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How popular is “Milford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Milford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Milford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Milford” 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 6 0.000029779 6 -100%
1881 9 0.000046708 9 -100%
1882 8 0.000036112 8 -100%
1883 11 0.000050704 11 -100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 16 0.000062667 16 -100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 -100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 -100%
1889 8 0.000027687 8 -100%
1890 12 0.000039814 12 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 18 0.000053832 18 -100%
1893 13 0.000039973 13 -100%
1894 17 0.000050193 17 -100%
1895 15 0.000042733 15 -100%
1896 19 0.000053149 19 -100%
1897 10 0.000028822 10 -100%
1898 12 0.000031458 12 -100%
1899 12 0.000035374 12 -100%
1900 22 0.000048861 22 -100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 -100%
1902 18 0.000046544 18 -100%
1903 13 0.000034103 13 -100%
1904 30 0.000074352 30 -100%
1905 21 0.000049537 21 -100%
1906 25 0.00005835 25 -100%
1907 28 0.000060165 28 -100%
1908 25 0.000051161 25 -100%
1909 33 0.000064551 33 -100%
1910 33 0.000055865 33 -100%
1911 56 0.000086919 56 -100%
1912 99 0.000100196 99 -100%
1913 128 0.000112566 128 -100%
1914 131 0.000092492 131 -100%
1915 195 0.000106416 195 -100%
1916 196 0.000101323 196 -100%
1917 230 0.000114613 230 -100%
1918 214 0.000098567 214 -100%
1919 205 0.000097145 205 -100%
1920 229 0.000101209 229 -100%
1921 234 0.000100235 234 -100%
1922 227 0.000099163 227 -100%
1923 230 0.000099892 7 223 -94%
1924 233 0.000097833 233 -100%
1925 234 0.000100287 234 -100%
1926 212 0.000092338 212 -100%
1927 194 0.000083644 194 -100%
1928 201 0.000088901 201 -100%
1929 185 0.000084392 185 -100%
1930 172 0.000077363 172 -100%
1931 159 0.000075556 159 -100%
1932 151 0.00007152 151 -100%
1933 156 0.000078022 156 -100%
1934 150 0.000072226 150 -100%
1935 154 0.000073688 6 148 -92%
1936 133 0.000064017 133 -100%
1937 143 0.000067115 143 -100%
1938 141 0.000063727 141 -100%
1939 119 0.000054006 119 -100%
1940 137 0.000059496 137 -100%
1941 109 0.000044738 109 -100%
1942 111 0.000040632 111 -100%
1943 131 0.000046412 131 -100%
1944 111 0.000041263 111 -100%
1945 114 0.000042972 114 -100%
1946 105 0.000032861 105 -100%
1947 102 0.000028315 102 -100%
1948 107 0.000030992 107 -100%
1949 104 0.000029844 104 -100%
1950 83 0.000023692 83 -100%
1951 78 0.000021174 78 -100%
1952 80 0.000021064 80 -100%
1953 82 0.000021279 82 -100%
1954 67 0.000016831 67 -100%
1955 74 0.000018431 74 -100%
1956 74 0.000017948 74 -100%
1957 50 0.000011899 50 -100%
1958 61 0.000014756 61 -100%
1959 52 0.000012506 52 -100%
1960 51 0.000012278 51 -100%
1961 67 0.000016175 67 -100%
1962 46 0.000011399 46 -100%
1963 44 0.000011116 44 -100%
1964 38 0.000009775 38 -100%
1965 42 0.000011585 42 -100%
1966 26 0.000007481 26 -100%
1967 32 0.000009426 32 -100%
1968 41 0.000012136 41 -100%
1969 28 0.000008057 28 -100%
1970 28 0.000007764 28 -100%
1971 22 0.00000641 22 -100%
1972 23 0.000007318 23 -100%
1973 25 0.000008287 25 -100%
1974 19 0.00000625 19 -100%
1975 22 0.000007286 22 -100%
1976 26 0.000008569 26 -100%
1977 19 0.000005981 19 -100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 -100%
1979 17 0.00000511 17 -100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 -100%
1981 15 0.000004336 15 -100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 -100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 -100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 -100%

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