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How popular is “Lyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lyn” 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
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 15 0.000008186 9 6 20%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 16 0.000007973 10 6 25%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 16 0.000006854 6 10 -25%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 100%
1926 19 0.000008276 13 6 37%
1927 20 0.000008623 13 7 30%
1928 20 0.000008846 14 6 40%
1929 15 0.000006843 15 100%
1930 23 0.000010345 14 9 22%
1931 35 0.000016632 26 9 49%
1932 26 0.000012315 18 8 38%
1933 28 0.000014004 18 10 29%
1934 46 0.000022149 28 18 22%
1935 30 0.000014355 20 10 33%
1936 42 0.000020216 23 19 10%
1937 52 0.000024405 32 20 23%
1938 53 0.000023954 35 18 32%
1939 78 0.000035399 52 26 33%
1940 86 0.000037348 59 27 37%
1941 96 0.000039402 60 36 25%
1942 104 0.00003807 77 27 48%
1943 133 0.00004712 104 29 56%
1944 162 0.000060221 125 37 54%
1945 166 0.000062573 138 28 66%
1946 254 0.000079492 204 50 61%
1947 284 0.000078838 225 59 58%
1948 244 0.000070673 200 44 64%
1949 237 0.00006801 195 42 65%
1950 243 0.000069362 182 61 50%
1951 266 0.000072209 223 43 68%
1952 290 0.000076356 245 45 69%
1953 312 0.000080962 261 51 67%
1954 330 0.0000829 274 56 66%
1955 304 0.000075715 268 36 76%
1956 318 0.000077128 277 41 74%
1957 315 0.000074962 280 35 78%
1958 265 0.000064104 238 27 80%
1959 244 0.000058682 200 44 64%
1960 250 0.000060186 216 34 73%
1961 248 0.00005987 214 34 73%
1962 302 0.000074838 279 23 85%
1963 230 0.000058107 198 32 72%
1964 236 0.000060706 201 35 70%
1965 186 0.000051304 161 25 73%
1966 153 0.00004402 131 22 71%
1967 165 0.000048602 145 20 76%
1968 171 0.000050615 122 49 43%
1969 148 0.000042586 120 28 62%
1970 131 0.000036323 106 25 62%
1971 142 0.000041371 111 31 56%
1972 95 0.000030226 81 14 71%
1973 98 0.000032484 81 17 65%
1974 70 0.000023026 60 10 71%
1975 83 0.000027489 71 12 71%
1976 60 0.000019774 51 9 70%
1977 57 0.000017944 48 9 68%
1978 48 0.000015123 40 8 67%
1979 61 0.000018335 50 11 64%
1980 45 0.000013064 37 8 64%
1981 46 0.000013297 39 7 70%
1982 42 0.000011973 32 10 52%
1983 34 0.000009817 29 5 71%
1984 26 0.000007453 21 5 62%
1985 26 0.000007285 18 8 38%
1986 14 0.000003936 14 100%
1987 30 0.00000832 25 5 67%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 100%
1989 25 0.000006503 19 6 52%
1990 31 0.000007843 24 7 55%
1991 13 0.000003337 13 100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 100%
1993 18 0.000004774 13 5 44%
1994 21 0.000005649 14 7 33%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 100%
1998 15 0.000004078 15 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 100%
2016 8 0.000002181 8 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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