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How popular is “Nolan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nolan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nolan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nolan” 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
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1892 10 0.000029907 10 -100%
1893 9 0.000027673 9 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 8 0.000022791 8 -100%
1896 9 0.000025176 9 -100%
1897 12 0.000034586 12 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1899 10 0.000029478 10 -100%
1900 16 0.000035535 16 -100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 -100%
1902 15 0.000038786 15 -100%
1903 10 0.000026233 10 -100%
1904 18 0.000044611 18 -100%
1905 17 0.000040102 17 -100%
1906 20 0.00004668 20 -100%
1907 23 0.000049421 23 -100%
1908 16 0.000032743 16 -100%
1909 28 0.000054771 28 -100%
1910 31 0.000052479 31 -100%
1911 37 0.000057429 5 32 -73%
1912 62 0.000062749 62 -100%
1913 90 0.000079148 90 -100%
1914 108 0.000076253 108 -100%
1915 118 0.000064396 118 -100%
1916 157 0.000081161 7 150 -91%
1917 149 0.000074249 149 -100%
1918 132 0.000060798 132 -100%
1919 149 0.000070608 149 -100%
1920 157 0.000069388 157 -100%
1921 191 0.000081816 191 -100%
1922 183 0.000079942 183 -100%
1923 177 0.000076874 177 -100%
1924 164 0.000068861 164 -100%
1925 161 0.000069001 161 -100%
1926 173 0.000075352 5 168 -94%
1927 174 0.000075021 174 -100%
1928 157 0.00006944 157 -100%
1929 142 0.000064776 142 -100%
1930 180 0.000080961 180 -100%
1931 156 0.000074131 156 -100%
1932 190 0.000089992 190 -100%
1933 167 0.000083523 167 -100%
1934 189 0.000091005 189 -100%
1935 188 0.000089956 188 -100%
1936 166 0.000079901 166 -100%
1937 183 0.000085888 183 -100%
1938 198 0.000089489 198 -100%
1939 205 0.000093036 205 -100%
1940 221 0.000095975 221 -100%
1941 176 0.000072237 176 -100%
1942 192 0.000070283 192 -100%
1943 207 0.000073338 207 -100%
1944 207 0.000076949 207 -100%
1945 179 0.000067473 5 174 -94%
1946 192 0.000060088 192 -100%
1947 198 0.000054965 198 -100%
1948 218 0.000063142 218 -100%
1949 219 0.000062845 219 -100%
1950 215 0.00006137 215 -100%
1951 189 0.000051307 189 -100%
1952 214 0.000056345 214 -100%
1953 190 0.000049304 190 -100%
1954 203 0.000050996 203 -100%
1955 199 0.000049563 199 -100%
1956 198 0.000048023 198 -100%
1957 185 0.000044025 185 -100%
1958 182 0.000044026 182 -100%
1959 185 0.000044493 185 -100%
1960 166 0.000039963 166 -100%
1961 165 0.000039833 165 -100%
1962 141 0.000034941 141 -100%
1963 154 0.000038907 154 -100%
1964 164 0.000042185 164 -100%
1965 112 0.000030893 112 -100%
1966 161 0.000046322 161 -100%
1967 126 0.000037115 126 -100%
1968 146 0.000043216 146 -100%
1969 158 0.000045463 158 -100%
1970 180 0.00004991 180 -100%
1971 199 0.000057978 199 -100%
1972 145 0.000046134 145 -100%
1973 175 0.000058007 175 -100%
1974 167 0.000054934 167 -100%
1975 201 0.00006657 201 -100%
1976 202 0.000066572 202 -100%
1977 218 0.000068629 218 -100%
1978 257 0.000080974 257 -100%
1979 262 0.00007875 262 -100%
1980 329 0.000095514 329 -100%
1981 395 0.000114182 395 -100%
1982 423 0.000120583 423 -100%
1983 455 0.000131376 6 449 -97%
1984 520 0.00014905 520 -100%
1985 488 0.000136729 10 478 -96%
1986 487 0.00013691 8 479 -97%
1987 480 0.000133126 480 -100%
1988 516 0.000139647 7 509 -97%
1989 617 0.000160491 617 -100%
1990 852 0.000215561 6 846 -99%
1991 1061 0.000272382 7 1054 -99%
1992 1164 0.000303025 1164 -100%
1993 1143 0.000303161 1143 -100%
1994 1117 0.000300458 5 1112 -99%
1995 1066 0.000291085 1066 -100%
1996 1113 0.000305166 7 1106 -99%
1997 1316 0.000362959 5 1311 -99%
1998 1365 0.000371105 1365 -100%
1999 1623 0.000439377 1623 -100%
2000 2026 0.000535992 2026 -100%
2001 2100 0.000560989 7 2093 -99%
2002 2240 0.000599204 8 2232 -99%
2003 2227 0.000585695 10 2217 -99%
2004 2508 0.000656386 19 2489 -98%
2005 2725 0.000708741 7 2718 -99%
2006 2847 0.000719632 8 2839 -99%
2007 3186 0.000796962 15 3171 -99%
2008 3160 0.000803935 10 3150 -99%
2009 3446 0.000902053 9 3437 -99%
2010 3701 0.001001424 12 3689 -99%
2011 4184 0.001143859 16 4168 -99%
2012 4438 0.001213441 12 4426 -99%
2013 4759 0.001305385 14 4745 -99%
2014 5230 0.001411082 20 5210 -99%
2015 5757 0.001555562 18 5739 -99%
2016 5657 0.001541964 23 5634 -99%
2017 5427 0.001517535 28 5399 -99%
2018 5657 0.001608978 29 5628 -99%
2019 5436 0.00156615 36 5400 -99%
2020 5226 0.0015644 28 5198 -99%
2021 5387 0.001590047 35 5352 -99%
2022 4951 0.001463436 27 4924 -99%
2023 5157 0.001557443 34 5123 -99%
2024 4916 0.001476941 28 4888 -99%

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