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How popular is “Penny” in the USA?

Number of people named “Penny” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Penny” by birth year

This chart shows how “Penny” 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 5 0.00002257 5 100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1901 7 0.000020242 7 100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1910 7 0.00001185 7 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 100%
1915 18 0.000009823 13 5 44%
1916 25 0.000012924 20 5 60%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 100%
1918 27 0.000012436 21 6 56%
1919 32 0.000015164 32 100%
1920 31 0.000013701 26 5 68%
1921 34 0.000014564 34 100%
1922 30 0.000013105 30 100%
1923 68 0.000029533 68 100%
1924 52 0.000021834 52 100%
1925 69 0.000029572 69 100%
1926 52 0.000022649 52 100%
1927 52 0.00002242 47 5 81%
1928 51 0.000022557 51 100%
1929 38 0.000017334 38 100%
1930 30 0.000013494 30 100%
1931 30 0.000014256 30 100%
1932 24 0.000011367 24 100%
1933 40 0.000020006 40 100%
1934 51 0.000024557 51 100%
1935 74 0.000035408 74 100%
1936 106 0.000051021 100 6 89%
1937 170 0.000079787 165 5 94%
1938 239 0.000108019 234 5 96%
1939 387 0.000175634 380 7 96%
1940 502 0.000218006 493 9 96%
1941 642 0.000263501 637 5 98%
1942 1001 0.000366423 992 9 98%
1943 1210 0.000428689 1203 7 99%
1944 1209 0.000449429 1204 5 99%
1945 1131 0.000426324 1131 100%
1946 1657 0.000518573 1645 12 99%
1947 2111 0.000586011 2101 10 99%
1948 1861 0.000539027 1861 100%
1949 1853 0.000531741 1846 7 99%
1950 1751 0.000499806 1751 100%
1951 2089 0.000567087 2077 12 99%
1952 2101 0.000553185 2091 10 99%
1953 2166 0.000562065 2153 13 99%
1954 2142 0.000538095 2134 8 99%
1955 2219 0.000552666 2213 6 99%
1956 2356 0.000571423 2348 8 99%
1957 3053 0.000726534 3045 8 99%
1958 3569 0.000863349 3556 13 99%
1959 3765 0.000905485 3756 9 100%
1960 4315 0.001038804 4302 13 99%
1961 4646 0.001121599 4636 10 100%
1962 5029 0.00124623 5003 26 99%
1963 5141 0.001298823 5127 14 99%
1964 4412 0.001134889 4396 16 99%
1965 3910 0.001078487 3899 11 99%
1966 3117 0.000896809 3109 8 99%
1967 2825 0.000832131 2812 13 99%
1968 2586 0.000765448 2575 11 99%
1969 2370 0.000681951 2360 10 99%
1970 2158 0.000598362 2145 13 99%
1971 2014 0.000586769 2001 13 99%
1972 1595 0.000507478 1587 8 99%
1973 1482 0.000491235 1471 11 99%
1974 1181 0.000388487 1174 7 99%
1975 1027 0.000340134 1027 100%
1976 870 0.000286722 870 100%
1977 856 0.000269479 856 100%
1978 750 0.000236305 750 100%
1979 697 0.000209498 697 100%
1980 556 0.000161416 556 100%
1981 482 0.000139332 482 100%
1982 379 0.00010804 379 100%
1983 295 0.000085178 295 100%
1984 280 0.000080258 280 100%
1985 270 0.000075649 270 100%
1986 210 0.000059037 210 100%
1987 171 0.000047426 171 100%
1988 151 0.000040866 151 100%
1989 158 0.000041098 158 100%
1990 121 0.000030614 121 100%
1991 102 0.000026186 102 100%
1992 91 0.00002369 91 100%
1993 88 0.00002334 88 100%
1994 80 0.000021519 80 100%
1995 64 0.000017476 64 100%
1996 62 0.000016999 62 100%
1997 62 0.0000171 62 100%
1998 58 0.000015769 58 100%
1999 54 0.000014619 54 100%
2000 53 0.000014022 53 100%
2001 38 0.000010151 38 100%
2002 49 0.000013108 49 100%
2003 44 0.000011572 44 100%
2004 53 0.000013871 53 100%
2005 51 0.000013265 51 100%
2006 60 0.000015166 60 100%
2007 80 0.000020012 80 100%
2008 90 0.000022897 90 100%
2009 105 0.000027486 105 100%
2010 153 0.000041399 153 100%
2011 165 0.000045109 165 100%
2012 233 0.000063707 233 100%
2013 251 0.000068849 251 100%
2014 345 0.000093083 345 100%
2015 372 0.000100516 372 100%
2016 419 0.000114209 419 100%
2017 360 0.000100666 360 100%
2018 363 0.000103245 363 100%
2019 362 0.000104295 362 100%
2020 383 0.000114651 383 100%
2021 408 0.000120427 408 100%
2022 402 0.000118825 402 100%
2023 433 0.000130768 433 100%
2024 376 0.000112964 376 100%

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