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How popular is “Mildred” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mildred” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mildred” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mildred” 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 132 0.000655139 132 100%
1881 154 0.000799211 154 100%
1882 172 0.000776408 172 100%
1883 183 0.000843532 183 100%
1884 247 0.001014536 247 100%
1885 245 0.001017214 245 100%
1886 289 0.001131926 289 100%
1887 373 0.001507723 373 100%
1888 499 0.00166626 499 100%
1889 630 0.002180338 625 5 98%
1890 641 0.002126735 635 6 98%
1891 761 0.002654611 761 100%
1892 959 0.002868046 959 100%
1893 1008 0.003099412 1008 100%
1894 1226 0.003619829 1220 6 99%
1895 1480 0.004216272 1474 6 99%
1896 1629 0.004556847 1620 9 99%
1897 1729 0.004983326 1723 6 99%
1898 2109 0.005528816 2101 8 99%
1899 2297 0.006771157 2291 6 99%
1900 2813 0.006247487 2800 13 99%
1901 2431 0.007029831 2424 7 99%
1902 2764 0.007147068 2750 14 99%
1903 3109 0.008155781 3088 21 99%
1904 3538 0.008768603 3525 13 99%
1905 3775 0.008904877 3758 17 99%
1906 3887 0.009072216 3873 14 99%
1907 4291 0.009220184 4277 14 99%
1908 4644 0.009503696 4624 20 99%
1909 5073 0.009923243 5054 19 99%
1910 5710 0.009666301 5692 18 99%
1911 6298 0.009775268 6271 27 99%
1912 8786 0.008892173 8764 22 99%
1913 9952 0.008752004 9921 31 99%
1914 11686 0.008250808 11649 37 99%
1915 15292 0.008345203 15254 38 100%
1916 15677 0.008104246 15633 44 99%
1917 16302 0.008123563 16256 46 99%
1918 17300 0.007968274 17258 42 100%
1919 17344 0.008218927 17300 44 99%
1920 18099 0.007999028 18060 39 100%
1921 17922 0.007677006 17880 42 100%
1922 16454 0.007187814 16412 42 99%
1923 16040 0.006966359 15989 51 99%
1924 15897 0.006674866 15853 44 99%
1925 14497 0.006213033 14452 45 99%
1926 13600 0.005923613 13548 52 99%
1927 13105 0.005650278 13055 50 99%
1928 11702 0.005175813 11650 52 99%
1929 10309 0.004702649 10257 52 99%
1930 9390 0.00422349 9353 37 99%
1931 8219 0.003905723 8170 49 99%
1932 7686 0.003640475 7643 43 99%
1933 6611 0.003306479 6568 43 99%
1934 6214 0.002992152 6180 34 99%
1935 5578 0.002669131 5546 32 99%
1936 5087 0.002448587 5051 36 99%
1937 4665 0.002189499 4645 20 99%
1938 4477 0.002023445 4440 37 98%
1939 4157 0.001886625 4137 20 99%
1940 3969 0.001723704 3937 32 98%
1941 3871 0.001588859 3848 23 99%
1942 3818 0.001397651 3806 12 99%
1943 3641 0.001289988 3627 14 99%
1944 3333 0.00123903 3318 15 99%
1945 2968 0.001118797 2960 8 99%
1946 3079 0.000963618 3066 13 99%
1947 3126 0.000867798 3117 9 99%
1948 2763 0.000800294 2756 7 99%
1949 2642 0.000758169 2634 8 99%
1950 2301 0.00065679 2296 5 100%
1951 2190 0.0005945 2184 6 99%
1952 2057 0.000541596 2051 6 99%
1953 1942 0.000503943 1942 100%
1954 1840 0.000462229 1835 5 99%
1955 1651 0.000411201 1641 10 99%
1956 1644 0.000398731 1636 8 99%
1957 1416 0.000336943 1411 5 99%
1958 1319 0.000319157 1314 5 99%
1959 1263 0.000303845 1263 100%
1960 1089 0.000262139 1082 7 99%
1961 994 0.000240043 994 100%
1962 965 0.000239155 965 100%
1963 900 0.000227354 900 100%
1964 847 0.000217868 847 100%
1965 749 0.000206585 749 100%
1966 658 0.000189318 658 100%
1967 572 0.000168483 572 100%
1968 476 0.000140889 476 100%
1969 456 0.000131199 451 5 98%
1970 489 0.000135576 482 7 97%
1971 388 0.000113038 388 100%
1972 339 0.000107848 339 100%
1973 311 0.000103078 311 100%
1974 300 0.000098678 300 100%
1975 256 0.000084776 256 100%
1976 239 0.000078757 239 100%
1977 204 0.000064218 204 100%
1978 179 0.000056392 179 100%
1979 160 0.000048087 160 100%
1980 160 0.000046446 160 100%
1981 155 0.000044803 155 100%
1982 175 0.000049883 175 100%
1983 138 0.000039845 138 100%
1984 150 0.000042996 150 100%
1985 106 0.0000297 106 100%
1986 128 0.000035986 128 100%
1987 116 0.000032174 116 100%
1988 123 0.00003329 123 100%
1989 127 0.000033036 127 100%
1990 109 0.00002758 109 100%
1991 122 0.000031322 122 100%
1992 101 0.000026295 101 100%
1993 89 0.000023608 89 100%
1994 77 0.000020714 77 100%
1995 84 0.000022939 84 100%
1996 79 0.000021662 79 100%
1997 69 0.000019032 69 100%
1998 80 0.000021751 80 100%
1999 63 0.000017056 63 100%
2000 81 0.000021431 81 100%
2001 75 0.000020037 75 100%
2002 83 0.000022206 83 100%
2003 89 0.00002341 89 100%
2004 80 0.00002094 80 100%
2005 73 0.00001899 73 100%
2006 76 0.000019215 76 100%
2007 93 0.00002327 93 100%
2008 87 0.000022141 87 100%
2009 69 0.000018068 69 100%
2010 69 0.000018677 69 100%
2011 70 0.000019145 70 100%
2012 64 0.000017507 64 100%
2013 74 0.000020309 74 100%
2014 82 0.000022137 82 100%
2015 88 0.000023794 88 100%
2016 79 0.00002155 79 100%
2017 83 0.000023231 83 100%
2018 93 0.000026483 93 100%
2019 77 0.000022217 77 100%
2020 96 0.000028794 96 100%
2021 102 0.00003018 102 100%
2022 108 0.000032125 108 100%