How popular is “Pennelope” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Pennelope” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Pennelope” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1942	5	0.00000183	5	100%
1943	5	0.000001771	5	100%
1945	5	0.000001885	5	100%
1946	9	0.000002817	9	100%
1947	7	0.000001943	7	100%
1948	8	0.000002317	8	100%
1949	9	0.000002583	9	100%
1950	6	0.000001713	6	100%
1952	12	0.00000316	12	100%
1953	7	0.000001816	7	100%
1955	6	0.000001494	6	100%
1956	7	0.000001698	7	100%
1957	12	0.000002856	12	100%
1958	7	0.000001693	7	100%
1961	6	0.000001448	6	100%
2002	7	0.000001873	7	100%
2005	10	0.000002601	10	100%
2006	7	0.000001769	7	100%
2008	10	0.000002544	10	100%
2009	7	0.000001832	7	100%
2010	6	0.000001623	6	100%
2011	8	0.000002187	8	100%
2012	9	0.000002461	9	100%
2013	20	0.000005486	20	100%
2014	21	0.000005666	21	100%
2015	14	0.000003783	14	100%
2016	15	0.000004089	15	100%
2017	30	0.000008389	30	100%
2018	14	0.000003982	14	100%
2019	25	0.000007203	25	100%
2020	18	0.000005388	18	100%
2021	17	0.000005018	17	100%
2022	13	0.000003843	13	100%
2023	12	0.000003624	12	100%
2024	12	0.000003605	12	100%

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