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How popular is “Lorain” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lorain” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lorain” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lorain” 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
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 12 0.000025785 12 100%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 100%
1912 12 0.000012145 12 100%
1913 13 0.000011432 8 5 23%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 -100%
1915 23 0.000012552 13 10 13%
1916 26 0.000013441 16 10 23%
1917 31 0.000015448 15 16 -3%
1918 46 0.000021187 32 14 39%
1919 50 0.000023694 35 15 40%
1920 45 0.000019888 31 14 38%
1921 46 0.000019704 34 12 48%
1922 46 0.000020095 33 13 43%
1923 26 0.000011292 18 8 38%
1924 46 0.000019315 33 13 43%
1925 38 0.000016286 29 9 53%
1926 42 0.000018293 33 9 57%
1927 37 0.000015953 31 6 68%
1928 41 0.000018134 36 5 76%
1929 23 0.000010492 17 6 48%
1930 19 0.000008546 19 100%
1931 29 0.000013781 24 5 66%
1932 24 0.000011367 16 8 33%
1933 25 0.000012503 14 11 12%
1934 13 0.00000626 13 100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 100%
1936 15 0.00000722 10 5 33%
1937 11 0.000005163 6 5 9%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 100%
1939 17 0.000007715 11 6 29%
1940 16 0.000006948 16 100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 100%
1942 11 0.000004027 11 100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1945 14 0.000005277 14 100%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 100%
1948 13 0.000003765 13 100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 100%
1951 14 0.0000038 14 100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 100%
1953 21 0.000005449 21 100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 100%
1955 24 0.000005977 24 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 17 0.000004046 17 100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 100%
1961 23 0.000005552 23 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 100%
1965 18 0.000004965 18 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%

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