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How popular is “Olympia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Olympia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Olympia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Olympia” 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
1897 9 0.00002594 9 100%
1898 9 0.000023594 9 100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1901 10 0.000028917 10 100%
1903 9 0.00002361 9 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 100%
1908 12 0.000024558 12 100%
1909 11 0.000021517 11 100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 100%
1911 15 0.000023282 15 100%
1912 14 0.000014169 14 100%
1913 35 0.00003078 35 100%
1914 32 0.000022593 32 100%
1915 41 0.000022375 41 100%
1916 39 0.000020161 39 100%
1917 65 0.000032391 65 100%
1918 58 0.000026714 58 100%
1919 38 0.000018007 38 100%
1920 53 0.000023424 53 100%
1921 58 0.000024845 58 100%
1922 53 0.000023153 53 100%
1923 56 0.000024322 56 100%
1924 43 0.000018055 43 100%
1925 58 0.000024857 58 100%
1926 42 0.000018293 42 100%
1927 37 0.000015953 37 100%
1928 46 0.000020346 46 100%
1929 31 0.000014141 31 100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 100%
1931 32 0.000015206 32 100%
1932 21 0.000009947 21 100%
1933 19 0.000009503 19 100%
1934 20 0.00000963 20 100%
1935 18 0.000008613 18 100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 100%
1937 17 0.000007979 17 100%
1938 15 0.000006779 15 100%
1939 20 0.000009077 20 100%
1940 12 0.000005211 12 100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 100%
1942 19 0.000006955 19 100%
1943 15 0.000005314 15 100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 100%
1947 18 0.000004997 18 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1949 13 0.000003731 13 100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 100%
1955 17 0.000004234 17 100%
1956 26 0.000006306 26 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 16 0.00000387 16 100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 100%
1960 18 0.000004333 18 100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1968 20 0.00000592 20 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 100%
1972 21 0.000006682 21 100%
1973 48 0.00001591 48 100%
1974 44 0.000014474 44 100%
1975 55 0.000018216 55 100%
1976 60 0.000019774 60 100%
1977 59 0.000018574 59 100%
1978 47 0.000014808 47 100%
1979 21 0.000006312 21 100%
1980 40 0.000011613 40 100%
1981 104 0.000030063 104 100%
1982 57 0.000016249 57 100%
1983 24 0.00000693 24 100%
1984 36 0.000010319 36 100%
1985 23 0.000006444 23 100%
1986 17 0.000004779 17 100%
1987 30 0.00000832 30 100%
1988 37 0.000010013 37 100%
1989 28 0.000007283 28 100%
1990 39 0.000009867 39 100%
1991 39 0.000010012 39 100%
1992 26 0.000006769 26 100%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 100%
1994 20 0.00000538 20 100%
1995 20 0.000005461 20 100%
1996 31 0.0000085 31 100%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 100%
1998 27 0.000007341 27 100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 100%
2000 18 0.000004762 18 100%
2001 23 0.000006144 23 100%
2002 15 0.000004013 15 100%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 100%
2004 26 0.000006805 26 100%
2005 18 0.000004682 18 100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 100%
2007 24 0.000006003 24 100%
2008 24 0.000006106 24 100%
2009 21 0.000005497 21 100%
2010 29 0.000007847 29 100%
2011 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2012 29 0.000007929 29 100%
2013 38 0.000010423 38 100%
2014 31 0.000008364 31 100%
2015 40 0.000010808 40 100%
2016 51 0.000013901 51 100%
2017 62 0.000017337 62 100%
2018 71 0.000020194 71 100%
2019 71 0.000020456 71 100%
2020 70 0.000020954 70 100%
2021 78 0.000023023 78 100%
2022 71 0.000020986 71 100%
2023 68 0.000020536 68 100%
2024 73 0.000021932 73 100%

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