000743989 1493 100%
1918 1574 0.000724974 1567 7 99%
1919 1623 0.000769105 1617 6 99%
1920 1591 0.00070316 1580 11 99%
1921 1548 0.000663096 1540 8 99%
1922 1489 0.000650458 1478 11 99%
1923 1521 0.000660592 1513 8 99%
1924 1546 0.000649141 1538 8 99%
1925 1479 0.000633866 1470 9 99%
1926 1452 0.00063243 1440 12 98%
1927 1541 0.000664408 1532 9 99%
1928 1305 0.000577194 1295 10 98%
1929 1274 0.000581162 1268 6 99%
1930 1277 0.000574375 1271 6 99%
1931 1210 0.000574989 1200 10 98%
1932 1200 0.000568373 1194 6 99%
1933 1129 0.000564656 1123 6 99%
1934 1099 0.000529175 1091 8 99%
1935 957 0.000457917 951 6 99%
1936 965 0.000464483 960 5 99%
1937 871 0.000408792 866 5 99%
1938 901 0.000407218 895 6 99%
1939 847 0.000384399 840 7 98%
1940 876 0.000380425 867 9 98%
1941 842 0.000345588 835 7 98%
1942 900 0.000329451 889 11 98%
1943 831 0.000294414 825 6 99%
1944 831 0.000308913 825 6 99%
1945 689 0.000259715 689 100%
1946 700 0.000219071 700 100%
1947 710 0.000197095 710 100%
1948 663 0.000192034 663 100%
1949 620 0.000177917 620 100%
1950 630 0.000179827 630 100%
1951 651 0.000176723 651 100%
1952 617 0.000162454 617 100%
1953 534 0.00013857 534 100%
1954 556 0.000139674 556 100%
1955 632 0.000157407 632 100%
1956 520 0.000126121 520 100%
1957 483 0.000114941 483 100%
1958 434 0.000104986 434 100%
1959 485 0.000116643 485 100%
1960 412 0.000099186 412 100%
1961 398 0.000096082 398 100%
1962 340 0.000084255 340 100%
1963 326 0.000082361 326 100%
1964 337 0.000086686 337 100%
1965 278 0.00007668 278 100%
1966 229 0.000065887 229 100%
1967 186 0.000054788 186 100%
1968 186 0.000055055 186 100%
1969 172 0.000049492 172 100%
1970 170 0.000047137 170 100%
1971 181 0.000052733 181 100%
1972 154 0.000048998 154 100%
1973 159 0.000052703 159 100%
1974 154 0.000050658 154 100%
1975 152 0.000050341 152 100%
1976 200 0.000065913 200 100%
1977 132 0.000041555 132 100%
1978 152 0.000047891 152 100%
1979 136 0.000040878 136 100%
1980 150 0.000043548 150 100%
1981 105 0.000030352 105 100%
1982 109 0.000031072 109 100%
1983 83 0.000023965 83 100%
1984 67 0.000019205 67 100%
1985 68 0.000019052 68 100%
1986 67 0.000018836 67 100%
1987 74 0.000020524 74 100%
1988 73 0.000019756 73 100%
1989 57 0.000014827 57 100%
1990 70 0.00001771 70 100%
1991 47 0.000012066 47 100%
1992 51 0.000013277 51 100%
1993 31 0.000008222 31 100%
1994 40 0.000010759 40 100%
1995 45 0.000012288 45 100%
1996 40 0.000010967 40 100%
1997 68 0.000018755 68 100%
1998 63 0.000017128 63 100%
1999 72 0.000019492 72 100%
2000 145 0.000038361 145 100%
2001 182 0.000048619 182 100%
2002 321 0.000085868 321 100%
2003 436 0.000114667 436 100%
2004 556 0.000145515 556 100%
2005 843 0.000219255 843 100%
2006 1197 0.000302564 1197 100%
2007 1262 0.000315683 1262 100%
2008 1410 0.000358718 1410 100%
2009 1465 0.00038349 1465 100%
2010 1476 0.000399379 1476 100%
2011 1313 0.00035896 1313 100%
2012 1383 0.000378141 1383 100%
2013 1493 0.000409527 1493 100%
2014 1390 0.000375029 1390 100%
2015 1457 0.000393687 1457 100%
2016 1390 0.000378881 1390 100%
2017 1337 0.000373861 1337 100%
2018 1361 0.000387099 1361 100%
2019 1298 0.000373963 1298 100%
2020 1261 0.00037748 1261 100%
2021 1192 0.000351835 1192 100%
2022 1202 0.000355292 1202 100%
2023 1191 0.000359689 1191 100%
2024 1155 0.000347003 1155 100%

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