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How popular is “Lovely” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lovely” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lovely” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lovely” 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
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 100%
1935 6 0.000002871 6 100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 100%
1981 16 0.000004625 16 100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 100%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 100%
1984 16 0.000004586 16 100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 100%
1986 23 0.000006466 23 100%
1987 17 0.000004715 17 100%
1988 17 0.000004601 17 100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 100%
1990 20 0.00000506 20 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 18 0.000004686 18 100%
1993 18 0.000004774 18 100%
1994 27 0.000007263 27 100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 100%
1996 27 0.000007403 27 100%
1997 25 0.000006895 25 100%
1998 34 0.000009244 34 100%
1999 35 0.000009475 35 100%
2000 36 0.000009524 36 100%
2001 30 0.000008014 30 100%
2002 39 0.000010433 39 100%
2003 32 0.000008416 32 100%
2004 35 0.00000916 35 100%
2005 45 0.000011704 45 100%
2006 40 0.000010111 40 100%
2007 43 0.000010756 43 100%
2008 46 0.000011703 46 100%
2009 87 0.000022774 87 100%
2010 84 0.000022729 84 100%
2011 56 0.00001531 56 100%
2012 82 0.000022421 82 100%
2013 71 0.000019475 71 100%
2014 82 0.000022124 82 100%
2015 69 0.000018644 69 100%
2016 61 0.000016627 61 100%
2017 72 0.000020133 72 100%
2018 73 0.000020763 73 100%
2019 91 0.000026218 91 100%
2020 71 0.000021254 71 100%
2021 77 0.000022728 77 100%
2022 95 0.00002808 95 100%
2023 103 0.000031107 103 100%
2024 92 0.00002764 92 100%

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