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How popular is “Long” in the USA?

Number of people named “Long” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Long” by birth year

This chart shows how “Long” 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
1975 11 0.000003643 11 -100%
1976 47 0.00001549 47 -100%
1977 30 0.000009444 30 -100%
1978 26 0.000008192 26 -100%
1979 32 0.000009618 32 -100%
1980 67 0.000019451 67 -100%
1981 71 0.000020524 71 -100%
1982 85 0.000024231 85 -100%
1983 80 0.000023099 80 -100%
1984 66 0.000018918 66 -100%
1985 59 0.000016531 59 -100%
1986 68 0.000019117 68 -100%
1987 55 0.000015254 55 -100%
1988 133 0.000035994 133 -100%
1989 47 0.000012225 47 -100%
1990 52 0.000013156 52 -100%
1991 48 0.000012323 48 -100%
1992 59 0.000015359 59 -100%
1993 66 0.000017505 66 -100%
1994 51 0.000013718 51 -100%
1995 53 0.000014472 53 -100%
1996 36 0.000009871 36 -100%
1997 43 0.00001186 43 -100%
1998 25 0.000006797 25 -100%
1999 37 0.000010017 37 -100%
2000 101 0.00002672 101 -100%
2001 37 0.000009884 37 -100%
2002 25 0.000006688 25 -100%
2003 31 0.000008153 31 -100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2005 21 0.000005462 21 -100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 -100%
2007 21 0.000005253 21 -100%
2008 20 0.000005088 20 -100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 -100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2012 84 0.000022967 84 -100%
2013 26 0.000007132 26 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 12 0.000003242 12 -100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 -100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 -100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 -100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 -100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 -100%
2023 10 0.00000302 10 -100%
2024 29 0.000008713 29 -100%

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