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How popular is “Pearley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pearley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Pearley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pearley” 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
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1889 10 0.000034609 5 5 0%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 100%
1892 9 0.000026916 9 100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 100%
1896 11 0.000030771 6 5 9%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1912 15 0.000015181 15 100%
1913 15 0.000013191 10 5 33%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 100%
1915 26 0.000014189 15 11 15%
1916 17 0.000008788 10 7 18%
1917 15 0.000007475 10 5 33%
1918 25 0.000011515 17 8 36%
1919 21 0.000009951 14 7 33%
1920 22 0.000009723 15 7 36%
1921 20 0.000008567 12 8 20%
1922 19 0.0000083 11 8 16%
1923 19 0.000008252 13 6 37%
1924 27 0.000011337 19 8 41%
1925 26 0.000011143 20 6 54%
1926 31 0.000013502 23 8 48%
1927 23 0.000009917 18 5 57%
1928 22 0.00000973 17 5 55%
1929 20 0.000009123 13 7 30%
1930 16 0.000007197 7 9 -13%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 100%
1932 16 0.000007578 16 100%
1933 14 0.000007002 9 5 29%
1934 16 0.000007704 10 6 25%
1935 26 0.000012441 18 8 38%
1936 15 0.00000722 8 7 7%
1937 17 0.000007979 17 100%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 100%
1940 23 0.000009988 23 100%
1941 22 0.00000903 17 5 55%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1945 15 0.000005654 15 100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 100%
1947 15 0.000004164 10 5 33%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%

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