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How popular is “October” in the USA?

Number of people named “October” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “October” by birth year

This chart shows how “October” 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
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 100%
1977 22 0.000006926 22 100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 100%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 100%
2007 57 0.000014258 57 100%
2008 72 0.000018318 72 100%
2009 60 0.000015706 60 100%
2010 64 0.000017317 64 100%
2011 54 0.000014763 54 100%
2012 56 0.000015312 56 100%
2013 44 0.000012069 44 100%
2014 46 0.000012411 46 100%
2015 41 0.000011078 41 100%
2016 62 0.0000169 56 6 81%
2017 58 0.000016218 52 6 79%
2018 69 0.000019625 63 6 83%
2019 62 0.000017863 51 11 65%
2020 62 0.00001856 56 6 81%
2021 60 0.00001771 52 8 73%
2022 76 0.000022464 65 11 71%
2023 73 0.000022046 52 21 42%
2024 55 0.000016524 43 12 56%

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