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How popular is “Parker” in the USA?

Number of people named “Parker” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Parker” by birth year

This chart shows how “Parker” 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 14 0.000069484 14 -100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 -100%
1882 14 0.000063196 14 -100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 -100%
1884 9 0.000036967 9 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1886 11 0.000043084 11 -100%
1887 14 0.00005659 14 -100%
1888 11 0.000036731 11 -100%
1889 13 0.000044991 13 -100%
1890 12 0.000039814 12 -100%
1891 15 0.000052324 15 -100%
1892 10 0.000029907 10 -100%
1893 13 0.000039973 13 -100%
1894 20 0.000059051 20 -100%
1895 15 0.000042733 15 -100%
1896 16 0.000044757 16 -100%
1897 10 0.000028822 10 -100%
1898 14 0.000036702 14 -100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 -100%
1900 17 0.000037756 17 -100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1903 16 0.000041973 16 -100%
1904 25 0.00006196 25 -100%
1905 14 0.000033025 14 -100%
1906 16 0.000037344 16 -100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 -100%
1908 13 0.000026604 13 -100%
1909 17 0.000033254 17 -100%
1910 15 0.000025393 15 -100%
1911 15 0.000023282 15 -100%
1912 34 0.000034411 34 -100%
1913 52 0.00004573 52 -100%
1914 55 0.000038832 55 -100%
1915 72 0.000039292 72 -100%
1916 62 0.000032051 62 -100%
1917 67 0.000033387 67 -100%
1918 82 0.000037769 82 -100%
1919 92 0.000043597 92 -100%
1920 64 0.000028286 64 -100%
1921 66 0.000028272 66 -100%
1922 76 0.0000332 76 -100%
1923 72 0.000031271 72 -100%
1924 78 0.000032751 78 -100%
1925 76 0.000032572 76 -100%
1926 61 0.000026569 61 -100%
1927 76 0.000032768 76 -100%
1928 74 0.00003273 74 -100%
1929 85 0.000038775 85 -100%
1930 50 0.000022489 50 -100%
1931 56 0.000026611 56 -100%
1932 67 0.000031734 67 -100%
1933 59 0.000029508 59 -100%
1934 59 0.000028409 59 -100%
1935 53 0.00002536 53 -100%
1936 51 0.000024548 51 -100%
1937 46 0.000021589 46 -100%
1938 56 0.00002531 56 -100%
1939 62 0.000028138 62 -100%
1940 64 0.000027794 64 -100%
1941 54 0.000022164 54 -100%
1942 50 0.000018303 50 -100%
1943 63 0.00002232 63 -100%
1944 43 0.000015985 43 -100%
1945 52 0.000019601 52 -100%
1946 57 0.000017839 57 -100%
1947 75 0.00002082 75 -100%
1948 69 0.000019985 69 -100%
1949 51 0.000014635 51 -100%
1950 61 0.000017412 61 -100%
1951 62 0.000016831 62 -100%
1952 60 0.000015798 60 -100%
1953 57 0.000014791 57 -100%
1954 60 0.000015073 60 -100%
1955 51 0.000012702 51 -100%
1956 54 0.000013097 54 -100%
1957 67 0.000015944 67 -100%
1958 40 0.000009676 40 -100%
1959 56 0.000013468 56 -100%
1960 54 0.000013 54 -100%
1961 55 0.000013278 55 -100%
1962 57 0.000014125 57 -100%
1963 55 0.000013895 55 -100%
1964 51 0.000013119 51 -100%
1965 60 0.00001655 60 -100%
1966 38 0.000010933 38 -100%
1967 38 0.000011193 38 -100%
1968 63 0.000018648 63 -100%
1969 53 0.00001525 53 -100%
1970 69 0.000019132 8 61 -77%
1971 66 0.000019229 66 -100%
1972 47 0.000014954 47 -100%
1973 32 0.000010607 32 -100%
1974 28 0.000009211 28 -100%
1975 43 0.000014241 43 -100%
1976 48 0.000015819 48 -100%
1977 71 0.000022352 5 66 -86%
1978 113 0.000035603 5 108 -91%
1979 134 0.000040277 134 -100%
1980 138 0.000040064 5 133 -93%
1981 144 0.000041626 9 135 -88%
1982 158 0.00004504 6 152 -92%
1983 217 0.000062656 8 209 -93%
1984 255 0.000073092 11 244 -91%
1985 324 0.000090779 14 310 -91%
1986 351 0.000098677 13 338 -93%
1987 348 0.000096516 15 333 -91%
1988 430 0.000116372 12 418 -94%
1989 544 0.000141503 15 529 -94%
1990 744 0.000188236 20 724 -95%
1991 920 0.000236184 36 884 -92%
1992 1171 0.000304847 53 1118 -91%
1993 1210 0.000320931 54 1156 -91%
1994 1303 0.00035049 53 1250 -92%
1995 1441 0.000393484 73 1368 -90%
1996 1895 0.000519577 98 1797 -90%
1997 2430 0.000670206 132 2298 -89%
1998 2808 0.000763415 179 2629 -87%
1999 3259 0.000882273 248 3011 -85%
2000 3353 0.00088706 254 3099 -85%
2001 3503 0.000935783 316 3187 -82%
2002 3414 0.000913252 315 3099 -82%
2003 3496 0.000919439 310 3186 -82%
2004 3477 0.00090999 414 3063 -76%
2005 3788 0.000985215 384 3404 -80%
2006 4120 0.001041406 453 3667 -78%
2007 4581 0.001145914 505 4076 -78%
2008 4938 0.001256276 617 4321 -75%
2009 5226 0.001368 600 4626 -77%
2010 5384 0.001456813 652 4732 -76%
2011 6169 0.001686537 873 5296 -72%
2012 6394 0.001748252 1024 5370 -68%
2013 6874 0.001885526 1202 5672 -65%
2014 7125 0.001922363 1405 5720 -61%
2015 6865 0.001854948 1447 5418 -58%
2016 6211 0.001692971 1482 4729 -52%
2017 5875 0.001642808 1494 4381 -49%
2018 5770 0.001641118 1764 4006 -39%
2019 5883 0.001694933 1977 3906 -33%
2020 5958 0.001783524 2147 3811 -28%
2021 6262 0.001848316 2420 3842 -23%
2022 6265 0.001851833 2407 3858 -23%
2023 6098 0.001841631 2296 3802 -25%
2024 6122 0.001839266 2517 3605 -18%

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