Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Mario” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mario” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mario” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mario” 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 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 -100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 -100%
1904 13 0.000032219 13 -100%
1905 14 0.000033025 14 -100%
1906 15 0.00003501 15 -100%
1907 20 0.000042975 20 -100%
1908 28 0.000057301 28 -100%
1909 27 0.000052814 27 -100%
1910 47 0.000079565 47 -100%
1911 56 0.000086919 56 -100%
1912 152 0.000153837 152 -100%
1913 166 0.000145984 166 -100%
1914 289 0.000204046 289 -100%
1915 354 0.000193187 354 -100%
1916 379 0.000195925 379 -100%
1917 365 0.000181886 6 359 -97%
1918 351 0.000161668 351 -100%
1919 353 0.000167279 353 -100%
1920 408 0.00018032 408 -100%
1921 509 0.000218033 7 502 -97%
1922 451 0.000197016 451 -100%
1923 504 0.000218894 504 -100%
1924 483 0.000202804 483 -100%
1925 506 0.00021686 5 501 -98%
1926 525 0.000228668 7 518 -97%
1927 502 0.000216439 10 492 -96%
1928 486 0.000214955 9 477 -96%
1929 448 0.000204365 5 443 -98%
1930 455 0.000204652 6 449 -97%
1931 393 0.000186753 393 -100%
1932 344 0.000162933 344 -100%
1933 318 0.000159044 318 -100%
1934 314 0.000151193 8 306 -95%
1935 304 0.000145462 304 -100%
1936 300 0.000144399 6 294 -96%
1937 271 0.00012719 271 -100%
1938 297 0.000134233 297 -100%
1939 238 0.000108013 238 -100%
1940 294 0.000127677 294 -100%
1941 270 0.000110818 270 -100%
1942 303 0.000110915 303 -100%
1943 331 0.000117269 331 -100%
1944 340 0.00012639 340 -100%
1945 350 0.000131931 5 345 -97%
1946 390 0.000122054 7 383 -96%
1947 500 0.000138799 500 -100%
1948 622 0.000180158 622 -100%
1949 611 0.000175334 5 606 -98%
1950 746 0.000212939 746 -100%
1951 869 0.000235902 6 863 -99%
1952 971 0.000255661 971 -100%
1953 1007 0.000261311 11 996 -98%
1954 1081 0.00027156 8 1073 -99%
1955 1088 0.000270978 13 1075 -98%
1956 1216 0.000294928 8 1208 -99%
1957 1157 0.000275336 5 1152 -99%
1958 1197 0.000289557 8 1189 -99%
1959 1216 0.000292449 11 1205 -98%
1960 1333 0.00032091 10 1323 -98%
1961 1310 0.000316249 12 1298 -98%
1962 1325 0.000328346 13 1312 -98%
1963 1330 0.000336011 8 1322 -99%
1964 1368 0.000351888 10 1358 -99%
1965 1301 0.000358852 12 1289 -98%
1966 1304 0.000375181 14 1290 -98%
1967 1329 0.00039147 19 1310 -97%
1968 1379 0.00040818 25 1354 -96%
1969 1654 0.000475927 22 1632 -97%
1970 1924 0.000533479 26 1898 -97%
1971 1928 0.000561713 25 1903 -97%
1972 1955 0.000622018 28 1927 -97%
1973 2051 0.00067984 33 2018 -97%
1974 2090 0.0006875 29 2061 -97%
1975 2091 0.000692523 32 2059 -97%
1976 2058 0.000678245 29 2029 -97%
1977 2154 0.000678106 33 2121 -97%
1978 2263 0.00071301 33 2230 -97%
1979 2734 0.000821761 32 2702 -98%
1980 2974 0.000863404 38 2936 -97%
1981 2738 0.000791472 26 2712 -98%
1982 2687 0.000765972 27 2660 -98%
1983 2401 0.000693262 28 2373 -98%
1984 2372 0.000679899 24 2348 -98%
1985 2443 0.000684484 27 2416 -98%
1986 2511 0.000705916 36 2475 -97%
1987 2782 0.000771575 43 2739 -97%
1988 2924 0.00079133 32 2892 -98%
1989 2873 0.000747312 30 2843 -98%
1990 2847 0.000720308 24 2823 -98%
1991 2598 0.000666964 23 2575 -98%
1992 2644 0.000688314 17 2627 -99%
1993 2483 0.000658572 14 2469 -99%
1994 2482 0.000667626 16 2466 -99%
1995 2403 0.000656171 13 2390 -99%
1996 2385 0.000653927 8 2377 -99%
1997 2304 0.000635455 9 2295 -99%
1998 2267 0.000616333 6 2261 -99%
1999 2295 0.0006213 7 2288 -99%
2000 2333 0.000617211 2333 -100%
2001 2229 0.00059545 12 2217 -99%
2002 2271 0.000607497 6 2265 -99%
2003 2364 0.000621726 6 2358 -99%
2004 2271 0.000594359 9 2262 -99%
2005 2304 0.000599244 2304 -100%
2006 2300 0.000581368 5 2295 -100%
2007 2291 0.000573082 2291 -100%
2008 2173 0.000552833 6 2167 -99%
2009 1938 0.000507307 1938 -100%
2010 1708 0.000462154 1708 -100%
2011 1598 0.000436876 1598 -100%
2012 1445 0.000395093 1445 -100%
2013 1427 0.000391424 1427 -100%
2014 1368 0.000369094 1368 -100%
2015 1293 0.000349373 1293 -100%
2016 1156 0.000315098 1156 -100%
2017 1138 0.000318215 1138 -100%
2018 1021 0.000290395 1021 -100%
2019 1030 0.00029675 1030 -100%
2020 998 0.000298751 998 -100%
2021 937 0.000276569 937 -100%
2022 901 0.000266321 901 -100%
2023 788 0.00023798 788 -100%
2024 808 0.000242752 808 -100%

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