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How popular is “Oscar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Oscar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Oscar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Oscar” 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 544 0.002699966 544 -100%
1881 530 0.00275056 530 -100%
1882 625 0.00282125 625 -100%
1883 607 0.002797931 607 -100%
1884 615 0.002526072 615 -100%
1885 623 0.002586629 623 -100%
1886 650 0.002545865 5 645 -98%
1887 574 0.002320204 574 -100%
1888 647 0.002160455 647 -100%
1889 577 0.001996913 5 572 -98%
1890 635 0.002106828 7 628 -98%
1891 551 0.001922051 551 -100%
1892 639 0.001911034 5 634 -98%
1893 574 0.001764943 574 -100%
1894 601 0.001774484 601 -100%
1895 549 0.001564013 549 -100%
1896 539 0.00150776 539 -100%
1897 543 0.001565035 543 -100%
1898 551 0.001444469 5 546 -98%
1899 447 0.001317675 447 -100%
1900 568 0.001261499 5 563 -98%
1901 428 0.001237667 6 422 -97%
1902 397 0.001026548 397 -100%
1903 427 0.001120147 427 -100%
1904 442 0.001095456 442 -100%
1905 436 0.001028491 436 -100%
1906 412 0.000961604 412 -100%
1907 483 0.001037839 483 -100%
1908 476 0.000974114 476 -100%
1909 466 0.000911538 7 459 -97%
1910 505 0.000854902 505 -100%
1911 636 0.000987152 636 -100%
1912 1164 0.001178064 7 1157 -99%
1913 1256 0.001104555 7 1249 -99%
1914 1561 0.001102133 8 1553 -99%
1915 1802 0.000983396 14 1788 -98%
1916 1924 0.000994615 8 1916 -99%
1917 1970 0.000981687 9 1961 -99%
1918 2124 0.000978301 11 2113 -99%
1919 1996 0.000945862 5 1991 -99%
1920 2018 0.000891877 12 2006 -99%
1921 1996 0.000854999 18 1978 -98%
1922 2020 0.000882421 13 2007 -99%
1923 1889 0.000820419 9 1880 -99%
1924 1826 0.000766708 7 1819 -99%
1925 1764 0.00075601 10 1754 -99%
1926 1728 0.000752644 13 1715 -98%
1927 1649 0.000710973 14 1635 -98%
1928 1473 0.000651499 9 1464 -99%
1929 1501 0.000684712 19 1482 -97%
1930 1484 0.00066748 17 1467 -98%
1931 1355 0.000643893 21 1334 -97%
1932 1269 0.000601054 14 1255 -98%
1933 1122 0.000561155 11 1111 -98%
1934 1106 0.000532546 11 1095 -98%
1935 1098 0.000525384 7 1091 -99%
1936 1021 0.000491438 13 1008 -97%
1937 995 0.000466989 7 988 -99%
1938 1035 0.000467781 11 1024 -98%
1939 1008 0.000457466 8 1000 -98%
1940 943 0.000409522 6 937 -99%
1941 1029 0.00042234 8 1021 -98%
1942 964 0.000352879 6 958 -99%
1943 1083 0.000383694 10 1073 -98%
1944 917 0.000340882 6 911 -99%
1945 946 0.00035659 7 939 -99%
1946 1027 0.000321409 10 1017 -98%
1947 1119 0.000310633 8 1111 -99%
1948 1106 0.000320346 8 1098 -99%
1949 1130 0.000324268 6 1124 -99%
1950 1112 0.00031741 9 1103 -98%
1951 1074 0.000291552 7 1067 -99%
1952 1096 0.000288573 9 1087 -98%
1953 1204 0.000312432 8 1196 -99%
1954 1279 0.0003213 11 1268 -98%
1955 1161 0.00028916 7 1154 -99%
1956 1139 0.000276253 6 1133 -99%
1957 1209 0.00028771 8 1201 -99%
1958 1076 0.000260287 7 1069 -99%
1959 1090 0.000262146 5 1085 -99%
1960 1068 0.000257113 1068 -100%
1961 1041 0.00025131 1041 -100%
1962 1012 0.000250782 5 1007 -99%
1963 1027 0.000259461 6 1021 -99%
1964 1011 0.000260057 11 1000 -98%
1965 997 0.000275 8 989 -98%
1966 943 0.000271316 943 -100%
1967 939 0.000276592 5 934 -99%
1968 902 0.000266989 902 -100%
1969 1015 0.000292059 10 1005 -98%
1970 1051 0.000291417 8 1043 -98%
1971 1078 0.00031407 12 1066 -98%
1972 1121 0.000356666 10 1111 -98%
1973 1076 0.000356659 8 1068 -99%
1974 1207 0.00039704 8 1199 -99%
1975 1247 0.000412997 11 1236 -98%
1976 1244 0.000409979 13 1231 -98%
1977 1285 0.000404534 11 1274 -98%
1978 1325 0.000417471 14 1311 -98%
1979 1322 0.000397355 11 1311 -98%
1980 1411 0.000409638 15 1396 -98%
1981 1473 0.000425799 9 1464 -99%
1982 1497 0.000426743 11 1486 -99%
1983 1386 0.000400192 16 1370 -98%
1984 1440 0.000412755 19 1421 -97%
1985 1603 0.000449132 11 1592 -99%
1986 1584 0.000445309 12 1572 -98%
1987 1676 0.000464831 15 1661 -98%
1988 1740 0.000470901 7 1733 -99%
1989 1975 0.000513728 10 1965 -99%
1990 2350 0.000594564 22 2328 -98%
1991 2465 0.00063282 21 2444 -98%
1992 2606 0.000678421 19 2587 -99%
1993 2867 0.000760421 20 2847 -99%
1994 2871 0.000772261 24 2847 -98%
1995 2748 0.000750378 18 2730 -99%
1996 3014 0.000826388 14 3000 -99%
1997 2987 0.00082383 17 2970 -99%
1998 3017 0.000820237 11 3006 -99%
1999 3144 0.000851141 18 3126 -99%
2000 3186 0.000842879 8 3178 -99%
2001 3203 0.000855642 8 3195 -100%
2002 3250 0.000869381 17 3233 -99%
2003 3315 0.000871836 14 3301 -99%
2004 3363 0.000880154 15 3348 -99%
2005 3468 0.000901987 7 3461 -100%
2006 3607 0.000911736 6 3601 -100%
2007 3556 0.000889515 8 3548 -100%
2008 3563 0.000906462 3563 -100%
2009 3124 0.000817764 7 3117 -100%
2010 2670 0.000722454 5 2665 -100%
2011 2378 0.000650119 2378 -100%
2012 2197 0.000600705 2197 -100%
2013 2242 0.000614977 2242 -100%
2014 2321 0.000626218 2321 -100%
2015 2304 0.000622549 5 2299 -100%
2016 2261 0.000616295 2261 -100%
2017 2048 0.000572676 2048 -100%
2018 1956 0.00055633 1956 -100%
2019 1891 0.00054481 1891 -100%
2020 1766 0.000528651 1766 -100%
2021 1697 0.000500893 1697 -100%
2022 1890 0.000558653 1890 -100%
2023 1701 0.000513712 1701 -100%
2024 1656 0.000497521 1656 -100%

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