Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Oak” in the USA?

Number of people named “Oak” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Oak” by birth year

This chart shows how “Oak” 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
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 -100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 -100%
2014 28 0.000007555 28 -100%
2015 25 0.000006755 25 -100%
2016 41 0.000011176 41 -100%
2017 36 0.000010067 36 -100%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 -100%
2019 47 0.000013541 47 -100%
2020 41 0.000012273 41 -100%
2021 59 0.000017415 8 51 -73%
2022 58 0.000017144 6 52 -79%
2023 76 0.000022952 8 68 -79%
2024 62 0.000018627 5 57 -84%

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