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How popular is “Lum” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lum” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lum” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lum” 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 10 0.000049632 10 -100%
1881 7 0.000036328 7 -100%
1882 12 0.000054168 12 -100%
1883 14 0.000064532 14 -100%
1884 17 0.000069826 17 -100%
1885 7 0.000029063 7 -100%
1886 8 0.000031334 8 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 15 0.000050088 15 -100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 -100%
1890 9 0.000029861 9 -100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 -100%
1892 11 0.000032897 11 -100%
1894 10 0.000029526 10 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1901 7 0.000020242 7 -100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1909 11 0.000021517 11 -100%
1913 12 0.000010553 12 -100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 8 0.000004366 8 -100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 13 0.000005988 13 -100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 -100%
1920 17 0.000007513 17 -100%
1921 11 0.000004712 11 -100%
1922 11 0.000004805 11 -100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 -100%
1924 14 0.000005878 14 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 -100%
1928 12 0.000005308 12 -100%
1930 10 0.000004498 10 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%

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