Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Oz” in the USA?

Number of people named “Oz” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Oz” by birth year

This chart shows how “Oz” 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
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 -100%
2002 19 0.000005083 19 -100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 -100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2006 19 0.000004803 19 -100%
2007 18 0.000004503 18 -100%
2008 23 0.000005851 23 -100%
2009 21 0.000005497 21 -100%
2010 27 0.000007306 27 -100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 -100%
2012 21 0.000005742 21 -100%
2013 23 0.000006309 23 -100%
2014 28 0.000007555 28 -100%
2015 24 0.000006485 24 -100%
2016 28 0.000007632 28 -100%
2017 31 0.000008668 31 -100%
2018 39 0.000011092 39 -100%
2019 45 0.000012965 45 -100%
2020 34 0.000010178 34 -100%
2021 37 0.000010921 37 -100%
2022 35 0.000010345 35 -100%
2023 40 0.00001208 40 -100%
2024 40 0.000012017 40 -100%

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