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How popular is “Nichols” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nichols” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nichols” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nichols” 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
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 -100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 -100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 -100%
1979 33 0.000009919 33 -100%
1980 24 0.000006968 24 -100%
1981 24 0.000006938 24 -100%
1982 22 0.000006271 22 -100%
1983 28 0.000008085 28 -100%
1984 33 0.000009459 33 -100%
1985 36 0.000010087 36 -100%
1986 40 0.000011245 40 -100%
1987 55 0.000015254 55 -100%
1988 36 0.000009743 36 -100%
1989 24 0.000006243 24 -100%
1990 23 0.000005819 23 -100%
1991 23 0.000005905 23 -100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 -100%
1993 14 0.000003713 14 -100%
1994 18 0.000004842 18 -100%
1995 20 0.000005461 20 -100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 -100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 -100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 -100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 -100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 -100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%

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