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How popular is “Paris” in the USA?

Number of people named “Paris” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Paris” by birth year

This chart shows how “Paris” 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
1881 10 0.000051897 10 -100%
1882 11 0.000049654 11 -100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 -100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1886 10 0.000039167 10 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 -100%
1890 13 0.000043132 13 -100%
1892 11 0.000032897 11 -100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 13 0.000037035 13 -100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 -100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 -100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 -100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 -100%
1908 12 0.000024558 12 -100%
1909 14 0.000027385 14 -100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 -100%
1912 22 0.000022266 22 -100%
1913 22 0.000019347 22 -100%
1914 27 0.000019063 27 -100%
1915 29 0.000015826 29 -100%
1916 31 0.000016026 31 -100%
1917 46 0.000022923 8 38 -65%
1918 52 0.000023951 7 45 -73%
1919 52 0.000024642 8 44 -69%
1920 49 0.000021656 5 44 -80%
1921 29 0.000012422 29 -100%
1922 40 0.000017474 40 -100%
1923 68 0.000029533 6 62 -82%
1924 45 0.000018895 9 36 -60%
1925 28 0.000012 28 -100%
1926 38 0.000016551 9 29 -53%
1927 37 0.000015953 37 -100%
1928 29 0.000012827 29 -100%
1929 32 0.000014597 32 -100%
1930 30 0.000013494 6 24 -60%
1931 35 0.000016632 7 28 -60%
1932 26 0.000012315 26 -100%
1933 22 0.000011003 22 -100%
1934 29 0.000013964 29 -100%
1935 20 0.00000957 20 -100%
1936 23 0.000011071 23 -100%
1937 19 0.000008917 19 -100%
1938 31 0.000014011 31 -100%
1939 26 0.0000118 26 -100%
1940 18 0.000007817 18 -100%
1941 24 0.00000985 7 17 -42%
1942 35 0.000012812 5 30 -71%
1943 47 0.000016652 9 38 -62%
1944 43 0.000015985 10 33 -53%
1945 39 0.000014701 39 -100%
1946 38 0.000011892 9 29 -53%
1947 40 0.000011104 8 32 -60%
1948 51 0.000014772 10 41 -61%
1949 34 0.000009757 10 24 -41%
1950 38 0.000010847 12 26 -37%
1951 50 0.000013573 11 39 -56%
1952 35 0.000009215 6 29 -66%
1953 43 0.000011158 16 27 -26%
1954 47 0.000011807 20 27 -15%
1955 58 0.000014446 26 32 -10%
1956 112 0.000027164 35 77 -38%
1957 82 0.000019514 32 50 -22%
1958 68 0.000016449 22 46 -35%
1959 94 0.000022607 45 49 -4%
1960 119 0.000028648 56 63 -6%
1961 140 0.000033798 77 63 10%
1962 136 0.000033702 77 59 13%
1963 129 0.000032591 68 61 5%
1964 137 0.00003524 67 70 -2%
1965 125 0.000034478 66 59 6%
1966 98 0.000028196 39 59 -20%
1967 113 0.000033285 49 64 -13%
1968 106 0.000031376 44 62 -17%
1969 125 0.000035968 59 66 -6%
1970 183 0.000050742 63 120 -31%
1971 184 0.000053608 56 128 -39%
1972 144 0.000045816 44 100 -39%
1973 98 0.000032484 45 53 -8%
1974 127 0.000041776 51 76 -20%
1975 112 0.000037094 34 78 -39%
1976 123 0.000040537 48 75 -22%
1977 128 0.000040296 50 78 -22%
1978 112 0.000035288 51 61 -9%
1979 150 0.000045086 58 92 -23%
1980 175 0.000050806 66 109 -25%
1981 189 0.000054634 83 106 -12%
1982 236 0.000067276 110 126 -7%
1983 210 0.000060635 109 101 4%
1984 263 0.000075385 138 125 5%
1985 348 0.000097503 204 144 17%
1986 438 0.000123135 295 143 35%
1987 487 0.000135067 315 172 29%
1988 471 0.000127468 293 178 24%
1989 597 0.000155289 367 230 23%
1990 672 0.00017002 439 233 31%
1991 780 0.000200243 483 297 24%
1992 804 0.000209306 529 275 32%
1993 838 0.000222265 571 267 36%
1994 729 0.000196091 510 219 40%
1995 678 0.000185137 474 204 40%
1996 635 0.000174106 433 202 36%
1997 669 0.000184514 492 177 47%
1998 768 0.000208797 565 203 47%
1999 743 0.000201144 570 173 53%
2000 783 0.000207148 585 198 49%
2001 685 0.000182989 542 143 58%
2002 746 0.000199556 617 129 65%
2003 1277 0.000335848 1160 117 82%
2004 2246 0.000587816 2150 96 91%
2005 1784 0.000463998 1694 90 90%
2006 1352 0.000341743 1265 87 87%
2007 937 0.000234386 867 70 85%
2008 764 0.000194369 688 76 80%
2009 838 0.000219362 777 61 85%
2010 1062 0.000287358 984 78 85%
2011 1014 0.000277216 940 74 85%
2012 1272 0.000347791 1185 87 86%
2013 1350 0.000370303 1243 107 84%
2014 1327 0.000358032 1231 96 86%
2015 1302 0.000351805 1218 84 87%
2016 1242 0.00033854 1161 81 87%
2017 1164 0.000325486 1090 74 87%
2018 1067 0.000303479 989 78 85%
2019 991 0.000285514 917 74 85%
2020 816 0.000244269 748 68 83%
2021 768 0.000226686 704 64 83%
2022 704 0.000208091 642 62 82%
2023 687 0.000207478 621 66 81%
2024 685 0.000205798 633 52 85%

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