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How popular is “Olsen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Olsen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Olsen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Olsen” 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
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2012 19 0.000005195 19 -100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 -100%
2014 13 0.000003507 13 -100%
2015 22 0.000005944 22 -100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 -100%
2017 28 0.00000783 28 -100%
2018 18 0.00000512 18 -100%
2019 24 0.000006915 24 -100%
2020 38 0.000011375 5 33 -74%
2021 31 0.00000915 31 -100%
2022 34 0.00001005 34 -100%
2023 44 0.000013288 44 -100%
2024 64 0.000019228 64 -100%

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