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How popular is “Nelma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nelma” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nelma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nelma” 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
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 100%
1913 13 0.000011432 13 100%
1914 21 0.000014827 21 100%
1915 17 0.000009277 17 100%
1916 22 0.000011373 22 100%
1917 23 0.000011461 23 100%
1918 29 0.000013357 29 100%
1919 36 0.00001706 36 100%
1920 30 0.000013259 30 100%
1921 34 0.000014564 34 100%
1922 42 0.000018347 42 100%
1923 42 0.000018241 42 100%
1924 42 0.000017635 42 100%
1925 45 0.000019286 45 100%
1926 50 0.000021778 50 100%
1927 45 0.000019402 45 100%
1928 43 0.000019019 43 100%
1929 42 0.000019159 42 100%
1930 37 0.000016642 37 100%
1931 30 0.000014256 30 100%
1932 40 0.000018946 40 100%
1933 35 0.000017505 35 100%
1934 37 0.000017816 37 100%
1935 32 0.000015312 32 100%
1936 35 0.000016847 35 100%
1937 30 0.00001408 30 100%
1938 30 0.000013559 30 100%
1939 30 0.000013615 30 100%
1940 25 0.000010857 25 100%
1941 30 0.000012313 30 100%
1942 27 0.000009884 27 100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 100%
1945 19 0.000007162 19 100%
1946 26 0.000008137 26 100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 100%
1949 18 0.000005165 18 100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%

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