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How popular is “Patton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Patton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Patton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Patton” 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
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 -100%
1945 15 0.000005654 15 -100%
1946 12 0.000003756 12 -100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 -100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 -100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 -100%
1993 17 0.000004509 17 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 -100%
1997 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 -100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 -100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 -100%
2001 24 0.000006411 24 -100%
2002 21 0.000005618 5 16 -52%
2003 31 0.000008153 31 -100%
2004 26 0.000006805 6 20 -54%
2005 37 0.000009623 37 -100%
2006 29 0.00000733 29 -100%
2007 34 0.000008505 7 27 -59%
2008 35 0.000008904 7 28 -60%
2009 37 0.000009685 5 32 -73%
2010 50 0.000013529 5 45 -80%
2011 57 0.000015583 7 50 -75%
2012 54 0.000014765 6 48 -78%
2013 62 0.000017006 5 57 -84%
2014 58 0.000015649 7 51 -76%
2015 77 0.000020806 7 70 -82%
2016 74 0.000020171 6 68 -84%
2017 69 0.000019294 69 -100%
2018 61 0.00001735 61 -100%
2019 67 0.000019303 5 62 -85%
2020 56 0.000016764 56 -100%
2021 60 0.00001771 8 52 -73%
2022 54 0.000015962 54 -100%
2023 53 0.000016006 7 46 -74%
2024 61 0.000018327 61 -100%

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