How popular is “Magnolia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Magnolia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Magnolia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Magnolia” 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	Bias toward female
1880	8	0.000039705	8	100%
1881	12	0.000062277	12	100%
1882	7	0.000031598	7	100%
1883	8	0.000036876	8	100%
1884	8	0.000032859	8	100%
1885	6	0.000024911	6	100%
1886	15	0.000058751	15	100%
1887	10	0.000040422	10	100%
1888	14	0.000046749	14	100%
1889	17	0.000058835	17	100%
1890	9	0.000029861	9	100%
1891	15	0.000052324	15	100%
1892	14	0.000041869	14	100%
1893	23	0.000070721	23	100%
1894	16	0.000047241	16	100%
1895	31	0.000088314	31	100%
1896	25	0.000069933	25	100%
1897	28	0.000080702	28	100%
1898	25	0.000065539	25	100%
1899	21	0.000061904	21	100%
1900	43	0.000095501	43	100%
1901	19	0.000054943	19	100%
1902	48	0.000124117	48	100%
1903	46	0.000120672	46	100%
1904	42	0.000104093	42	100%
1905	47	0.000110869	47	100%
1906	43	0.000100362	43	100%
1907	41	0.000088098	41	100%
1908	73	0.000149391	73	100%
1909	77	0.000150619	77	100%
1910	85	0.000143894	85	100%
1911	73	0.000113305	73	100%
1912	104	0.000105257	104	100%
1913	89	0.000078269	89	100%
1914	115	0.000081195	115	100%
1915	120	0.000065487	120	100%
1916	131	0.000067721	131	100%
1917	102	0.000050828	102	100%
1918	146	0.000067247	146	100%
1919	136	0.000064447	136	100%
1920	127	0.000056129	127	100%
1921	151	0.000064682	151	100%
1922	150	0.000065526	150	100%
1923	127	0.000055158	127	100%
1924	121	0.000050806	121	100%
1925	125	0.000053572	125	100%
1926	87	0.000037894	87	100%
1927	117	0.000050445	117	100%
1928	100	0.000044229	100	100%
1929	76	0.000034669	76	100%
1930	94	0.00004228	94	100%
1931	69	0.000032789	69	100%
1932	77	0.000036471	77	100%
1933	85	0.000042512	85	100%
1934	53	0.00002552	53	100%
1935	81	0.000038758	81	100%
1936	57	0.000027436	57	100%
1937	51	0.000023936	51	100%
1938	56	0.00002531	56	100%
1939	48	0.000021784	48	100%
1940	77	0.000033439	77	100%
1941	47	0.000019291	47	100%
1942	53	0.000019401	53	100%
1943	45	0.000015943	45	100%
1944	43	0.000015985	43	100%
1945	48	0.000018093	48	100%
1946	51	0.000015961	51	100%
1947	47	0.000013047	47	100%
1948	45	0.000013034	45	100%
1949	43	0.000012339	43	100%
1950	43	0.000012274	43	100%
1951	42	0.000011401	42	100%
1952	31	0.000008162	31	100%
1953	47	0.000012196	47	100%
1954	25	0.00000628	25	100%
1955	27	0.000006725	27	100%
1956	29	0.000007034	29	100%
1957	24	0.000005711	24	100%
1958	25	0.000006048	25	100%
1959	10	0.000002405	10	100%
1960	12	0.000002889	12	100%
1961	19	0.000004587	19	100%
1962	18	0.000004461	18	100%
1963	19	0.0000048	19	100%
1964	19	0.000004887	19	100%
1965	19	0.000005241	19	100%
1966	11	0.000003165	11	100%
1967	15	0.000004418	15	100%
1968	11	0.000003256	11	100%
1969	10	0.000002877	10	100%
1970	8	0.000002218	8	100%
1971	9	0.000002622	9	100%
1972	13	0.000004136	13	100%
1973	22	0.000007292	22	100%
1974	11	0.000003618	11	100%
1975	17	0.00000563	17	100%
1976	14	0.000004614	14	100%
1977	17	0.000005352	17	100%
1978	24	0.000007562	24	100%
1979	14	0.000004208	14	100%
1980	17	0.000004935	17	100%
1981	14	0.000004047	14	100%
1982	22	0.000006271	22	100%
1983	12	0.000003465	12	100%
1984	16	0.000004586	16	100%
1985	7	0.000001961	7	100%
1986	18	0.00000506	18	100%
1988	10	0.000002706	10	100%
1989	15	0.000003902	15	100%
1990	15	0.000003795	15	100%
1991	20	0.000005134	20	100%
1992	19	0.000004946	19	100%
1993	28	0.000007427	28	100%
1994	29	0.000007801	29	100%
1995	25	0.000006827	25	100%
1996	34	0.000009322	34	100%
1997	30	0.000008274	30	100%
1998	38	0.000010331	38	100%
1999	33	0.000008934	33	100%
2000	72	0.000019048	72	100%
2001	75	0.000020035	75	100%
2002	66	0.000017655	66	100%
2003	58	0.000015254	58	100%
2004	66	0.000017273	66	100%
2005	74	0.000019247	74	100%
2006	100	0.000025277	100	100%
2007	116	0.000029017	116	100%
2008	141	0.000035872	141	100%
2009	141	0.000036909	141	100%
2010	166	0.000044917	166	100%
2011	192	0.000052491	192	100%
2012	221	0.000060426	221	100%
2013	259	0.000071043	259	100%
2014	336	0.000090655	336	100%
2015	450	0.000121592	450	100%
2016	618	0.000168452	618	100%
2017	815	0.000227896	815	100%
2018	1048	0.000298075	1048	100%
2019	1322	0.000380877	1322	100%
2020	1622	0.000485545	1622	100%
2021	1965	0.000579997	1965	100%
2022	1884	0.00055688	1884	100%
2023	1951	0.000589213	1951	100%
2024	2146	0.000644735	2146	100%

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