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How popular is “Nance” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nance” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nance” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nance” 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 7 0.000006156 7 100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1923 9 0.000003909 9 100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1928 13 0.00000575 13 100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 100%
1932 28 0.000013262 23 5 64%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 100%
1935 13 0.00000622 13 100%
1936 23 0.000011071 18 5 57%
1937 19 0.000008917 19 100%
1938 14 0.000006327 14 100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 100%
1940 14 0.00000608 14 100%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 100%
1942 18 0.000006589 18 100%
1943 17 0.000006023 17 100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 100%
1946 29 0.000009076 29 100%
1947 32 0.000008883 32 100%
1948 20 0.000005793 20 100%
1949 24 0.000006887 24 100%
1950 29 0.000008278 29 100%
1951 23 0.000006244 23 100%
1952 23 0.000006056 23 100%
1953 23 0.000005968 23 100%
1954 31 0.000007788 31 100%
1955 23 0.000005728 23 100%
1956 23 0.000005578 23 100%
1957 22 0.000005235 22 100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 100%
1960 19 0.000004574 19 100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 100%
1962 15 0.000003717 15 100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%

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