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How popular is “Nichol” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nichol” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nichol” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nichol” 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
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1967 16 0.000004713 16 100%
1968 30 0.00000888 30 100%
1969 91 0.000026185 85 6 87%
1970 115 0.000031887 115 100%
1971 119 0.00003467 114 5 92%
1972 182 0.000057907 182 100%
1973 151 0.000050052 151 100%
1974 118 0.000038816 118 100%
1975 122 0.000040405 122 100%
1976 143 0.000047128 137 6 92%
1977 138 0.000043444 133 5 93%
1978 161 0.000050727 161 100%
1979 195 0.000058611 195 100%
1980 166 0.000048193 166 100%
1981 105 0.000030352 105 100%
1982 143 0.000040764 143 100%
1983 106 0.000030606 106 100%
1984 87 0.000024937 87 100%
1985 121 0.000033902 121 100%
1986 73 0.000020522 73 100%
1987 52 0.000014422 52 100%
1988 63 0.00001705 63 100%
1989 55 0.000014306 55 100%
1990 55 0.000013915 55 100%
1991 33 0.000008472 33 100%
1992 41 0.000010674 41 100%
1993 25 0.000006631 25 100%
1994 22 0.000005918 22 100%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 100%
1996 22 0.000006032 22 100%
1997 24 0.000006619 24 100%
1998 19 0.000005166 19 100%
1999 15 0.000004061 15 100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 100%

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