Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nation” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nation” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nation” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nation” 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
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 -100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 -100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 -100%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 -100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 13 0.000003513 6 7 -8%
2016 22 0.000005997 5 17 -55%
2017 25 0.000006991 6 19 -52%
2018 26 0.000007395 8 18 -38%
2019 36 0.000010372 11 25 -39%
2020 52 0.000015566 10 42 -62%
2021 49 0.000014463 5 44 -80%
2022 41 0.000012119 12 29 -41%
2023 24 0.000007248 24 -100%
2024 20 0.000006009 20 -100%

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