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How popular is “Paisley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Paisley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Paisley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Paisley” 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
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 100%
1978 16 0.000005041 16 100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 100%
1986 23 0.000006466 23 100%
1987 28 0.000007766 28 100%
1988 34 0.000009202 34 100%
1989 39 0.000010145 39 100%
1990 51 0.000012903 51 100%
1991 58 0.00001489 58 100%
1992 81 0.000021087 81 100%
1993 93 0.000024667 93 100%
1994 83 0.000022326 83 100%
1995 69 0.000018841 69 100%
1996 56 0.000015354 56 100%
1997 50 0.00001379 50 100%
1998 54 0.000014681 54 100%
1999 59 0.000015972 59 100%
2000 89 0.000023546 89 100%
2001 100 0.000026714 100 100%
2002 109 0.000029158 109 100%
2003 99 0.000026037 99 100%
2004 183 0.000047894 183 100%
2005 228 0.0000593 228 100%
2006 327 0.000082655 327 100%
2007 491 0.000122821 491 100%
2008 700 0.000178087 700 100%
2009 1023 0.000267789 1023 100%
2010 1328 0.000359333 1328 100%
2011 1655 0.000452459 1644 11 99%
2012 2923 0.000799209 2923 100%
2013 3612 0.000990765 3605 7 100%
2014 4507 0.001216013 4501 6 100%
2015 5089 0.001375066 5089 100%
2016 4887 0.00133208 4882 5 100%
2017 4969 0.001389466 4957 12 100%
2018 4373 0.001243779 4365 8 100%
2019 4284 0.00123425 4277 7 100%
2020 4386 0.001312947 4377 9 100%
2021 4301 0.0012695 4295 6 100%
2022 4048 0.001196523 4048 100%
2023 3748 0.001131917 3743 5 100%
2024 3548 0.001065945 3542 6 100%

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