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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Peg” in the USA?

Number of people named “Peg” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Peg” by birth year

This chart shows how “Peg” 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
1913 6 0.000005277 6 100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 100%
1935 15 0.000007177 15 100%
1936 15 0.00000722 15 100%
1937 18 0.000008448 18 100%
1938 17 0.000007683 17 100%
1939 22 0.000009984 22 100%
1940 23 0.000009988 23 100%
1941 22 0.00000903 22 100%
1942 19 0.000006955 19 100%
1943 16 0.000005669 16 100%
1944 18 0.000006691 18 100%
1945 20 0.000007539 20 100%
1946 32 0.000010015 32 100%
1947 26 0.000007218 26 100%
1948 31 0.000008979 31 100%
1949 30 0.000008609 30 100%
1950 21 0.000005994 21 100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 100%
1952 33 0.000008689 33 100%
1953 25 0.000006487 25 100%
1954 24 0.000006029 24 100%
1955 29 0.000007223 29 100%
1956 33 0.000008004 33 100%
1957 43 0.000010233 43 100%
1958 41 0.000009918 41 100%
1959 37 0.000008899 37 100%
1960 30 0.000007222 30 100%
1961 21 0.00000507 21 100%
1962 27 0.000006691 27 100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 100%
1964 18 0.00000463 18 100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%

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