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How popular is “Nancy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nancy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nancy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nancy” 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 410 0.002034901 410 100%
1881 429 0.002226397 429 100%
1882 439 0.001981646 439 100%
1883 412 0.00189909 412 100%
1884 520 0.002135866 520 100%
1885 527 0.002188048 527 100%
1886 492 0.001927024 492 100%
1887 511 0.002065548 511 100%
1888 582 0.001943407 582 100%
1889 477 0.001650827 470 7 97%
1890 512 0.001698734 512 100%
1891 523 0.001824378 523 100%
1892 591 0.001767482 591 100%
1893 538 0.001654249 538 100%
1894 515 0.001520565 515 100%
1895 566 0.001612444 566 100%
1896 527 0.001474192 527 100%
1897 553 0.001593857 553 100%
1898 546 0.001431362 546 100%
1899 475 0.001400213 475 100%
1900 673 0.001494699 673 100%
1901 524 0.001515274 519 5 98%
1902 571 0.001476471 571 100%
1903 527 0.001382476 527 100%
1904 508 0.001259031 508 100%
1905 535 0.001262025 535 100%
1906 557 0.001300032 557 100%
1907 582 0.001250564 582 100%
1908 651 0.001332245 651 100%
1909 610 0.001193215 610 100%
1910 811 0.001372922 811 100%
1911 827 0.001283607 827 100%
1912 1087 0.001100133 1078 9 98%
1913 1290 0.001134455 1290 100%
1914 1583 0.001117666 1575 8 99%
1915 1994 0.001088175 1987 7 99%
1916 2166 0.001119717 2166 100%
1917 2426 0.00120892 2411 15 99%
1918 2518 0.001159775 2510 8 99%
1919 2635 0.00124867 2628 7 99%
1920 2988 0.00132058 2982 6 100%
1921 3330 0.001426427 3323 7 100%
1922 3533 0.001543364 3518 15 99%
1923 3684 0.001600013 3673 11 99%
1924 4003 0.001680796 3989 14 99%
1925 4338 0.001859168 4325 13 99%
1926 4584 0.001996598 4566 18 99%
1927 5043 0.002174309 5022 21 99%
1928 5559 0.002458714 5537 22 99%
1929 6896 0.003145754 6872 24 99%
1930 9093 0.004089889 9068 25 99%
1931 10073 0.004786665 10036 37 99%
1932 10992 0.005206293 10948 44 99%
1933 11915 0.005959148 11869 46 99%
1934 13567 0.006532596 13520 47 99%
1935 14589 0.006980717 14544 45 99%
1936 16817 0.008094521 16754 63 99%
1937 17160 0.008053805 17074 86 99%
1938 19042 0.008606266 18951 91 99%
1939 19796 0.008984126 19722 74 99%
1940 19809 0.008602566 19737 72 99%
1941 20946 0.008597022 20883 63 99%
1942 23393 0.008563162 23328 65 99%
1943 24056 0.008522763 23987 69 99%
1944 23280 0.008654021 23217 63 99%
1945 21517 0.008110716 21456 61 99%
1946 28408 0.008890538 28345 63 100%
1947 32502 0.009022513 32445 57 100%
1948 29453 0.008530875 29412 41 100%
1949 29279 0.008401975 29248 31 100%
1950 29681 0.008472158 29617 64 100%
1951 30396 0.008251399 30346 50 100%
1952 31801 0.00837308 31739 62 100%
1953 30668 0.007958182 30620 48 100%
1954 30323 0.007617489 30269 54 100%
1955 30075 0.007490511 30024 51 100%
1956 28833 0.006993146 28784 49 100%
1957 27573 0.006561652 27516 57 100%
1958 24870 0.006016105 24819 51 100%
1959 23132 0.005563262 23078 54 100%
1960 21947 0.005283576 21892 55 99%
1961 20774 0.005015087 20728 46 100%
1962 18078 0.004479884 18024 54 99%
1963 16312 0.004121065 16267 45 99%
1964 14729 0.003788708 14695 34 100%
1965 12299 0.003392407 12257 42 99%
1966 11759 0.003383247 11730 29 100%
1967 10302 0.003034554 10268 34 99%
1968 8995 0.002662493 8960 35 99%
1969 7939 0.002284392 7902 37 99%
1970 7089 0.00196561 7062 27 99%
1971 6243 0.001818868 6212 31 99%
1972 4837 0.001538978 4818 19 99%
1973 3958 0.001311948 3945 13 99%
1974 3910 0.001286185 3891 19 99%
1975 3529 0.001168778 3510 19 99%
1976 3294 0.001085588 3281 13 99%
1977 3244 0.001021252 3220 24 99%
1978 3066 0.000966013 3045 21 99%
1979 2890 0.00086865 2865 25 98%
1980 2828 0.000821018 2806 22 98%
1981 2932 0.000847552 2912 20 99%
1982 2835 0.000808162 2808 27 98%
1983 2544 0.000734551 2520 24 98%
1984 2521 0.000722607 2487 34 97%
1985 2630 0.000736878 2609 21 98%
1986 2447 0.000687924 2426 21 98%
1987 2269 0.000629296 2235 34 97%
1988 2366 0.000640317 2347 19 98%
1989 2381 0.000619335 2343 38 97%
1990 2413 0.000610503 2385 28 98%
1991 2527 0.000648736 2498 29 98%
1992 2207 0.000574549 2185 22 98%
1993 2000 0.000530465 1986 14 99%
1994 2203 0.000592578 2189 14 99%
1995 2013 0.000549676 2001 12 99%
1996 1825 0.000500385 1825 100%
1997 1531 0.000422258 1525 6 99%
1998 1485 0.000403729 1480 5 99%
1999 1429 0.000386857 1421 8 99%
2000 1384 0.000366147 1378 6 99%
2001 1428 0.000381472 1420 8 99%
2002 1369 0.00036621 1369 100%
2003 1185 0.000311652 1179 6 99%
2004 1155 0.000302283 1150 5 99%
2005 1017 0.00026451 1017 100%
2006 1017 0.000257066 1017 100%
2007 903 0.000225881 903 100%
2008 858 0.000218284 858 100%
2009 667 0.000174599 667 100%
2010 574 0.000155314 574 100%
2011 541 0.000147903 541 100%
2012 437 0.000119485 437 100%
2013 411 0.000112737 411 100%
2014 371 0.000100098 371 100%
2015 345 0.00009322 345 100%
2016 310 0.000084499 310 100%
2017 314 0.000087803 314 100%
2018 326 0.000092722 326 100%
2019 298 0.000085856 298 100%
2020 295 0.000088308 295 100%
2021 279 0.000082351 279 100%
2022 266 0.000078625 266 100%
2023 281 0.000084864 281 100%
2024 288 0.000086525 288 100%

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