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How popular is “Oakley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Oakley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Oakley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Oakley” 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
1884 9 0.000036967 9 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1889 8 0.000027687 8 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 -100%
1898 16 0.000041945 16 -100%
1899 8 0.000023583 8 -100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 12 0.000031029 12 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 -100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 -100%
1910 13 0.000022007 13 -100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 -100%
1912 23 0.000023278 23 -100%
1913 43 0.000037815 7 36 -67%
1914 33 0.000023299 6 27 -64%
1915 43 0.000023466 43 -100%
1916 48 0.000024814 8 40 -67%
1917 50 0.000024916 50 -100%
1918 47 0.000021648 6 41 -74%
1919 52 0.000024642 52 -100%
1920 58 0.000025634 6 52 -79%
1921 46 0.000019704 46 -100%
1922 41 0.000017911 5 36 -76%
1923 53 0.000023019 6 47 -77%
1924 44 0.000018475 6 38 -73%
1925 50 0.000021429 7 43 -72%
1926 28 0.000012196 28 -100%
1927 38 0.000016384 38 -100%
1928 44 0.000019461 5 39 -77%
1929 27 0.000012317 27 -100%
1930 31 0.000013943 31 -100%
1931 26 0.000012355 26 -100%
1932 27 0.000012788 27 -100%
1933 24 0.000012003 24 -100%
1934 28 0.000013482 28 -100%
1935 34 0.000016269 34 -100%
1936 15 0.00000722 15 -100%
1937 23 0.000010795 23 -100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 -100%
1939 17 0.000007715 17 -100%
1940 21 0.00000912 21 -100%
1941 15 0.000006157 15 -100%
1942 17 0.000006223 17 -100%
1943 22 0.000007794 22 -100%
1944 17 0.00000632 17 -100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 -100%
1946 27 0.00000845 27 -100%
1947 16 0.000004442 16 -100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 -100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 -100%
1950 27 0.000007707 27 -100%
1951 14 0.0000038 14 -100%
1952 14 0.000003686 14 -100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 -100%
1957 15 0.00000357 15 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 15 0.000003717 15 -100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 -100%
1980 15 0.000004355 15 -100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 12 0.000003465 6 6 0%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 11 0.000003082 5 6 -9%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 -100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
1990 18 0.000004554 18 -100%
1991 25 0.000006418 12 13 -4%
1992 30 0.00000781 9 21 -40%
1993 36 0.000009548 10 26 -44%
1994 30 0.00000807 10 20 -33%
1995 40 0.000010923 12 28 -40%
1996 48 0.000013161 19 29 -21%
1997 49 0.000013514 16 33 -35%
1998 54 0.000014681 15 39 -44%
1999 58 0.000015702 21 37 -28%
2000 74 0.000019577 26 48 -30%
2001 68 0.000018165 18 50 -47%
2002 70 0.000018725 31 39 -11%
2003 89 0.000023407 30 59 -33%
2004 97 0.000025387 41 56 -15%
2005 106 0.000027569 41 65 -23%
2006 114 0.000028816 49 65 -14%
2007 133 0.000033269 61 72 -8%
2008 166 0.000042232 75 91 -10%
2009 231 0.000060468 92 139 -20%
2010 255 0.000068998 118 137 -7%
2011 352 0.000096233 157 195 -11%
2012 430 0.000117571 190 240 -12%
2013 565 0.000154978 274 291 -3%
2014 762 0.000205592 365 397 -4%
2015 967 0.000261287 471 496 -3%
2016 1014 0.000276392 535 479 6%
2017 1271 0.000355406 658 613 4%
2018 1434 0.000407862 796 638 11%
2019 1598 0.000460395 908 690 14%
2020 1840 0.000550803 1128 712 23%
2021 2311 0.000682124 1538 773 33%
2022 2654 0.000784479 1844 810 39%
2023 2685 0.000810885 1882 803 40%
2024 2679 0.000804867 1894 785 41%

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