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How popular is “Loyal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Loyal” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Loyal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Loyal” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1890 13 0.000043132 13 -100%
1891 11 0.000038371 11 -100%
1892 11 0.000032897 11 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1894 11 0.000032478 11 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 -100%
1901 10 0.000028917 10 -100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 -100%
1903 14 0.000036726 14 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 -100%
1906 17 0.000039678 17 -100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1909 17 0.000033254 17 -100%
1910 21 0.00003555 21 -100%
1911 13 0.000020178 13 -100%
1912 44 0.000044532 44 -100%
1913 45 0.000039574 45 -100%
1914 71 0.000050129 71 -100%
1915 68 0.000037109 68 -100%
1916 84 0.000043424 7 77 -83%
1917 74 0.000036876 74 -100%
1918 115 0.000052968 9 106 -84%
1919 102 0.000048336 7 95 -86%
1920 94 0.000041544 94 -100%
1921 93 0.000039837 8 85 -83%
1922 85 0.000037132 85 -100%
1923 111 0.000048209 6 105 -89%
1924 96 0.000040309 7 89 -85%
1925 98 0.000042001 98 -100%
1926 80 0.000034845 6 74 -85%
1927 75 0.000032337 75 -100%
1928 78 0.000034499 78 -100%
1929 68 0.00003102 68 -100%
1930 62 0.000027887 62 -100%
1931 85 0.000040392 85 -100%
1932 77 0.000036471 77 -100%
1933 60 0.000030008 60 -100%
1934 56 0.000026964 5 51 -82%
1935 45 0.000021532 45 -100%
1936 64 0.000030805 64 -100%
1937 48 0.000022528 48 -100%
1938 52 0.000023502 52 -100%
1939 50 0.000022692 50 -100%
1940 45 0.000019542 45 -100%
1941 54 0.000022164 54 -100%
1942 55 0.000020133 55 -100%
1943 67 0.000023737 67 -100%
1944 50 0.000018587 50 -100%
1945 57 0.000021486 57 -100%
1946 47 0.000014709 47 -100%
1947 52 0.000014435 52 -100%
1948 50 0.000014482 50 -100%
1949 25 0.000007174 25 -100%
1950 41 0.000011703 41 -100%
1951 23 0.000006244 23 -100%
1952 28 0.000007372 28 -100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 -100%
1954 25 0.00000628 25 -100%
1955 25 0.000006227 25 -100%
1956 22 0.000005336 22 -100%
1957 25 0.000005949 25 -100%
1958 20 0.000004838 20 -100%
1959 30 0.000007215 30 -100%
1960 29 0.000006982 29 -100%
1961 19 0.000004587 19 -100%
1962 26 0.000006443 26 -100%
1963 30 0.000007579 30 -100%
1964 20 0.000005145 20 -100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1966 18 0.000005179 18 -100%
1967 24 0.000007069 24 -100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 -100%
1969 15 0.000004316 15 -100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 -100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 -100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 -100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 -100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2004 14 0.000003664 14 -100%
2005 17 0.000004422 17 -100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 -100%
2007 22 0.000005503 22 -100%
2008 26 0.000006615 5 21 -62%
2009 39 0.000010209 11 28 -44%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 -100%
2011 44 0.000012029 7 37 -68%
2012 51 0.000013944 8 43 -69%
2013 61 0.000016732 17 44 -44%
2014 91 0.000024552 29 62 -36%
2015 98 0.00002648 27 71 -45%
2016 85 0.000023169 28 57 -34%
2017 107 0.00002992 35 72 -35%
2018 92 0.000026167 21 71 -54%
2019 129 0.000037166 23 106 -64%
2020 230 0.00006885 40 190 -65%
2021 394 0.000116295 58 336 -71%
2022 416 0.000122963 39 377 -81%
2023 396 0.000119594 40 356 -80%
2024 309 0.000092835 35 274 -77%

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