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How popular is “Oretha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Oretha” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Oretha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Oretha” 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
1910 7 0.00001185 7 100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 100%
1913 19 0.000016709 19 100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 100%
1915 13 0.000007094 13 100%
1916 15 0.000007754 15 100%
1917 19 0.000009468 19 100%
1918 27 0.000012436 27 100%
1919 28 0.000013269 28 100%
1920 38 0.000016795 38 100%
1921 33 0.000014136 33 100%
1922 28 0.000012232 28 100%
1923 23 0.000009989 23 100%
1924 28 0.000011757 28 100%
1925 33 0.000014143 33 100%
1926 40 0.000017422 40 100%
1927 18 0.000007761 18 100%
1928 23 0.000010173 23 100%
1929 16 0.000007299 16 100%
1930 30 0.000013494 30 100%
1931 25 0.00001188 25 100%
1932 23 0.000010894 23 100%
1933 21 0.000010503 21 100%
1934 18 0.000008667 18 100%
1935 20 0.00000957 20 100%
1936 32 0.000015403 32 100%
1937 14 0.000006571 14 100%
1938 26 0.000011751 26 100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 100%
1941 15 0.000006157 15 100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 100%
1943 18 0.000006377 18 100%
1944 22 0.000008178 22 100%
1945 23 0.00000867 23 100%
1946 19 0.000005946 19 100%
1947 18 0.000004997 18 100%
1948 20 0.000005793 20 100%
1949 18 0.000005165 18 100%
1950 20 0.000005709 20 100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 100%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 100%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 100%
1955 16 0.000003985 16 100%
1956 18 0.000004366 18 100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1958 25 0.000006048 25 100%
1959 20 0.00000481 20 100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 100%
1961 17 0.000004104 17 100%
1962 15 0.000003717 15 100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 100%
1964 13 0.000003344 13 100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 100%
1968 16 0.000004736 16 100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%

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