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How popular is “Opie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Opie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Opie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Opie” 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
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 12 0.000012145 7 5 17%
1914 23 0.000016239 10 13 -13%
1915 15 0.000008186 8 7 7%
1916 18 0.000009305 7 11 -22%
1917 31 0.000015448 15 16 -3%
1918 17 0.00000783 17 -100%
1919 14 0.000006634 8 6 14%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 21 0.000009174 6 15 -43%
1923 15 0.000006515 5 10 -33%
1924 16 0.000006718 6 10 -25%
1925 15 0.000006429 5 10 -33%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1928 11 0.000004865 5 6 -9%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1935 6 0.000002871 6 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 -100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 -100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 -100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 -100%
2017 20 0.000005593 20 -100%
2018 28 0.000007964 28 -100%
2019 33 0.000009508 33 -100%
2020 46 0.00001377 46 -100%
2021 41 0.000012102 41 -100%
2022 50 0.000014779 50 -100%
2023 39 0.000011778 39 -100%
2024 38 0.000011417 38 -100%

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