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How popular is “Mcdonald” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mcdonald” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mcdonald” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mcdonald” 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
1913 9 0.000007915 9 -100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 -100%
1916 9 0.000004653 9 -100%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 -100%
1918 19 0.000008751 19 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 13 0.000005745 13 -100%
1921 18 0.00000771 18 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 17 0.000007383 17 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 -100%
1927 9 0.00000388 9 -100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 18 0.000008526 18 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 -100%
1935 10 0.000004785 10 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 15 0.00000704 15 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 8 0.000003283 8 -100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 12 0.000004461 12 -100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 -100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 -100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 -100%
1951 14 0.0000038 14 -100%
1952 15 0.000003949 15 -100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 -100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%

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