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How popular is “Nigel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nigel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nigel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nigel” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1952 11 0.000002896 11 -100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 -100%
1954 20 0.000005024 20 -100%
1955 26 0.000006476 26 -100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 -100%
1957 29 0.000006901 29 -100%
1958 24 0.000005806 24 -100%
1959 22 0.000005291 22 -100%
1960 22 0.000005296 22 -100%
1961 26 0.000006277 26 -100%
1962 26 0.000006443 26 -100%
1963 22 0.000005558 22 -100%
1964 28 0.000007202 28 -100%
1965 27 0.000007447 27 -100%
1966 23 0.000006617 23 -100%
1967 44 0.000012961 44 -100%
1968 45 0.00001332 45 -100%
1969 55 0.000015826 55 -100%
1970 56 0.000015527 56 -100%
1971 95 0.000027678 95 -100%
1972 89 0.000028317 89 -100%
1973 100 0.000033147 5 95 -90%
1974 98 0.000032237 8 90 -84%
1975 139 0.000046036 7 132 -90%
1976 123 0.000040537 123 -100%
1977 157 0.000049426 11 146 -86%
1978 124 0.000039069 7 117 -89%
1979 145 0.000043583 145 -100%
1980 165 0.000047902 165 -100%
1981 191 0.000055212 191 -100%
1982 145 0.000041335 145 -100%
1983 161 0.000046487 161 -100%
1984 154 0.000044142 154 -100%
1985 200 0.000056036 6 194 -94%
1986 208 0.000058475 208 -100%
1987 208 0.000057688 208 -100%
1988 240 0.000064952 240 -100%
1989 291 0.000075694 5 286 -97%
1990 315 0.000079697 315 -100%
1991 322 0.000082664 5 317 -97%
1992 391 0.000101789 7 384 -96%
1993 432 0.00011458 432 -100%
1994 454 0.00012212 7 447 -97%
1995 405 0.000110591 405 -100%
1996 383 0.000105012 383 -100%
1997 372 0.000102599 372 -100%
1998 373 0.000101408 373 -100%
1999 361 0.00009773 361 -100%
2000 349 0.00009233 349 -100%
2001 305 0.000081477 305 -100%
2002 280 0.000074901 280 -100%
2003 266 0.000069957 266 -100%
2004 237 0.000062027 237 -100%
2005 276 0.000071784 276 -100%
2006 309 0.000078105 309 -100%
2007 303 0.000075794 303 -100%
2008 271 0.000068945 271 -100%
2009 249 0.00006518 249 -100%
2010 216 0.000058446 216 -100%
2011 194 0.000053037 194 -100%
2012 178 0.000048669 178 -100%
2013 170 0.000046631 170 -100%
2014 155 0.00004182 155 -100%
2015 173 0.000046745 173 -100%
2016 144 0.000039251 144 -100%
2017 150 0.000041944 150 -100%
2018 125 0.000035553 125 -100%
2019 108 0.000031116 108 -100%
2020 79 0.000023649 79 -100%
2021 94 0.000027745 94 -100%
2022 71 0.000020986 71 -100%
2023 73 0.000022046 73 -100%
2024 66 0.000019829 66 -100%

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