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How popular is “Loralei” in the USA?

Number of people named “Loralei” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Loralei” by birth year

This chart shows how “Loralei” 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
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 100%
2002 24 0.00000642 24 100%
2003 42 0.000011046 42 100%
2004 52 0.000013609 52 100%
2005 53 0.000013785 53 100%
2006 57 0.000014408 57 100%
2007 75 0.000018761 75 100%
2008 57 0.000014501 57 100%
2009 81 0.000021203 81 100%
2010 98 0.000026517 98 100%
2011 109 0.000029799 109 100%
2012 82 0.000022421 82 100%
2013 90 0.000024687 90 100%
2014 86 0.000023203 86 100%
2015 83 0.000022427 83 100%
2016 65 0.000017717 65 100%
2017 67 0.000018735 67 100%
2018 78 0.000022185 78 100%
2019 70 0.000020167 70 100%
2020 61 0.00001826 61 100%
2021 71 0.000020957 71 100%
2022 73 0.000021578 73 100%
2023 52 0.000015704 52 100%
2024 57 0.000017125 57 100%

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