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How popular is “Orion” in the USA?

Number of people named “Orion” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Orion” by birth year

This chart shows how “Orion” 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
1880 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 -100%
1895 8 0.000022791 8 -100%
1896 16 0.000044757 16 -100%
1897 13 0.000037469 13 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 -100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 -100%
1912 11 0.000011133 11 -100%
1913 14 0.000012312 14 -100%
1914 16 0.000011297 16 -100%
1915 28 0.00001528 28 -100%
1916 25 0.000012924 25 -100%
1917 36 0.000017939 5 31 -72%
1918 26 0.000011975 26 -100%
1919 34 0.000016112 34 -100%
1920 33 0.000014585 33 -100%
1921 32 0.000013707 32 -100%
1922 27 0.000011795 27 -100%
1923 38 0.000016504 38 -100%
1924 30 0.000012597 30 -100%
1925 27 0.000011572 27 -100%
1926 22 0.000009582 22 -100%
1927 24 0.000010348 24 -100%
1928 29 0.000012827 29 -100%
1929 19 0.000008667 19 -100%
1930 20 0.000008996 20 -100%
1931 13 0.000006178 13 -100%
1932 16 0.000007578 16 -100%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 -100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 -100%
1935 18 0.000008613 18 -100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 -100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 -100%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 -100%
1939 20 0.000009077 20 -100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 -100%
1941 15 0.000006157 15 -100%
1942 17 0.000006223 17 -100%
1943 26 0.000009211 26 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1945 13 0.0000049 13 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 -100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 -100%
1956 16 0.000003881 16 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 -100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 -100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 -100%
1969 18 0.000005179 18 -100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 -100%
1971 32 0.000009323 32 -100%
1972 38 0.00001209 38 -100%
1973 35 0.000011601 35 -100%
1974 54 0.000017763 54 -100%
1975 58 0.000019209 58 -100%
1976 57 0.000018785 57 -100%
1977 67 0.000021092 67 -100%
1978 66 0.000020795 66 -100%
1979 81 0.000024346 81 -100%
1980 61 0.000017709 61 -100%
1981 67 0.000019368 67 -100%
1982 87 0.000024801 87 -100%
1983 76 0.000021944 76 -100%
1984 72 0.000020638 72 -100%
1985 64 0.000017932 64 -100%
1986 56 0.000015743 56 -100%
1987 83 0.00002302 83 -100%
1988 78 0.000021109 78 -100%
1989 89 0.00002315 89 -100%
1990 90 0.000022771 90 -100%
1991 122 0.00003132 5 117 -92%
1992 92 0.00002395 92 -100%
1993 116 0.000030767 8 108 -86%
1994 155 0.000041693 7 148 -91%
1995 175 0.000047786 7 168 -92%
1996 193 0.000052917 8 185 -92%
1997 204 0.000056264 9 195 -91%
1998 394 0.000107117 22 372 -89%
1999 399 0.000108017 22 377 -89%
2000 397 0.000105029 15 382 -92%
2001 420 0.000112198 16 404 -92%
2002 379 0.000101383 12 367 -94%
2003 415 0.000109144 16 399 -92%
2004 432 0.000113062 14 418 -94%
2005 440 0.000114439 13 427 -94%
2006 500 0.000126384 14 486 -94%
2007 482 0.00012057 13 469 -95%
2008 512 0.000130258 16 496 -94%
2009 530 0.000138737 11 519 -96%
2010 574 0.000155314 13 561 -95%
2011 588 0.000160753 14 574 -95%
2012 700 0.000191395 21 679 -94%
2013 773 0.000212033 14 759 -96%
2014 845 0.000227986 24 821 -94%
2015 899 0.000242913 22 877 -95%
2016 1105 0.000301197 33 1072 -94%
2017 1057 0.000295566 34 1023 -94%
2018 1186 0.000337325 34 1152 -94%
2019 1105 0.000318358 28 1077 -95%
2020 1042 0.000311922 26 1016 -95%
2021 1093 0.000322614 40 1053 -93%
2022 1041 0.000307703 21 1020 -96%
2023 890 0.000268785 23 867 -95%
2024 1093 0.000328376 32 1061 -94%

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