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How popular is “Mills” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mills” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mills” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mills” 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
1882 8 0.000036112 8 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 -100%
1914 11 0.000007766 11 -100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 -100%
1917 11 0.000005482 11 -100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 -100%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 -100%
1920 14 0.000006187 14 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1928 11 0.000004865 11 -100%
1929 14 0.000006386 14 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1935 10 0.000004785 10 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 14 0.000006571 14 -100%
1938 7 0.000003164 7 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 -100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 -100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 -100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2013 19 0.000005212 5 14 -47%
2014 16 0.000004317 6 10 -25%
2015 24 0.000006485 9 15 -25%
2016 22 0.000005997 22 -100%
2017 29 0.000008109 5 24 -66%
2018 41 0.000011661 11 30 -46%
2019 31 0.000008931 8 23 -48%
2020 35 0.000010477 6 29 -66%
2021 42 0.000012397 6 36 -71%
2022 45 0.000013301 21 24 -7%
2023 53 0.000016006 19 34 -28%
2024 58 0.000017425 15 43 -48%

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