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How popular is “Paw” in the USA?

Number of people named “Paw” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Paw” by birth year

This chart shows how “Paw” 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
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 100%
2012 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2013 25 0.000006857 25 100%
2014 25 0.000006745 25 100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 100%
2016 26 0.000007087 26 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 12 0.000003413 12 100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 100%
2020 16 0.00000479 16 100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 100%

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