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How popular is “Paulette” in the USA?

Number of people named “Paulette” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Paulette” by birth year

This chart shows how “Paulette” 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
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1913 13 0.000011432 13 100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 100%
1916 9 0.000004653 9 100%
1917 13 0.000006478 13 100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 100%
1920 27 0.000011933 27 100%
1921 33 0.000014136 33 100%
1922 28 0.000012232 28 100%
1923 30 0.000013029 30 100%
1924 31 0.000013016 31 100%
1925 30 0.000012857 30 100%
1926 37 0.000016116 37 100%
1927 37 0.000015953 37 100%
1928 34 0.000015038 34 100%
1929 27 0.000012317 27 100%
1930 24 0.000010795 24 100%
1931 33 0.000015682 33 100%
1932 48 0.000022735 48 100%
1933 54 0.000027007 54 100%
1934 46 0.000022149 46 100%
1935 55 0.000026317 55 100%
1936 82 0.000039469 82 100%
1937 68 0.000031915 68 100%
1938 81 0.000036609 81 100%
1939 100 0.000045384 100 100%
1940 223 0.000096843 223 100%
1941 282 0.000115743 277 5 96%
1942 963 0.000352512 963 100%
1943 1447 0.000512655 1440 7 99%
1944 1443 0.000536415 1438 5 99%
1945 1575 0.000593688 1575 100%
1946 2529 0.000791473 2520 9 99%
1947 2341 0.000649859 2334 7 99%
1948 2586 0.000749019 2579 7 99%
1949 2553 0.000732615 2553 100%
1950 1953 0.000557465 1953 100%
1951 2155 0.000585003 2148 7 99%
1952 1886 0.000496576 1886 100%
1953 1770 0.000459306 1763 7 99%
1954 1485 0.000373049 1485 100%
1955 1304 0.000324776 1298 6 99%
1956 1234 0.000299294 1234 100%
1957 1093 0.000260105 1093 100%
1958 1067 0.00025811 1067 100%
1959 956 0.000229919 956 100%
1960 854 0.000205594 854 100%
1961 774 0.000186853 774 100%
1962 741 0.000183626 741 100%
1963 858 0.000216765 858 100%
1964 843 0.000216843 838 5 99%
1965 707 0.00019501 707 100%
1966 690 0.000198524 690 100%
1967 701 0.000206486 701 100%
1968 629 0.000186182 629 100%
1969 638 0.00018358 638 100%
1970 805 0.000223207 805 100%
1971 680 0.000198115 680 100%
1972 466 0.000148266 466 100%
1973 385 0.000127615 385 100%
1974 312 0.000102632 312 100%
1975 252 0.00008346 252 100%
1976 182 0.000059981 182 100%
1977 190 0.000059814 190 100%
1978 210 0.000066165 210 100%
1979 158 0.00004749 158 100%
1980 156 0.00004529 156 100%
1981 142 0.000041048 142 100%
1982 126 0.000035918 126 100%
1983 99 0.000028585 99 100%
1984 120 0.000034396 120 100%
1985 109 0.00003054 109 100%
1986 90 0.000025302 90 100%
1987 88 0.000024406 88 100%
1988 144 0.000038971 144 100%
1989 153 0.000039798 153 100%
1990 112 0.000028337 112 100%
1991 112 0.000028753 112 100%
1992 100 0.000026033 100 100%
1993 94 0.000024932 94 100%
1994 79 0.00002125 79 100%
1995 61 0.000016657 61 100%
1996 80 0.000021935 80 100%
1997 66 0.000018203 66 100%
1998 56 0.000015225 56 100%
1999 32 0.000008663 32 100%
2000 44 0.000011641 44 100%
2001 31 0.000008281 31 100%
2002 37 0.000009898 37 100%
2003 41 0.000010783 41 100%
2004 30 0.000007852 30 100%
2005 35 0.000009103 35 100%
2006 33 0.000008341 33 100%
2007 61 0.000015259 61 100%
2008 46 0.000011703 46 100%
2009 45 0.00001178 45 100%
2010 140 0.000037881 140 100%
2011 130 0.000035541 130 100%
2012 85 0.000023241 85 100%
2013 95 0.000026058 95 100%
2014 84 0.000022664 84 100%
2015 96 0.00002594 96 100%
2016 78 0.000021261 78 100%
2017 70 0.000019574 70 100%
2018 101 0.000028727 101 100%
2019 131 0.000037742 131 100%
2020 123 0.00003682 123 100%
2021 127 0.000037486 127 100%
2022 131 0.000038721 131 100%
2023 135 0.000040771 135 100%
2024 158 0.000047469 158 100%

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