How popular is “London” in the USA?

Number of people named “London” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “London” by birth year

This chart shows how “London” 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
1886	5	0.000019584		5	-100%
1888	5	0.000016696		5	-100%
1900	5	0.000011105		5	-100%
1909	5	0.00000978		5	-100%
1912	5	0.00000506		5	-100%
1913	5	0.000004397		5	-100%
1915	10	0.000005457		10	-100%
1916	6	0.000003102		6	-100%
1917	15	0.000007475		15	-100%
1918	13	0.000005988		13	-100%
1919	16	0.000007582		16	-100%
1920	8	0.000003536		8	-100%
1921	6	0.00000257		6	-100%
1922	7	0.000003058		7	-100%
1923	11	0.000004777		11	-100%
1924	6	0.000002519		6	-100%
1925	12	0.000005143		12	-100%
1926	7	0.000003049		7	-100%
1927	12	0.000005174		12	-100%
1928	7	0.000003096		7	-100%
1929	8	0.000003649		8	-100%
1930	9	0.000004048		9	-100%
1933	8	0.000004001		8	-100%
1934	5	0.000002408		5	-100%
1935	6	0.000002871		6	-100%
1938	5	0.00000226		5	-100%
1939	7	0.000003177		7	-100%
1941	11	0.000004515		11	-100%
1943	7	0.00000248		7	-100%
1944	7	0.000002602		7	-100%
1945	8	0.000003016		8	-100%
1946	7	0.000002191		7	-100%
1947	8	0.000002221		8	-100%
1948	7	0.000002028		7	-100%
1949	10	0.00000287		10	-100%
1950	8	0.000002284		8	-100%
1952	11	0.000002896		11	-100%
1953	11	0.000002854		11	-100%
1954	6	0.000001507		6	-100%
1955	7	0.000001743		7	-100%
1956	6	0.000001455		6	-100%
1957	6	0.000001428		6	-100%
1958	7	0.000001693		7	-100%
1959	8	0.000001924		8	-100%
1960	7	0.000001685		7	-100%
1961	10	0.000002414		10	-100%
1962	13	0.000003222		13	-100%
1963	15	0.00000379	6	9	-20%
1964	20	0.000005145	5	15	-50%
1965	20	0.000005517	5	15	-50%
1966	39	0.000011221	11	28	-44%
1967	34	0.000010015	12	22	-29%
1968	47	0.000013912	18	29	-23%
1969	53	0.00001525	21	32	-21%
1970	43	0.000011923	20	23	-7%
1971	50	0.000014567	13	37	-48%
1972	41	0.000013045	15	26	-27%
1973	36	0.000011933	16	20	-11%
1974	28	0.000009211	14	14	0%
1975	28	0.000009273	9	19	-36%
1976	35	0.000011535	21	14	20%
1977	45	0.000014167	23	22	2%
1978	30	0.000009452	17	13	13%
1979	27	0.000008115	13	14	-4%
1980	35	0.000010161	15	20	-14%
1981	40	0.000011563	23	17	15%
1982	34	0.000009692	15	19	-12%
1983	54	0.000015592	27	27	0%
1984	58	0.000016625	25	33	-14%
1985	60	0.000016811	32	28	7%
1986	89	0.000025021	52	37	17%
1987	113	0.00003134	66	47	17%
1988	144	0.000038971	71	73	-1%
1989	181	0.000047081	86	95	-5%
1990	209	0.000052878	113	96	8%
1991	241	0.00006187	127	114	5%
1992	237	0.000061698	141	96	19%
1993	240	0.000063656	132	108	10%
1994	295	0.000079351	189	106	28%
1995	249	0.000067993	153	96	23%
1996	301	0.000082529	183	118	22%
1997	311	0.000085775	188	123	21%
1998	304	0.000082649	194	110	28%
1999	352	0.000095293	230	122	31%
2000	445	0.000117728	271	174	22%
2001	455	0.000121548	270	185	19%
2002	465	0.000124388	278	187	20%
2003	505	0.000132814	314	191	24%
2004	613	0.000160432	411	202	34%
2005	842	0.000218995	538	304	28%
2006	1310	0.000331127	944	366	44%
2007	1560	0.000390226	1196	364	53%
2008	2638	0.000671133	2160	478	64%
2009	3151	0.000824831	2631	520	67%
2010	3383	0.000915379	2872	511	70%
2011	3619	0.000989395	3168	451	75%
2012	3687	0.001008102	3202	485	74%
2013	3879	0.001064003	3462	417	78%
2014	3725	0.001005025	3289	436	77%
2015	3369	0.000910316	2921	448	73%
2016	2707	0.000737864	2356	351	74%
2017	2248	0.000628601	1973	275	76%
2018	1923	0.000546944	1648	275	71%
2019	2001	0.000576502	1728	273	73%
2020	1759	0.000526556	1496	263	70%
2021	1568	0.000462817	1357	211	73%
2022	1293	0.00038219	1071	222	66%
2023	1193	0.000360293	987	206	65%
2024	1039	0.000312153	872	167	68%

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