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How popular is “Oakes” in the USA?

Number of people named “Oakes” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Oakes” by birth year

This chart shows how “Oakes” 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
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 -100%
2014 13 0.000003507 13 -100%
2015 12 0.000003242 12 -100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 -100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 -100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 -100%
2019 17 0.000004898 17 -100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 -100%
2021 22 0.000006494 22 -100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 -100%
2023 28 0.000008456 28 -100%
2024 41 0.000012318 41 -100%

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