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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 0.000799219 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 0.001666255 499 100%
1889 630 0.002180338 625 5 98%
1890 641 0.002126735 635 6 98%
1891 761 0.002654602 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 0.00552883 2101 8 99%
1899 2297 0.006771137 2291 6 99%
1900 2813 0.006247515 2800 13 99%
1901 2431 0.007029831 2424 7 99%
1902 2764 0.00714705 2750 14 99%
1903 3109 0.008155781 3088 21 99%
1904 3538 0.008768603 3525 13 99%
1905 3775 0.008904898 3758 17 99%
1906 3887 0.009072216 3873 14 99%
1907 4291 0.009220204 4277 14 99%
1908 4644 0.009503735 4624 20 99%
1909 5073 0.009923243 5054 19 99%
1910 5710 0.009666317 5692 18 99%
1911 6298 0.009775284 6271 27 99%
1912 8786 0.008892164 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 0.008104259 15633 44 99%
1917 16302 0.008123583 16256 46 99%
1918 17300 0.007968266 17258 42 100%
1919 17344 0.008218943 17300 44 99%
1920 18099 0.007999052 18060 39 100%
1921 17922 0.007677009 17880 42 100%
1922 16454 0.007187805 16412 42 99%
1923 16040 0.006966389 15989 51 99%
1924 15897 0.006674888 15853 44 99%
1925 14498 0.006213504 14453 45 99%
1926 13599 0.005923175 13547 52 99%
1927 13105 0.005650263 13055 50 99%
1928 11702 0.005175762 11650 52 99%
1929 10309 0.004702685 10257 52 99%
1930 9391 0.004223924 9354 37 99%
1931 8219 0.003905687 8170 49 99%
1932 7686 0.003640449 7643 43 99%
1933 6612 0.003306939 6569 43 99%
1934 6214 0.0029921 6180 34 99%
1935 5578 0.002669063 5546 32 99%
1936 5088 0.002449026 5052 36 99%
1937 4665 0.002189491 4645 20 99%
1938 4477 0.002023437 4440 37 98%
1939 4156 0.001886155 4136 20 99%
1940 3969 0.001723676 3937 32 98%
1941 3871 0.001588834 3848 23 99%
1942 3818 0.001397635 3806 12 99%
1943 3641 0.001289966 3627 14 99%
1944 3333 0.001239008 3318 15 99%
1945 2968 0.001118789 2960 8 99%
1946 3079 0.00096361 3066 13 99%
1947 3126 0.000867789 3117 9 99%
1948 2763 0.000800288 2756 7 99%
1949 2642 0.000758163 2634 8 99%
1950 2301 0.000656797 2296 5 100%
1951 2190 0.000594508 2184 6 99%
1952 2057 0.0005416 2051 6 99%
1953 1942 0.000503943 1942 100%
1954 1840 0.000462232 1835 5 99%
1955 1652 0.000411454 1642 10 99%
1956 1644 0.000398735 1636 8 99%
1957 1415 0.000336739 1410 5 99%
1958 1319 0.000319042 1314 5 99%
1959 1264 0.000304086 1264 100%
1960 1088 0.000261921 1081 7 99%
1961 996 0.000240466 996 100%
1962 964 0.00023892 964 100%
1963 900 0.000227368 900 100%
1964 847 0.000217874 847 100%
1965 749 0.000206593 749 100%
1966 658 0.000189321 658 100%
1967 573 0.000168783 573 100%
1968 476 0.000140897 476 100%
1969 456 0.00013121 451 5 98%
1970 489 0.000135588 482 7 97%
1971 388 0.000113044 388 100%
1972 339 0.000107858 339 100%
1973 311 0.000103088 311 100%
1974 300 0.000098684 300 100%
1975 256 0.000084786 256 100%
1976 239 0.000078766 239 100%
1977 204 0.000064223 204 100%
1978 179 0.000056399 179 100%
1979 160 0.000048092 160 100%
1980 159 0.000046161 159 100%
1981 155 0.000044806 155 100%
1982 175 0.000049887 175 100%
1983 138 0.000039847 138 100%
1984 150 0.000042997 150 100%
1985 107 0.000029981 107 100%
1986 128 0.000035986 128 100%
1987 116 0.000032173 116 100%
1988 123 0.000033289 123 100%
1989 127 0.000033036 127 100%
1990 109 0.000027579 109 100%
1991 122 0.000031321 122 100%
1992 101 0.000026295 101 100%
1993 89 0.000023607 89 100%
1994 77 0.000020713 77 100%
1995 84 0.000022938 84 100%
1996 79 0.000021661 79 100%
1997 69 0.000019031 69 100%
1998 80 0.00002175 80 100%
1999 63 0.000017056 63 100%
2000 81 0.00002143 81 100%
2001 75 0.000020036 75 100%
2002 83 0.000022204 83 100%
2003 90 0.000023672 90 100%
2004 80 0.000020939 80 100%
2005 73 0.000018988 73 100%
2006 76 0.000019212 76 100%
2007 93 0.000023266 93 100%
2008 87 0.000022137 87 100%
2009 69 0.000018065 69 100%
2010 69 0.000018673 69 100%
2011 70 0.000019141 70 100%
2012 64 0.000017502 64 100%
2013 74 0.000020303 74 100%
2014 82 0.00002213 82 100%
2015 88 0.000023785 88 100%
2016 79 0.00002154 79 100%
2017 83 0.000023219 83 100%
2018 93 0.000026464 93 100%
2019 77 0.000022198 77 100%
2020 96 0.000028761 96 100%
2021 102 0.000030136 102 100%
2022 108 0.000031966 108 100%
2023 109 0.000033058 109 100%