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How popular is “Madonna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Madonna” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Madonna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Madonna” 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
1897 6 0.000017293 6 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 100%
1907 12 0.000025785 12 100%
1908 12 0.000024558 12 100%
1909 20 0.000039122 20 100%
1910 15 0.000025393 15 100%
1911 27 0.000041907 27 100%
1912 21 0.000021254 21 100%
1913 39 0.000034297 39 100%
1914 45 0.000031772 45 100%
1915 76 0.000041475 76 100%
1916 85 0.000043941 85 100%
1917 66 0.000032889 66 100%
1918 78 0.000035926 78 100%
1919 87 0.000041227 87 100%
1920 91 0.000040218 91 100%
1921 80 0.000034269 80 100%
1922 101 0.000044121 101 100%
1923 111 0.000048209 111 100%
1924 110 0.000046187 110 100%
1925 119 0.000051001 119 100%
1926 117 0.00005096 117 100%
1927 112 0.000048289 112 100%
1928 128 0.000056614 128 100%
1929 151 0.000068882 151 100%
1930 137 0.00006162 137 100%
1931 133 0.000063201 133 100%
1932 136 0.000064416 136 100%
1933 142 0.00007102 142 100%
1934 139 0.000066929 139 100%
1935 118 0.000056462 118 100%
1936 134 0.000064498 134 100%
1937 109 0.000051158 109 100%
1938 150 0.000067794 150 100%
1939 131 0.000059452 131 100%
1940 137 0.000059496 137 100%
1941 159 0.00006526 159 100%
1942 134 0.000049052 134 100%
1943 158 0.000055978 158 100%
1944 153 0.000056876 153 100%
1945 132 0.000049757 132 100%
1946 163 0.000051012 163 100%
1947 185 0.000051356 185 100%
1948 174 0.000050398 174 100%
1949 177 0.000050792 177 100%
1950 180 0.000051379 180 100%
1951 177 0.000048049 177 100%
1952 172 0.000045287 172 100%
1953 188 0.000048785 188 100%
1954 211 0.000053006 211 100%
1955 211 0.000052552 211 100%
1956 194 0.000047053 194 100%
1957 178 0.000042359 178 100%
1958 182 0.000044026 182 100%
1959 174 0.000041847 174 100%
1960 193 0.000046463 193 100%
1961 190 0.000045868 190 100%
1962 200 0.000049562 200 100%
1963 170 0.000042949 170 100%
1964 147 0.000037812 147 100%
1965 134 0.000036961 134 100%
1966 101 0.000029059 101 100%
1967 141 0.000041533 141 100%
1968 121 0.000035816 121 100%
1969 86 0.000024746 86 100%
1970 83 0.000023014 83 100%
1971 87 0.000025347 87 100%
1972 75 0.000023863 75 100%
1973 68 0.00002254 68 100%
1974 60 0.000019737 60 100%
1975 53 0.000017553 53 100%
1976 42 0.000013842 42 100%
1977 64 0.000020148 64 100%
1978 47 0.000014808 47 100%
1979 43 0.000012925 43 100%
1980 43 0.000012484 43 100%
1981 37 0.000010696 37 100%
1982 29 0.000008267 29 100%
1983 23 0.000006641 23 100%
1984 63 0.000018058 63 100%
1985 146 0.000040907 146 100%
1986 70 0.000019679 70 100%
1987 61 0.000016918 61 100%
1988 31 0.00000839 31 100%
1989 39 0.000010145 39 100%
1990 24 0.000006072 24 100%
1991 24 0.000006161 24 100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 100%
1993 12 0.000003183 12 100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 100%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 100%
1999 18 0.000004873 18 100%
2000 19 0.000005027 19 100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 100%
2009 14 0.000003665 14 100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 100%

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