How popular is “Lynn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lynn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lynn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lynn” 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	35	0.000173711	5	30	-71%
1881	21	0.000108984		21	-100%
1882	27	0.000121878		27	-100%
1883	33	0.000152112		33	-100%
1884	27	0.000110901		27	-100%
1885	30	0.000124557	5	25	-67%
1886	30	0.000117501	5	25	-67%
1887	23	0.00009297		23	-100%
1888	17	0.000056766		17	-100%
1889	44	0.000152278		44	-100%
1890	27	0.000089582		27	-100%
1891	39	0.000136044	5	34	-74%
1892	39	0.000116636		39	-100%
1893	46	0.000141441	11	35	-52%
1894	28	0.000082671		28	-100%
1895	46	0.000131047		46	-100%
1896	43	0.000120285	6	37	-72%
1897	34	0.000097995	7	27	-59%
1898	52	0.00013632	8	44	-69%
1899	40	0.000117913	9	31	-55%
1900	49	0.000108826	8	41	-67%
1901	33	0.000095428	6	27	-64%
1902	48	0.000124117	9	39	-63%
1903	43	0.000112802	9	34	-58%
1904	51	0.000126399	11	40	-57%
1905	42	0.000099075	14	28	-33%
1906	54	0.000126035	14	40	-48%
1907	62	0.000133222	14	48	-55%
1908	68	0.000139159	18	50	-47%
1909	85	0.000166268	18	67	-58%
1910	86	0.000145587	23	63	-47%
1911	91	0.000141243	25	66	-45%
1912	184	0.000186223	28	156	-70%
1913	224	0.000196991	32	192	-71%
1914	277	0.000195574	45	232	-68%
1915	349	0.000190458	44	305	-75%
1916	376	0.000194374	56	320	-70%
1917	403	0.000200822	58	345	-71%
1918	431	0.000198516	69	362	-68%
1919	409	0.000193816	64	345	-69%
1920	474	0.00020949	62	412	-74%
1921	425	0.000182051	59	366	-72%
1922	460	0.000200947	77	383	-67%
1923	462	0.000200653	71	391	-69%
1924	489	0.000205323	80	409	-67%
1925	535	0.000229289	100	435	-63%
1926	462	0.000201228	92	370	-60%
1927	575	0.000247913	128	447	-55%
1928	583	0.000257858	115	468	-61%
1929	527	0.000240402	112	415	-57%
1930	615	0.000276617	157	458	-49%
1931	603	0.000286544	178	425	-41%
1932	740	0.000350496	244	496	-34%
1933	816	0.000408113	289	527	-29%
1934	869	0.000418429	305	564	-30%
1935	894	0.000427772	339	555	-24%
1936	998	0.000480367	384	614	-23%
1937	1201	0.000563672	498	703	-17%
1938	1532	0.000692406	722	810	-6%
1939	1756	0.000796935	871	885	-1%
1940	2002	0.00086942	957	1045	-4%
1941	2610	0.001071242	1259	1351	-4%
1942	3143	0.001150516	1749	1394	11%
1943	3507	0.00124249	2065	1442	18%
1944	3550	0.001319664	2260	1290	27%
1945	3948	0.001488177	2730	1218	38%
1946	5414	0.00169436	3884	1530	43%
1947	6775	0.001880731	4994	1781	47%
1948	6181	0.001790288	4609	1572	49%
1949	6460	0.001853778	4880	1580	51%
1950	6642	0.001895895	5019	1623	51%
1951	7298	0.001981139	5628	1670	54%
1952	7409	0.001950761	5818	1591	57%
1953	7552	0.001959704	5997	1555	59%
1954	8195	0.002058679	6780	1415	65%
1955	8687	0.002163593	7354	1333	69%
1956	8989	0.002180189	7736	1253	72%
1957	8716	0.00207418	7442	1274	71%
1958	8267	0.001999805	7215	1052	75%
1959	8066	0.001939879	7058	1008	75%
1960	7811	0.00188044	6851	960	75%
1961	7331	0.001769789	6440	891	76%
1962	7050	0.001747051	6217	833	76%
1963	6543	0.001653024	5826	717	78%
1964	6321	0.001625937	5675	646	80%
1965	5182	0.00142934	4668	514	80%
1966	4791	0.001378445	4306	485	80%
1967	4635	0.001365284	4196	439	81%
1968	4558	0.001349154	4103	455	80%
1969	4080	0.001173992	3648	432	79%
1970	3645	0.001010671	3264	381	79%
1971	3012	0.000877532	2671	341	77%
1972	2542	0.000808783	2251	291	77%
1973	2200	0.000729228	1933	267	76%
1974	1868	0.000614474	1644	224	76%
1975	1616	0.000535207	1424	192	76%
1976	1329	0.000437992	1147	182	73%
1977	1249	0.000393201	1099	150	76%
1978	1259	0.000396677	1107	152	76%
1979	1213	0.000364593	1070	143	76%
1980	1186	0.000344316	1016	170	71%
1981	1123	0.000324625	953	170	70%
1982	957	0.000272808	834	123	74%
1983	890	0.000256977	788	102	77%
1984	809	0.000231888	706	103	75%
1985	713	0.00019977	603	110	69%
1986	603	0.000169521	514	89	70%
1987	559	0.000155036	475	84	70%
1988	552	0.000149389	469	83	70%
1989	506	0.000131618	420	86	66%
1990	474	0.000119925	397	77	68%
1991	405	0.000103972	339	66	67%
1992	345	0.000089814	287	58	66%
1993	321	0.00008514	264	57	64%
1994	312	0.000083924	260	52	67%
1995	256	0.000069904	211	45	65%
1996	240	0.000065804	209	31	74%
1997	217	0.00005985	181	36	67%
1998	202	0.000054918	168	34	66%
1999	204	0.000055227	164	40	61%
2000	218	0.000057673	169	49	55%
2001	180	0.000048085	153	27	70%
2002	175	0.000046813	138	37	58%
2003	171	0.000044973	142	29	66%
2004	148	0.000038734	126	22	70%
2005	173	0.000044995	151	22	75%
2006	136	0.000034377	119	17	75%
2007	155	0.000038772	137	18	77%
2008	129	0.000032819	107	22	66%
2009	113	0.00002958	94	19	66%
2010	130	0.000035176	111	19	71%
2011	140	0.000038274	110	30	57%
2012	120	0.00003281	92	28	53%
2013	113	0.000030996	92	21	63%
2014	104	0.00002806	88	16	69%
2015	100	0.00002702	84	16	68%
2016	103	0.000028075	93	10	81%
2017	110	0.000030759	90	20	64%
2018	87	0.000024745	71	16	63%
2019	115	0.000033132	96	19	67%
2020	91	0.000027241	79	12	74%
2021	91	0.00002686	68	23	49%
2022	67	0.000019804	54	13	61%
2023	65	0.00001963	51	14	57%
2024	75	0.000022533	60	15	60%

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