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How popular is “Penney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Penney” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Penney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Penney” 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
1925 5 0.000002143 5 100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 100%
1941 19 0.000007798 19 100%
1942 25 0.000009151 25 100%
1943 28 0.00000992 28 100%
1944 21 0.000007806 21 100%
1945 17 0.000006408 17 100%
1946 20 0.000006259 20 100%
1947 41 0.000011382 41 100%
1948 31 0.000008979 31 100%
1949 38 0.000010905 38 100%
1950 36 0.000010276 36 100%
1951 38 0.000010316 38 100%
1952 40 0.000010532 40 100%
1953 43 0.000011158 43 100%
1954 56 0.000014068 56 100%
1955 49 0.000012204 49 100%
1956 61 0.000014795 61 100%
1957 66 0.000015706 66 100%
1958 78 0.000018868 78 100%
1959 73 0.000017557 73 100%
1960 91 0.000021908 91 100%
1961 78 0.00001883 78 100%
1962 113 0.000028002 113 100%
1963 78 0.000019706 78 100%
1964 96 0.000024694 96 100%
1965 67 0.00001848 67 100%
1966 66 0.000018989 66 100%
1967 59 0.000017379 59 100%
1968 55 0.00001628 55 100%
1969 43 0.000012373 43 100%
1970 39 0.000010814 39 100%
1971 44 0.000012819 44 100%
1972 50 0.000015908 50 100%
1973 34 0.00001127 34 100%
1974 31 0.000010197 31 100%
1975 27 0.000008942 27 100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 100%
1977 28 0.000008815 28 100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 100%
1979 17 0.00000511 17 100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 100%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2014 8 0.000002158 8 100%
2017 9 0.000002517 9 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%

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