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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nathan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nathan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nathan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nathan” 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 114 0.000565802 114 -100%
1881 91 0.000472266 91 -100%
1882 113 0.000510082 113 -100%
1883 93 0.000428678 93 -100%
1884 100 0.000410743 100 -100%
1885 103 0.000427645 103 -100%
1886 136 0.000532673 136 -100%
1887 106 0.00042847 106 -100%
1888 129 0.000430755 129 -100%
1889 121 0.000418763 121 -100%
1890 110 0.000364962 110 -100%
1891 106 0.000369759 106 -100%
1892 144 0.000430655 144 -100%
1893 114 0.000350529 114 -100%
1894 127 0.000374974 127 -100%
1895 119 0.000339012 119 -100%
1896 110 0.000307706 110 -100%
1897 139 0.000400626 139 -100%
1898 99 0.000259533 99 -100%
1899 112 0.000330156 112 -100%
1900 186 0.000413096 186 -100%
1901 131 0.000378819 131 -100%
1902 143 0.000369764 143 -100%
1903 146 0.000383001 146 -100%
1904 131 0.000324671 131 -100%
1905 168 0.000396299 168 -100%
1906 148 0.00034543 148 -100%
1907 176 0.000378177 176 -100%
1908 178 0.00036427 178 -100%
1909 209 0.000408823 209 -100%
1910 245 0.000414754 245 -100%
1911 348 0.00054014 348 -100%
1912 581 0.00058802 581 -100%
1913 615 0.000540845 615 -100%
1914 848 0.000598725 848 -100%
1915 922 0.000503158 6 916 -99%
1916 904 0.000467324 904 -100%
1917 887 0.000442008 6 881 -99%
1918 945 0.000435261 945 -100%
1919 849 0.000402323 849 -100%
1920 815 0.000360198 815 -100%
1921 758 0.000324694 7 751 -98%
1922 754 0.000329379 5 749 -99%
1923 739 0.000320958 739 -100%
1924 680 0.000285521 680 -100%
1925 620 0.000265718 5 615 -98%
1926 669 0.000291388 669 -100%
1927 643 0.000277232 7 636 -98%
1928 548 0.000242377 548 -100%
1929 522 0.000238121 9 513 -97%
1930 546 0.000245582 6 540 -98%
1931 449 0.000213364 7 442 -97%
1932 486 0.000230191 486 -100%
1933 413 0.000206557 413 -100%
1934 469 0.000225826 469 -100%
1935 468 0.000223934 468 -100%
1936 464 0.000223337 464 -100%
1937 434 0.000203692 434 -100%
1938 516 0.000233213 516 -100%
1939 474 0.000215118 7 467 -97%
1940 497 0.000215835 497 -100%
1941 527 0.000216301 527 -100%
1942 523 0.000191448 523 -100%
1943 586 0.000207613 5 581 -98%
1944 507 0.00018847 507 -100%
1945 488 0.000183949 488 -100%
1946 557 0.000174318 557 -100%
1947 617 0.000171278 617 -100%
1948 620 0.000179579 620 -100%
1949 660 0.000189395 660 -100%
1950 752 0.000214651 752 -100%
1951 870 0.000236173 870 -100%
1952 851 0.000224065 851 -100%
1953 806 0.000209153 806 -100%
1954 959 0.000240912 959 -100%
1955 956 0.000238102 6 950 -99%
1956 1099 0.000266551 1099 -100%
1957 1230 0.000292708 5 1225 -99%
1958 1248 0.000301894 11 1237 -98%
1959 1387 0.000333574 9 1378 -99%
1960 1635 0.000393614 7 1628 -99%
1961 1499 0.000361876 8 1491 -99%
1962 1532 0.000379643 1532 -100%
1963 1546 0.000390582 5 1541 -99%
1964 1499 0.000385584 1499 -100%
1965 1426 0.000393331 8 1418 -99%
1966 1423 0.000409419 1423 -100%
1967 1439 0.000423871 7 1432 -99%
1968 1668 0.000493723 13 1655 -98%
1969 1920 0.000552467 12 1908 -99%
1970 2558 0.000709272 12 2546 -99%
1971 3066 0.000893264 18 3048 -99%
1972 3539 0.001125996 25 3514 -99%
1973 4759 0.001577454 24 4735 -99%
1974 5874 0.001932238 28 5846 -99%
1975 7106 0.002353452 37 7069 -99%
1976 8653 0.002851729 44 8609 -99%
1977 9934 0.003127347 46 9888 -99%
1978 9950 0.003134974 58 9892 -99%
1979 10784 0.003241359 63 10721 -99%
1980 11215 0.00325591 75 11140 -99%
1981 11327 0.003274291 69 11258 -99%
1982 10875 0.003100091 69 10806 -99%
1983 10644 0.003073335 86 10558 -98%
1984 10686 0.003062984 73 10613 -99%
1985 10741 0.003009434 89 10652 -98%
1986 10059 0.002827883 63 9996 -99%
1987 9972 0.002765687 62 9910 -99%
1988 10198 0.002759914 44 10154 -99%
1989 10950 0.002848264 43 10907 -99%
1990 10961 0.002773197 25 10936 -100%
1991 10526 0.002702255 28 10498 -99%
1992 10170 0.00264756 20 10150 -100%
1993 10224 0.002711736 27 10197 -99%
1994 10415 0.002801499 34 10381 -99%
1995 10325 0.002819378 19 10306 -100%
1996 10309 0.002826556 24 10285 -100%
1997 10458 0.00288437 15 10443 -100%
1998 11595 0.003152351 9 11586 -100%
1999 12556 0.003399148 19 12537 -100%
2000 13054 0.003453527 15 13039 -100%
2001 12665 0.003383297 18 12647 -100%
2002 13254 0.00354547 29 13225 -100%
2003 13693 0.003601223 26 13667 -100%
2004 14695 0.003845929 62 14633 -99%
2005 14396 0.003744234 32 14364 -100%
2006 14300 0.00361459 22 14278 -100%
2007 13622 0.003407474 18 13604 -100%
2008 13276 0.003377546 14 13262 -100%
2009 12152 0.003181006 17 12135 -100%
2010 11387 0.003081116 9 11378 -100%
2011 10533 0.002879606 11 10522 -100%
2012 10447 0.002856426 16 10431 -100%
2013 9730 0.002668922 9 9721 -100%
2014 9004 0.002429327 9 8995 -100%
2015 8608 0.002325913 9 8599 -100%
2016 8006 0.002182245 6 8000 -100%
2017 7449 0.00208294 8 7441 -100%
2018 6860 0.001951138 10 6850 -100%
2019 6087 0.001753707 6087 -100%
2020 5700 0.001706292 5700 -100%
2021 5437 0.001604806 6 5431 -100%
2022 5545 0.001639012 6 5539 -100%
2023 5066 0.001529961 5066 -100%
2024 5018 0.001507586 8 5010 -100%

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