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How popular is “Payne” in the USA?

Number of people named “Payne” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Payne” by birth year

This chart shows how “Payne” 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
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 26 0.000007211 26 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 24 0.000006072 24 -100%
1991 16 0.000004108 16 -100%
1992 34 0.000008851 34 -100%
1993 54 0.000014323 54 -100%
1994 72 0.000019367 5 67 -86%
1995 40 0.000010923 40 -100%
1996 42 0.000011516 42 -100%
1997 23 0.000006344 23 -100%
1998 24 0.000006525 24 -100%
1999 41 0.000011099 41 -100%
2000 121 0.000032011 121 -100%
2001 81 0.000021638 81 -100%
2002 68 0.00001819 6 62 -82%
2003 55 0.000014465 55 -100%
2004 45 0.000011777 45 -100%
2005 44 0.000011444 44 -100%
2006 40 0.000010111 40 -100%
2007 38 0.000009506 38 -100%
2008 31 0.000007887 31 -100%
2009 34 0.0000089 34 -100%
2010 30 0.000008117 30 -100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 -100%
2014 21 0.000005666 21 -100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 -100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 -100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 -100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 -100%
2019 21 0.00000605 21 -100%
2020 16 0.00000479 16 -100%
2021 19 0.000005608 19 -100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 16 0.000004832 16 -100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 -100%

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