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How popular is “Patsy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Patsy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Patsy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Patsy” 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 15 0.000074448 15 100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 100%
1882 17 0.000076738 17 100%
1883 20 0.000092189 20 100%
1884 21 0.000086256 21 100%
1885 21 0.00008719 21 100%
1886 25 0.000097918 20 5 60%
1887 20 0.000080843 20 100%
1888 22 0.000073462 22 100%
1889 25 0.000086521 25 100%
1890 15 0.000049768 15 100%
1891 22 0.000076742 22 100%
1892 20 0.000059813 20 100%
1893 22 0.000067646 22 100%
1894 31 0.000091529 31 100%
1895 27 0.000076919 21 6 56%
1896 23 0.000064339 23 100%
1897 22 0.000063408 22 100%
1898 41 0.000107483 32 9 56%
1899 27 0.000079591 21 6 56%
1900 61 0.000135478 49 12 61%
1901 42 0.000121453 29 13 38%
1902 44 0.000113774 34 10 55%
1903 36 0.000094439 20 16 11%
1904 48 0.000118964 31 17 29%
1905 70 0.000165125 41 29 17%
1906 50 0.000116699 41 9 64%
1907 56 0.000120329 40 16 43%
1908 77 0.000157577 50 27 30%
1909 72 0.000140838 50 22 39%
1910 99 0.000167595 73 26 47%
1911 142 0.000220402 68 74 -4%
1912 218 0.000220634 99 119 -9%
1913 212 0.000186438 83 129 -22%
1914 268 0.00018922 94 174 -30%
1915 368 0.000200827 128 240 -30%
1916 381 0.000196959 125 256 -34%
1917 437 0.000217765 191 246 -13%
1918 459 0.000211412 177 282 -23%
1919 467 0.000221301 168 299 -28%
1920 482 0.000213025 195 287 -19%
1921 560 0.00023988 236 324 -16%
1922 584 0.000255116 277 307 -5%
1923 630 0.000273618 334 296 6%
1924 819 0.000343885 520 299 27%
1925 994 0.000426006 706 288 42%
1926 1256 0.000547061 993 263 58%
1927 1601 0.000690277 1302 299 63%
1928 1903 0.000841686 1623 280 71%
1929 2294 0.001046456 2042 252 78%
1930 2762 0.001242304 2544 218 84%
1931 3090 0.00146836 2869 221 86%
1932 3431 0.001625072 3254 177 90%
1933 3614 0.0018075 3451 163 91%
1934 3877 0.0018668 3750 127 93%
1935 3921 0.001876166 3797 124 94%
1936 4312 0.002075494 4196 116 95%
1937 4340 0.002036918 4243 97 96%
1938 4353 0.001967392 4261 92 96%
1939 4193 0.001902932 4110 83 96%
1940 4156 0.00180485 4078 78 96%
1941 4868 0.001998009 4788 80 97%
1942 4626 0.001693378 4559 67 97%
1943 4423 0.001567018 4355 68 97%
1944 3777 0.001404048 3729 48 97%
1945 3398 0.001280858 3350 48 97%
1946 4065 0.001272178 4016 49 98%
1947 4416 0.001225876 4344 72 97%
1948 3774 0.001093115 3714 60 97%
1949 3400 0.000975672 3347 53 97%
1950 2969 0.000847473 2930 39 97%
1951 2938 0.000797559 2905 33 98%
1952 2860 0.000753027 2826 34 98%
1953 2637 0.000684287 2591 46 97%
1954 2322 0.000583313 2279 43 96%
1955 2059 0.000512817 2013 46 96%
1956 1835 0.00044506 1799 36 96%
1957 1646 0.000391705 1609 37 96%
1958 1473 0.000356322 1453 20 97%
1959 1352 0.000325157 1329 23 97%
1960 1139 0.000274206 1107 32 94%
1961 1048 0.000252999 1017 31 94%
1962 918 0.000227488 898 20 96%
1963 918 0.000231924 892 26 94%
1964 844 0.0002171 817 27 94%
1965 601 0.000165773 576 25 92%
1966 509 0.000146447 498 11 96%
1967 469 0.000138149 452 17 93%
1968 394 0.000116623 367 27 86%
1969 312 0.000089776 295 17 89%
1970 334 0.00009261 322 12 93%
1971 276 0.000080411 264 12 91%
1972 221 0.000070315 214 7 94%
1973 213 0.000070603 203 10 91%
1974 196 0.000064474 186 10 90%
1975 156 0.000051666 143 13 83%
1976 130 0.000042843 122 8 88%
1977 103 0.000032426 96 7 86%
1978 100 0.000031507 100 100%
1979 101 0.000030358 96 5 90%
1980 90 0.000026129 84 6 87%
1981 100 0.000028907 94 6 88%
1982 82 0.000023375 76 6 85%
1983 87 0.00002512 79 8 82%
1984 74 0.000021211 67 7 81%
1985 86 0.000024096 81 5 88%
1986 87 0.000024458 82 5 89%
1987 83 0.00002302 83 100%
1988 109 0.000029499 102 7 87%
1989 96 0.000024971 96 100%
1990 110 0.000027831 110 100%
1991 109 0.000027983 103 6 89%
1992 83 0.000021607 78 5 88%
1993 78 0.000020688 78 100%
1994 78 0.000020981 78 100%
1995 55 0.000015018 55 100%
1996 56 0.000015354 56 100%
1997 44 0.000012135 44 100%
1998 47 0.000012778 47 100%
1999 41 0.000011099 41 100%
2000 30 0.000007937 30 100%
2001 37 0.000009884 37 100%
2002 30 0.000008025 30 100%
2003 46 0.000012098 46 100%
2004 13 0.000003402 13 100%
2005 25 0.000006502 25 100%
2006 24 0.000006066 24 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 21 0.000005343 21 100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2012 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 100%
2015 16 0.000004323 16 100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 100%
2021 20 0.000005903 20 100%
2022 17 0.000005025 17 100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 100%
2024 17 0.000005107 17 100%

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