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How popular is “Pepper” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pepper” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Pepper” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pepper” 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
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 -100%
1947 13 0.000003609 5 8 -23%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1953 15 0.000003892 8 7 7%
1954 15 0.000003768 9 6 20%
1955 13 0.000003238 7 6 8%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 -100%
1958 13 0.000003145 6 7 -8%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1960 15 0.000003611 8 7 7%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 100%
1962 20 0.000004956 20 100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 100%
1964 15 0.000003858 15 100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 100%
1966 22 0.00000633 17 5 55%
1967 20 0.000005891 20 100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 100%
1970 15 0.000004159 15 100%
1971 23 0.000006701 18 5 57%
1972 22 0.000007 22 100%
1973 27 0.00000895 20 7 48%
1974 34 0.000011184 27 7 59%
1975 132 0.000043717 132 100%
1976 119 0.000039218 119 100%
1977 88 0.000027703 88 100%
1978 63 0.00001985 63 100%
1979 48 0.000014427 48 100%
1980 35 0.000010161 35 100%
1981 24 0.000006938 24 100%
1982 20 0.000005701 20 100%
1983 13 0.000003754 13 100%
1984 21 0.000006019 21 100%
1985 11 0.000003082 11 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1995 15 0.000004096 6 9 -20%
1996 11 0.000003016 6 5 9%
1997 12 0.00000331 5 7 -17%
1998 17 0.000004622 12 5 41%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 100%
2000 12 0.000003175 7 5 17%
2001 15 0.000004007 10 5 33%
2002 11 0.000002943 5 6 -9%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2004 17 0.000004449 8 9 -6%
2005 25 0.000006502 17 8 36%
2006 28 0.000007078 28 100%
2007 19 0.000004753 19 100%
2008 35 0.000008904 30 5 71%
2009 77 0.000020156 67 10 74%
2010 103 0.00002787 98 5 90%
2011 118 0.00003226 118 100%
2012 142 0.000038826 135 7 90%
2013 154 0.000042242 154 100%
2014 161 0.000043439 161 100%
2015 152 0.000041071 152 100%
2016 145 0.000039524 136 9 88%
2017 129 0.000036072 122 7 89%
2018 140 0.000039819 131 9 87%
2019 145 0.000041776 145 100%
2020 132 0.000039514 132 100%
2021 164 0.000048407 156 8 90%
2022 161 0.000047589 156 5 94%
2023 133 0.000040167 128 5 92%
2024 127 0.000038155 127 100%

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