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How popular is “Passion” in the USA?

Number of people named “Passion” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Passion” by birth year

This chart shows how “Passion” 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
1974 34 0.000011184 34 100%
1975 34 0.000011261 34 100%
1976 30 0.000009887 30 100%
1977 25 0.00000787 25 100%
1978 24 0.000007562 24 100%
1979 18 0.00000541 18 100%
1980 24 0.000006968 24 100%
1981 27 0.000007805 27 100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 100%
1983 27 0.000007796 27 100%
1984 23 0.000006593 23 100%
1985 25 0.000007005 25 100%
1986 25 0.000007028 25 100%
1987 31 0.000008598 31 100%
1988 38 0.000010284 38 100%
1989 53 0.000013786 53 100%
1990 54 0.000013662 54 100%
1991 72 0.000018484 72 100%
1992 85 0.000022128 85 100%
1993 63 0.00001671 63 100%
1994 72 0.000019367 72 100%
1995 61 0.000016657 61 100%
1996 73 0.000020015 73 100%
1997 79 0.000021789 79 100%
1998 65 0.000017672 65 100%
1999 66 0.000017867 66 100%
2000 63 0.000016667 63 100%
2001 70 0.0000187 70 100%
2002 50 0.000013375 50 100%
2003 47 0.000012361 47 100%
2004 83 0.000021723 83 100%
2005 84 0.000021847 84 100%
2006 77 0.000019463 77 100%
2007 61 0.000015259 61 100%
2008 57 0.000014501 57 100%
2009 65 0.000017015 65 100%
2010 56 0.000015153 56 100%
2011 44 0.000012029 44 100%
2012 69 0.000018866 69 100%
2013 45 0.000012343 45 100%
2014 35 0.000009443 35 100%
2015 37 0.000009998 37 100%
2016 44 0.000011993 44 100%
2017 36 0.000010067 36 100%
2018 40 0.000011377 40 100%
2019 38 0.000010948 38 100%
2020 56 0.000016764 56 100%
2021 44 0.000012987 44 100%
2022 37 0.000010937 37 100%
2023 33 0.000009966 33 100%
2024 31 0.000009314 31 100%

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