How popular is “Magnus” in the USA?

Number of people named “Magnus” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Magnus” by birth year

This chart shows how “Magnus” 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	Males	Bias toward female
1890	5	0.000016589	5	-100%
1891	5	0.000017441	5	-100%
1893	5	0.000015374	5	-100%
1894	6	0.000017715	6	-100%
1901	5	0.000014459	5	-100%
1902	6	0.000015515	6	-100%
1905	6	0.000014154	6	-100%
1908	5	0.000010232	5	-100%
1909	7	0.000013693	7	-100%
1911	6	0.000009313	6	-100%
1913	15	0.000013191	15	-100%
1914	19	0.000013415	19	-100%
1915	17	0.000009277	17	-100%
1916	16	0.000008271	16	-100%
1917	21	0.000010465	21	-100%
1918	17	0.00000783	17	-100%
1919	11	0.000005213	11	-100%
1920	21	0.000009281	21	-100%
1921	14	0.000005997	14	-100%
1922	15	0.000006553	15	-100%
1923	20	0.000008686	20	-100%
1924	15	0.000006298	15	-100%
1925	12	0.000005143	12	-100%
1926	12	0.000005227	12	-100%
1927	13	0.000005605	13	-100%
1928	10	0.000004423	10	-100%
1930	10	0.000004498	10	-100%
1931	7	0.000003326	7	-100%
1932	12	0.000005684	12	-100%
1933	7	0.000003501	7	-100%
1934	6	0.000002889	6	-100%
1936	8	0.000003851	8	-100%
1938	8	0.000003616	8	-100%
1939	8	0.000003631	8	-100%
1941	5	0.000002052	5	-100%
1942	7	0.000002562	7	-100%
1943	6	0.000002126	6	-100%
1945	5	0.000001885	5	-100%
1950	8	0.000002284	8	-100%
1952	8	0.000002106	8	-100%
1953	6	0.000001557	6	-100%
1954	7	0.000001758	7	-100%
1956	5	0.000001213	5	-100%
1958	5	0.00000121	5	-100%
1960	7	0.000001685	7	-100%
1962	6	0.000001487	6	-100%
1964	5	0.000001286	5	-100%
1970	5	0.000001386	5	-100%
1971	5	0.000001457	5	-100%
1978	12	0.000003781	12	-100%
1979	8	0.000002405	8	-100%
1981	9	0.000002602	9	-100%
1982	8	0.000002281	8	-100%
1983	6	0.000001732	6	-100%
1984	11	0.000003153	11	-100%
1985	7	0.000001961	7	-100%
1986	10	0.000002811	10	-100%
1987	6	0.000001664	6	-100%
1988	9	0.000002436	9	-100%
1989	8	0.000002081	8	-100%
1990	13	0.000003289	13	-100%
1991	7	0.000001797	7	-100%
1992	9	0.000002343	9	-100%
1993	8	0.000002122	8	-100%
1994	13	0.000003497	13	-100%
1995	14	0.000003823	14	-100%
1996	24	0.00000658	24	-100%
1997	28	0.000007723	28	-100%
1998	47	0.000012778	47	-100%
1999	48	0.000012995	48	-100%
2000	47	0.000012434	47	-100%
2001	79	0.000021104	79	-100%
2002	76	0.00002033	76	-100%
2003	87	0.000022881	87	-100%
2004	70	0.00001832	70	-100%
2005	114	0.00002965	114	-100%
2006	126	0.000031849	126	-100%
2007	143	0.000035771	143	-100%
2008	161	0.00004096	161	-100%
2009	125	0.000032721	125	-100%
2010	161	0.000043564	161	-100%
2011	154	0.000042102	154	-100%
2012	162	0.000044294	162	-100%
2013	209	0.000057328	209	-100%
2014	215	0.000058008	215	-100%
2015	263	0.000071064	263	-100%
2016	296	0.000080683	296	-100%
2017	335	0.000093675	335	-100%
2018	295	0.000083905	295	-100%
2019	299	0.000086144	299	-100%
2020	290	0.000086811	290	-100%
2021	354	0.000104488	354	-100%
2022	327	0.000096656	327	-100%
2023	337	0.000101776	337	-100%
2024	340	0.000102148	340	-100%

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