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How popular is “Lyncoln” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lyncoln” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lyncoln” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lyncoln” 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
2007 12 0.000003002 5 7 -17%
2008 16 0.000004071 5 11 -38%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 17 0.0000046 7 10 -18%
2011 26 0.000007108 7 19 -46%
2012 18 0.000004922 18 -100%
2013 31 0.000008503 13 18 -16%
2014 39 0.000010522 14 25 -28%
2015 66 0.000017833 25 41 -24%
2016 57 0.000015537 16 41 -44%
2017 59 0.000016498 20 39 -32%
2018 65 0.000018487 18 47 -45%
2019 48 0.000013829 13 35 -46%
2020 56 0.000016764 15 41 -46%
2021 51 0.000015053 17 34 -33%
2022 35 0.000010345 11 24 -37%
2023 18 0.000005436 5 13 -44%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 -100%

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