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How popular is “Macaulay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Macaulay” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Macaulay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Macaulay” 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
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 26 0.000006675 10 16 -23%
1992 36 0.000009372 36 -100%
1993 23 0.0000061 23 -100%
1994 30 0.00000807 5 25 -67%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 -100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 -100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 -100%
2022 16 0.000004729 16 -100%
2023 14 0.000004228 14 -100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

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