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How popular is “Major” in the USA?

Number of people named “Major” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Major” by birth year

This chart shows how “Major” 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 28 0.000138969 28 -100%
1881 40 0.000207589 40 -100%
1882 44 0.000198616 44 -100%
1883 41 0.000188987 41 -100%
1884 36 0.000147868 36 -100%
1885 37 0.00015362 37 -100%
1886 31 0.000121418 31 -100%
1887 40 0.000161687 40 -100%
1888 37 0.00012355 37 -100%
1889 44 0.000152278 44 -100%
1890 27 0.000089582 27 -100%
1891 34 0.000118602 34 -100%
1892 41 0.000122617 41 -100%
1893 41 0.000126067 41 -100%
1894 37 0.000109244 37 -100%
1895 34 0.000096861 34 -100%
1896 42 0.000117488 42 -100%
1897 39 0.000112406 39 -100%
1898 42 0.000110105 42 -100%
1899 42 0.000123808 42 -100%
1900 51 0.000113268 51 -100%
1901 22 0.000063618 22 -100%
1902 46 0.000118945 46 -100%
1903 36 0.000094439 36 -100%
1904 31 0.000076831 31 -100%
1905 44 0.000103793 44 -100%
1906 39 0.000091026 39 -100%
1907 30 0.000064462 30 -100%
1908 38 0.000077765 38 -100%
1909 51 0.000099761 51 -100%
1910 46 0.000077872 46 -100%
1911 50 0.000077606 50 -100%
1912 68 0.000068822 68 -100%
1913 98 0.000086183 98 -100%
1914 109 0.000076959 109 -100%
1915 151 0.000082404 151 -100%
1916 130 0.000067204 130 -100%
1917 159 0.000079233 159 -100%
1918 153 0.000070471 153 -100%
1919 183 0.00008672 183 -100%
1920 169 0.000074691 169 -100%
1921 162 0.000069394 162 -100%
1922 151 0.000065963 151 -100%
1923 129 0.000056027 5 124 -92%
1924 150 0.000062983 150 -100%
1925 116 0.000049715 116 -100%
1926 147 0.000064027 147 -100%
1927 145 0.000062517 145 -100%
1928 150 0.000066344 150 -100%
1929 122 0.000055653 122 -100%
1930 143 0.000064319 143 -100%
1931 95 0.000045144 95 -100%
1932 125 0.000059205 125 -100%
1933 107 0.000053515 107 -100%
1934 95 0.000045743 95 -100%
1935 89 0.000042586 89 -100%
1936 103 0.000049577 103 -100%
1937 99 0.000046464 6 93 -88%
1938 98 0.000044292 98 -100%
1939 108 0.000049014 5 103 -91%
1940 127 0.000055153 127 -100%
1941 92 0.00003776 92 -100%
1942 122 0.000044659 122 -100%
1943 126 0.00004464 126 -100%
1944 129 0.000047954 129 -100%
1945 121 0.00004561 121 -100%
1946 108 0.0000338 108 -100%
1947 121 0.000033589 121 -100%
1948 120 0.000034757 120 -100%
1949 110 0.000031566 110 -100%
1950 134 0.000038249 134 -100%
1951 134 0.000036376 134 -100%
1952 116 0.000030542 116 -100%
1953 116 0.000030101 116 -100%
1954 111 0.000027884 111 -100%
1955 103 0.000025653 103 -100%
1956 98 0.000023769 98 -100%
1957 100 0.000023797 100 -100%
1958 97 0.000023465 97 -100%
1959 105 0.000025253 105 -100%
1960 71 0.000017093 71 -100%
1961 66 0.000015933 66 -100%
1962 67 0.000016603 67 -100%
1963 77 0.000019453 77 -100%
1964 83 0.00002135 83 -100%
1965 79 0.00002179 79 -100%
1966 57 0.0000164 57 -100%
1967 68 0.00002003 68 -100%
1968 55 0.00001628 55 -100%
1969 69 0.000019854 69 -100%
1970 72 0.000019964 72 -100%
1971 67 0.00001952 67 -100%
1972 57 0.000018136 57 -100%
1973 59 0.000019557 59 -100%
1974 59 0.000019408 59 -100%
1975 50 0.00001656 50 -100%
1976 46 0.00001516 46 -100%
1977 50 0.000015741 50 -100%
1978 54 0.000017014 54 -100%
1979 58 0.000017433 58 -100%
1980 65 0.000018871 65 -100%
1981 69 0.000019946 69 -100%
1982 51 0.000014538 51 -100%
1983 47 0.000013571 47 -100%
1984 53 0.000015192 53 -100%
1985 39 0.000010927 39 -100%
1986 51 0.000014338 51 -100%
1987 44 0.000012203 44 -100%
1988 60 0.000016238 60 -100%
1989 73 0.000018988 73 -100%
1990 62 0.000015686 62 -100%
1991 51 0.000013093 51 -100%
1992 48 0.000012496 48 -100%
1993 56 0.000014853 56 -100%
1994 46 0.000012373 46 -100%
1995 43 0.000011742 43 -100%
1996 36 0.000009871 36 -100%
1997 39 0.000010756 39 -100%
1998 36 0.000009787 36 -100%
1999 33 0.000008934 33 -100%
2000 55 0.000014551 55 -100%
2001 74 0.000019768 74 -100%
2002 78 0.000020865 78 -100%
2003 63 0.000016569 63 -100%
2004 75 0.000019629 75 -100%
2005 74 0.000019247 74 -100%
2006 83 0.00002098 83 -100%
2007 94 0.000023514 94 -100%
2008 90 0.000022897 90 -100%
2009 182 0.000047642 182 -100%
2010 238 0.000064398 238 -100%
2011 197 0.000053858 197 -100%
2012 556 0.000152022 556 -100%
2013 859 0.000235622 5 854 -99%
2014 941 0.000253887 7 934 -99%
2015 912 0.000246426 912 -100%
2016 988 0.000269305 988 -100%
2017 1050 0.000293608 8 1042 -98%
2018 955 0.000271623 11 944 -98%
2019 954 0.000274854 6 948 -99%
2020 919 0.000275102 8 911 -98%
2021 762 0.000224915 5 757 -99%
2022 703 0.000207795 703 -100%
2023 583 0.000176069 5 578 -98%
2024 495 0.000148716 5 490 -98%

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