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How popular is “Penn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Penn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Penn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Penn” 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
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 -100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 -100%
2009 32 0.000008377 32 -100%
2010 30 0.000008117 30 -100%
2011 34 0.000009295 34 -100%
2012 46 0.000012577 46 -100%
2013 53 0.000014538 53 -100%
2014 79 0.000021315 79 -100%
2015 66 0.000017833 10 56 -70%
2016 64 0.000017445 64 -100%
2017 61 0.000017057 61 -100%
2018 49 0.000013937 49 -100%
2019 72 0.000020744 5 67 -86%
2020 80 0.000023948 7 73 -82%
2021 64 0.00001889 64 -100%
2022 54 0.000015962 54 -100%
2023 69 0.000020838 69 -100%
2024 42 0.000012618 42 -100%

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