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How popular is “Pauline” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pauline” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Pauline” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pauline” 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 144 0.000714697 144 100%
1881 166 0.000861496 166 100%
1882 204 0.000920856 204 100%
1883 198 0.00091267 198 100%
1884 230 0.00094471 230 100%
1885 254 0.001054581 254 100%
1886 276 0.001081013 276 100%
1887 314 0.001269241 314 100%
1888 393 0.001312301 393 100%
1889 415 0.001436254 415 100%
1890 475 0.001575974 475 100%
1891 455 0.001587174 455 100%
1892 526 0.001573089 526 100%
1893 551 0.001694222 545 6 98%
1894 656 0.001936874 656 100%
1895 734 0.002091049 734 100%
1896 761 0.002128767 756 5 99%
1897 777 0.002239471 777 100%
1898 900 0.002359387 900 100%
1899 817 0.002408367 811 6 99%
1900 1104 0.002451928 1104 100%
1901 938 0.002712457 938 100%
1902 985 0.002546977 985 100%
1903 1042 0.002733473 1042 100%
1904 1243 0.00308066 1243 100%
1905 1390 0.003278905 1381 9 99%
1906 1436 0.003351609 1428 8 99%
1907 1591 0.003418638 1591 100%
1908 1707 0.003493305 1702 5 99%
1909 1903 0.003722439 1896 7 99%
1910 2166 0.003666768 2153 13 99%
1911 2354 0.003653702 2345 9 99%
1912 3172 0.003210325 3163 9 99%
1913 3646 0.003206374 3636 10 99%
1914 4706 0.003322639 4698 8 100%
1915 6345 0.003462623 6334 11 100%
1916 6679 0.00345272 6655 24 99%
1917 6918 0.003447365 6896 22 99%
1918 7238 0.003333777 7222 16 100%
1919 6986 0.003310516 6973 13 100%
1920 7200 0.003182119 7180 20 99%
1921 7161 0.00306746 7142 19 99%
1922 6824 0.002981011 6811 13 100%
1923 6726 0.002921197 6707 19 99%
1924 6732 0.002826659 6722 10 100%
1925 6749 0.002892467 6728 21 99%
1926 6388 0.002782345 6357 31 99%
1927 6044 0.002605893 6011 33 99%
1928 5426 0.002399889 5391 35 99%
1929 5051 0.002304119 5026 25 99%
1930 4683 0.00210634 4656 27 99%
1931 4213 0.002002007 4191 22 99%
1932 3922 0.001857631 3901 21 99%
1933 3561 0.001780992 3542 19 99%
1934 3469 0.001670345 3445 24 99%
1935 3096 0.001481411 3076 20 99%
1936 3008 0.00144784 2981 27 98%
1937 2839 0.001332445 2818 21 99%
1938 2675 0.001208999 2666 9 99%
1939 2438 0.001106451 2414 24 98%
1940 2423 0.00105225 2409 14 99%
1941 2361 0.000969043 2352 9 99%
1942 2482 0.000908552 2474 8 99%
1943 2469 0.000874738 2459 10 99%
1944 2138 0.000794772 2128 10 99%
1945 1983 0.000747481 1975 8 99%
1946 2060 0.000644695 2055 5 100%
1947 2187 0.000607108 2178 9 99%
1948 1979 0.000573205 1965 14 99%
1949 1917 0.000550107 1917 100%
1950 1747 0.000498664 1739 8 99%
1951 1626 0.000441399 1620 6 99%
1952 1605 0.00042259 1596 9 99%
1953 1575 0.000408704 1570 5 99%
1954 1431 0.000359484 1423 8 99%
1955 1351 0.000336481 1351 100%
1956 1374 0.000333249 1369 5 99%
1957 1351 0.000321503 1344 7 99%
1958 1208 0.000292218 1208 100%
1959 1216 0.000292449 1216 100%
1960 1119 0.000269391 1113 6 99%
1961 1140 0.000275209 1140 100%
1962 928 0.000229966 928 100%
1963 1038 0.00026224 1032 6 99%
1964 1030 0.000264945 1023 7 99%
1965 873 0.000240798 873 100%
1966 794 0.000228446 794 100%
1967 695 0.000204719 695 100%
1968 692 0.00020483 692 100%
1969 648 0.000186457 648 100%
1970 633 0.000175516 633 100%
1971 548 0.000159657 548 100%
1972 466 0.000148266 466 100%
1973 432 0.000143194 432 100%
1974 387 0.000127303 387 100%
1975 340 0.000112605 340 100%
1976 326 0.000107438 326 100%
1977 292 0.000091925 292 100%
1978 315 0.000099248 315 100%
1979 273 0.000082056 273 100%
1980 290 0.000084192 290 100%
1981 298 0.000086143 298 100%
1982 256 0.000072977 256 100%
1983 254 0.00007334 254 100%
1984 231 0.000066213 231 100%
1985 238 0.000066683 238 100%
1986 219 0.000061567 219 100%
1987 212 0.000058797 212 100%
1988 222 0.00006008 222 100%
1989 266 0.000069191 266 100%
1990 275 0.000069577 275 100%
1991 296 0.00007599 296 100%
1992 224 0.000058314 224 100%
1993 260 0.00006896 260 100%
1994 226 0.000060791 226 100%
1995 212 0.000057889 212 100%
1996 192 0.000052643 192 100%
1997 201 0.000055437 201 100%
1998 155 0.00004214 155 100%
1999 147 0.000039796 147 100%
2000 147 0.00003889 147 100%
2001 129 0.000034461 129 100%
2002 145 0.000038788 145 100%
2003 150 0.00003945 150 100%
2004 105 0.00002748 105 100%
2005 114 0.00002965 114 100%
2006 88 0.000022244 88 100%
2007 95 0.000023764 95 100%
2008 68 0.0000173 68 100%
2009 56 0.000014659 56 100%
2010 54 0.000014611 54 100%
2011 68 0.00001859 68 100%
2012 66 0.000018046 66 100%
2013 64 0.000017555 64 100%
2014 68 0.000018347 68 100%
2015 78 0.000021076 78 100%
2016 63 0.000017172 63 100%
2017 60 0.000016778 60 100%
2018 62 0.000017634 62 100%
2019 50 0.000014405 50 100%
2020 53 0.000015866 53 100%
2021 49 0.000014463 49 100%
2022 57 0.000016848 57 100%
2023 63 0.000019026 63 100%
2024 45 0.00001352 45 100%

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