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How popular is “Paxton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Paxton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Paxton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Paxton” 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
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 18 0.000004345 18 -100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 -100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 -100%
1969 28 0.000008057 28 -100%
1970 48 0.000013309 48 -100%
1971 54 0.000015733 54 -100%
1972 47 0.000014954 47 -100%
1973 40 0.000013259 40 -100%
1974 35 0.000011513 35 -100%
1975 21 0.000006955 21 -100%
1976 26 0.000008569 26 -100%
1977 24 0.000007555 24 -100%
1978 18 0.000005671 18 -100%
1979 19 0.000005711 19 -100%
1980 21 0.000006097 21 -100%
1981 19 0.000005492 19 -100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 -100%
1983 18 0.000005197 18 -100%
1984 19 0.000005446 19 -100%
1985 21 0.000005884 21 -100%
1986 24 0.000006747 24 -100%
1987 17 0.000004715 17 -100%
1988 25 0.000006766 25 -100%
1989 37 0.000009624 37 -100%
1990 17 0.000004301 17 -100%
1991 58 0.00001489 15 43 -48%
1992 89 0.000023169 23 66 -48%
1993 118 0.000031297 45 73 -24%
1994 236 0.000063481 132 104 12%
1995 162 0.000044236 65 97 -20%
1996 167 0.000045789 76 91 -9%
1997 220 0.000060677 76 144 -31%
1998 210 0.000057093 54 156 -49%
1999 240 0.000064973 72 168 -40%
2000 229 0.000060584 68 161 -41%
2001 205 0.000054763 43 162 -58%
2002 250 0.000066875 53 197 -58%
2003 233 0.000061278 59 174 -49%
2004 242 0.000063335 45 197 -63%
2005 242 0.000062941 31 211 -74%
2006 310 0.000078358 43 267 -72%
2007 493 0.000123321 37 456 -85%
2008 744 0.000189281 47 697 -87%
2009 1022 0.000267527 43 979 -92%
2010 1166 0.000315498 56 1110 -90%
2011 1341 0.000366615 54 1287 -92%
2012 1544 0.000422162 48 1496 -94%
2013 1410 0.000386761 54 1356 -92%
2014 1492 0.00040255 60 1432 -92%
2015 1746 0.000471776 69 1677 -92%
2016 2084 0.000568049 91 1993 -91%
2017 2004 0.000560372 95 1909 -91%
2018 1781 0.000506556 87 1694 -90%
2019 1533 0.000441668 83 1450 -89%
2020 1375 0.000411606 74 1301 -89%
2021 1468 0.000433301 76 1392 -90%
2022 1435 0.000424163 86 1349 -88%
2023 1421 0.00042915 65 1356 -91%
2024 1215 0.000365029 50 1165 -92%

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