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How popular is “Louis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Louis” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Louis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Louis” 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 833 0.004134323 5 828 -99%
1881 746 0.003871544 746 -100%
1882 858 0.003873012 6 852 -99%
1883 805 0.003710601 9 796 -98%
1884 892 0.003663831 6 886 -99%
1885 814 0.003379641 5 809 -99%
1886 855 0.003348791 9 846 -98%
1887 798 0.00322565 7 791 -98%
1888 891 0.002975217 7 884 -98%
1889 846 0.002927883 9 837 -98%
1890 871 0.002889838 11 860 -97%
1891 802 0.002797613 16 786 -96%
1892 873 0.002610849 8 865 -98%
1893 828 0.002545945 12 816 -97%
1894 877 0.002589389 8 869 -98%
1895 921 0.002623782 8 913 -98%
1896 880 0.002461649 9 871 -98%
1897 840 0.002421049 9 831 -98%
1898 873 0.002288606 12 861 -97%
1899 779 0.00229635 9 770 -98%
1900 1111 0.002467474 14 1097 -97%
1901 805 0.002327855 8 797 -98%
1902 918 0.002373731 6 912 -99%
1903 906 0.002376705 17 889 -96%
1904 947 0.002347051 11 936 -98%
1905 995 0.00234713 14 981 -97%
1906 1111 0.002593062 10 1101 -98%
1907 1123 0.00241303 12 1111 -98%
1908 1332 0.002725883 15 1317 -98%
1909 1250 0.002445112 19 1231 -97%
1910 1597 0.002703522 28 1569 -96%
1911 1855 0.002879192 17 1838 -98%
1912 3613 0.003656653 22 3591 -99%
1913 4289 0.003771843 31 4258 -99%
1914 5538 0.003910067 43 5495 -98%
1915 6568 0.003584319 50 6518 -98%
1916 6848 0.003540085 31 6817 -99%
1917 6826 0.00340152 55 6771 -98%
1918 7134 0.003285875 52 7082 -99%
1919 6704 0.003176882 43 6661 -99%
1920 7025 0.003104776 59 6966 -98%
1921 7296 0.003125288 49 7247 -99%
1922 7158 0.003126917 63 7095 -98%
1923 7128 0.003095791 53 7075 -99%
1924 7099 0.002980757 57 7042 -98%
1925 6866 0.002942611 68 6798 -98%
1926 6584 0.002867715 71 6513 -98%
1927 6733 0.002902959 68 6665 -98%
1928 6360 0.002812992 63 6297 -98%
1929 6047 0.002758465 52 5995 -98%
1930 5862 0.002636635 52 5810 -98%
1931 5482 0.002605033 58 5424 -98%
1932 5189 0.002457738 56 5133 -98%
1933 4727 0.002364154 32 4695 -99%
1934 4726 0.002275599 44 4682 -98%
1935 4654 0.002226901 32 4622 -99%
1936 4455 0.002144324 36 4419 -98%
1937 4382 0.00205663 27 4355 -99%
1938 4412 0.001994058 22 4390 -99%
1939 4251 0.001929254 27 4224 -99%
1940 4356 0.001891705 32 4324 -99%
1941 4476 0.001837118 30 4446 -99%
1942 5173 0.001893611 22 5151 -99%
1943 5062 0.001793408 29 5033 -99%
1944 4699 0.001746789 21 4678 -99%
1945 4510 0.00170002 30 4480 -99%
1946 4947 0.001548208 29 4918 -99%
1947 5804 0.001611183 26 5778 -99%
1948 5415 0.00156842 29 5386 -99%
1949 5265 0.001510857 30 5235 -99%
1950 4974 0.001419781 27 4947 -99%
1951 5117 0.001389078 28 5089 -99%
1952 4945 0.001301999 23 4922 -99%
1953 5018 0.001302144 32 4986 -99%
1954 4866 0.001222396 18 4848 -99%
1955 4796 0.001194497 19 4777 -99%
1956 4938 0.001197661 27 4911 -99%
1957 4723 0.00112395 28 4695 -99%
1958 4466 0.001080335 23 4443 -99%
1959 4342 0.001044254 29 4313 -99%
1960 4150 0.000999082 25 4125 -99%
1961 3982 0.000961301 19 3963 -99%
1962 3616 0.000896076 21 3595 -99%
1963 3635 0.000918347 15 3620 -99%
1964 3602 0.000926534 15 3587 -99%
1965 3287 0.000906646 18 3269 -99%
1966 3016 0.00086775 24 2992 -98%
1967 2916 0.000858936 21 2895 -99%
1968 2737 0.000810144 28 2709 -98%
1969 2647 0.000761656 24 2623 -98%
1970 2664 0.000738663 22 2642 -98%
1971 2531 0.000737395 18 2513 -99%
1972 2123 0.000675471 21 2102 -98%
1973 1918 0.000635755 12 1906 -99%
1974 1950 0.000641448 17 1933 -98%
1975 1825 0.000604426 13 1812 -99%
1976 1805 0.000594865 23 1782 -97%
1977 1882 0.000592477 17 1865 -98%
1978 1773 0.000558624 20 1753 -98%
1979 1852 0.000556658 13 1839 -99%
1980 1807 0.000524604 20 1787 -98%
1981 1828 0.000528419 23 1805 -97%
1982 1711 0.000487748 17 1694 -98%
1983 1779 0.000513666 16 1763 -98%
1984 1727 0.000495019 16 1711 -98%
1985 1704 0.00047743 19 1685 -98%
1986 1710 0.000480732 24 1686 -97%
1987 1692 0.000469268 9 1683 -99%
1988 1723 0.0004663 16 1707 -98%
1989 1851 0.000481474 17 1834 -98%
1990 1835 0.000464266 15 1820 -98%
1991 1730 0.000444129 5 1725 -99%
1992 1624 0.000422777 5 1619 -99%
1993 1589 0.000421454 7 1582 -99%
1994 1421 0.00038223 10 1411 -99%
1995 1369 0.000373824 9 1360 -99%
1996 1290 0.000353696 7 1283 -99%
1997 1311 0.00036158 1311 -100%
1998 1181 0.00032108 1181 -100%
1999 1143 0.000309432 1143 -100%
2000 1140 0.000301595 5 1135 -99%
2001 1096 0.000292783 1096 -100%
2002 1148 0.000307092 5 1143 -99%
2003 1103 0.000290086 1103 -100%
2004 1050 0.000274803 1050 -100%
2005 1002 0.000260609 1002 -100%
2006 1001 0.000253021 1001 -100%
2007 937 0.000234386 937 -100%
2008 909 0.000231259 909 -100%
2009 885 0.000231665 885 -100%
2010 921 0.000249206 921 -100%
2011 921 0.000251791 921 -100%
2012 1056 0.000288732 1056 -100%
2013 1070 0.000293499 1070 -100%
2014 1229 0.000331591 1229 -100%
2015 1215 0.000328297 5 1210 -99%
2016 1242 0.00033854 1242 -100%
2017 1302 0.000364074 1302 -100%
2018 1387 0.000394494 1387 -100%
2019 1480 0.000426398 5 1475 -99%
2020 1340 0.000401128 6 1334 -99%
2021 1418 0.000418542 1418 -100%
2022 1447 0.00042771 5 1442 -99%
2023 1482 0.000447572 5 1477 -99%
2024 1503 0.000451555 1503 -100%

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