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How popular is “Nixon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nixon” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nixon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nixon” 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
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 -100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 -100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 -100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 -100%
1992 8 0.000002083 8 -100%
1993 15 0.000003978 15 -100%
1994 17 0.000004573 17 -100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 -100%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 -100%
1997 25 0.000006895 25 -100%
1998 24 0.000006525 24 -100%
1999 18 0.000004873 18 -100%
2000 25 0.000006614 25 -100%
2001 22 0.000005877 22 -100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 -100%
2003 29 0.000007627 29 -100%
2004 47 0.000012301 47 -100%
2005 57 0.000014825 57 -100%
2006 82 0.000020727 8 74 -80%
2007 86 0.000021512 8 78 -81%
2008 126 0.000032056 7 119 -89%
2009 169 0.000044239 15 154 -82%
2010 201 0.000054387 13 188 -87%
2011 242 0.00006616 16 226 -87%
2012 377 0.00010308 12 365 -94%
2013 451 0.000123708 18 433 -92%
2014 492 0.000132744 22 470 -91%
2015 580 0.000156718 20 560 -93%
2016 596 0.000162455 26 570 -91%
2017 638 0.000178402 31 607 -90%
2018 597 0.0001698 25 572 -92%
2019 506 0.000145782 35 471 -86%
2020 428 0.000128122 17 411 -92%
2021 401 0.000118361 17 384 -92%
2022 368 0.000108775 14 354 -92%
2023 281 0.000084864 18 263 -87%
2024 284 0.000085324 9 275 -94%

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