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How popular is “Maggie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Maggie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Maggie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Maggie” 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 582 0.002888567 582 100%
1881 532 0.00276094 532 100%
1882 627 0.002830278 627 100%
1883 663 0.00305606 663 100%
1884 749 0.003076468 749 100%
1885 716 0.002972755 716 100%
1886 756 0.002961037 756 100%
1887 740 0.002991204 740 100%
1888 882 0.002945164 882 100%
1889 825 0.002855205 825 100%
1890 901 0.002989373 891 10 98%
1891 849 0.002961562 841 8 98%
1892 888 0.002655709 883 5 99%
1893 886 0.002724285 886 100%
1894 895 0.002642534 895 100%
1895 890 0.002535468 890 100%
1896 871 0.002436473 871 100%
1897 760 0.002190473 760 100%
1898 883 0.002314821 876 7 98%
1899 814 0.002399524 814 100%
1900 1050 0.002331996 1045 5 99%
1901 746 0.002157242 746 100%
1902 853 0.002205656 853 100%
1903 780 0.00204617 780 100%
1904 805 0.001995118 805 100%
1905 815 0.001922523 809 6 99%
1906 849 0.001981557 839 10 98%
1907 846 0.00181783 846 100%
1908 772 0.001579866 772 100%
1909 794 0.001553135 794 100%
1910 945 0.001599767 940 5 99%
1911 822 0.001275847 822 100%
1912 1018 0.0010303 1013 5 99%
1913 1025 0.000901408 1019 6 99%
1914 1055 0.000744876 1055 100%
1915 1269 0.000692525 1269 100%
1916 1277 0.000660147 1277 100%
1917 1268 0.000631867 1268 100%
1918 1406 0.000647595 1394 12 98%
1919 1440 0.000682385 1428 12 98%
1920 1306 0.000577201 1299 7 99%
1921 1310 0.000561147 1300 10 98%
1922 1319 0.000576195 1313 6 99%
1923 1253 0.000544196 1248 5 99%
1924 1270 0.000533253 1259 11 98%
1925 1223 0.00052415 1215 8 99%
1926 1098 0.000478243 1092 6 99%
1927 1097 0.000472976 1090 7 99%
1928 1029 0.000455121 1020 9 98%
1929 870 0.000396869 859 11 97%
1930 803 0.000361177 794 9 98%
1931 750 0.000356398 742 8 98%
1932 742 0.000351444 734 8 98%
1933 685 0.000342595 677 8 98%
1934 735 0.000353907 729 6 98%
1935 686 0.000328245 686 100%
1936 667 0.000321047 662 5 99%
1937 640 0.000300375 634 6 98%
1938 587 0.000265302 580 7 98%
1939 575 0.000260955 567 8 97%
1940 512 0.000222349 512 100%
1941 545 0.000223688 539 6 98%
1942 551 0.000201697 546 5 98%
1943 566 0.000200527 566 100%
1944 516 0.000191816 516 100%
1945 440 0.000165856 440 100%
1946 469 0.000146778 469 100%
1947 528 0.000146572 528 100%
1948 483 0.000139898 483 100%
1949 420 0.000120524 420 100%
1950 444 0.000126736 444 100%
1951 387 0.000105056 387 100%
1952 407 0.000107162 407 100%
1953 336 0.00008719 336 100%
1954 346 0.000086919 346 100%
1955 348 0.000086673 348 100%
1956 287 0.000069609 287 100%
1957 296 0.00007044 296 100%
1958 305 0.00007378 305 100%
1959 346 0.000083213 346 100%
1960 325 0.000078241 325 100%
1961 308 0.000074355 308 100%
1962 267 0.000066165 267 100%
1963 273 0.000068971 273 100%
1964 245 0.000063021 245 100%
1965 175 0.00004827 175 100%
1966 178 0.000051213 178 100%
1967 211 0.000062152 211 100%
1968 175 0.000051799 175 100%
1969 170 0.000048916 170 100%
1970 172 0.000047691 172 100%
1971 212 0.000061765 212 100%
1972 236 0.000075088 236 100%
1973 341 0.00011303 341 100%
1974 353 0.000116118 353 100%
1975 409 0.000135458 409 100%
1976 404 0.000133144 404 100%
1977 410 0.000129073 410 100%
1978 342 0.000107755 342 100%
1979 469 0.000140968 469 100%
1980 460 0.000133546 460 100%
1981 487 0.000140777 487 100%
1982 602 0.00017161 602 100%
1983 738 0.000213089 738 100%
1984 843 0.000241633 843 100%
1985 945 0.000264772 945 100%
1986 828 0.000232775 828 100%
1987 883 0.000244896 877 6 99%
1988 888 0.000240322 888 100%
1989 840 0.000218497 840 100%
1990 958 0.00024238 958 100%
1991 937 0.000240548 937 100%
1992 1040 0.000270744 1040 100%
1993 991 0.000262845 984 7 99%
1994 1225 0.000329509 1225 100%
1995 1137 0.000310473 1137 100%
1996 1103 0.000302424 1103 100%
1997 1054 0.000290699 1054 100%
1998 1238 0.000336577 1238 100%
1999 1423 0.000385233 1423 100%
2000 1614 0.000426995 1614 100%
2001 1819 0.000485923 1819 100%
2002 1697 0.000453951 1697 100%
2003 1718 0.00045183 1718 100%
2004 1643 0.000430001 1631 12 99%
2005 1663 0.000432527 1658 5 99%
2006 1858 0.000469644 1853 5 99%
2007 1874 0.000468772 1874 100%
2008 1607 0.000408837 1607 100%
2009 1426 0.000373281 1426 100%
2010 1409 0.00038125 1409 100%
2011 1389 0.000379737 1389 100%
2012 1308 0.000357634 1308 100%
2013 1385 0.000379903 1385 100%
2014 1355 0.000365586 1355 100%
2015 1338 0.000361532 1338 100%
2016 1324 0.000360891 1324 100%
2017 1287 0.00035988 1287 100%
2018 1128 0.000320829 1128 100%
2019 1135 0.000327001 1135 100%
2020 1090 0.000326291 1090 100%
2021 1121 0.000330879 1121 100%
2022 1074 0.000317457 1074 100%
2023 976 0.000294758 976 100%
2024 1051 0.000315758 1051 100%

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