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How popular is “Paxson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Paxson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Paxson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Paxson” 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
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 -100%
2010 27 0.000007306 27 -100%
2011 31 0.000008475 31 -100%
2012 39 0.000010663 39 -100%
2013 24 0.000006583 24 -100%
2014 32 0.000008634 32 -100%
2015 33 0.000008917 33 -100%
2016 35 0.00000954 35 -100%
2017 20 0.000005593 20 -100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 -100%
2019 19 0.000005474 19 -100%
2020 21 0.000006286 21 -100%
2021 20 0.000005903 20 -100%
2022 22 0.000006503 22 -100%
2023 12 0.000003624 12 -100%
2024 13 0.000003906 13 -100%

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