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How popular is “Percy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Percy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Percy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Percy” 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
1880 94 0.000466538 94 -100%
1881 95 0.000493025 95 -100%
1882 126 0.000568764 126 -100%
1883 87 0.000401021 87 -100%
1884 126 0.000517537 126 -100%
1885 98 0.000406885 98 -100%
1886 128 0.000501339 6 122 -91%
1887 129 0.00052144 6 123 -91%
1888 151 0.000504217 151 -100%
1889 144 0.000498363 144 -100%
1890 140 0.000464497 140 -100%
1891 131 0.000456967 131 -100%
1892 149 0.000445609 149 -100%
1893 177 0.000544242 177 -100%
1894 173 0.000510792 173 -100%
1895 169 0.000481454 5 164 -94%
1896 163 0.000455964 6 157 -93%
1897 189 0.000544736 6 183 -94%
1898 155 0.000406339 155 -100%
1899 147 0.000433329 5 142 -93%
1900 206 0.000457515 5 201 -95%
1901 125 0.000361468 5 120 -92%
1902 167 0.000431822 167 -100%
1903 124 0.000325289 124 -100%
1904 125 0.000309801 125 -100%
1905 169 0.000398658 169 -100%
1906 141 0.000329092 141 -100%
1907 165 0.000354541 5 160 -94%
1908 151 0.000309015 151 -100%
1909 166 0.000324711 7 159 -92%
1910 203 0.000343654 8 195 -92%
1911 189 0.000293352 5 184 -95%
1912 342 0.000346132 5 337 -97%
1913 362 0.000318351 6 356 -97%
1914 457 0.000322662 8 449 -96%
1915 502 0.000273954 14 488 -94%
1916 537 0.000277603 13 524 -95%
1917 528 0.000263112 13 515 -95%
1918 587 0.000270369 20 567 -93%
1919 611 0.00028954 16 595 -95%
1920 614 0.000271364 13 601 -96%
1921 618 0.000264724 15 603 -95%
1922 609 0.000266037 10 599 -97%
1923 552 0.000239741 12 540 -96%
1924 570 0.000239334 10 560 -96%
1925 564 0.000241718 20 544 -93%
1926 511 0.00022257 18 493 -93%
1927 536 0.000231098 17 519 -94%
1928 494 0.000218493 11 483 -96%
1929 515 0.000234928 18 497 -93%
1930 441 0.000198355 12 429 -95%
1931 422 0.000200533 7 415 -97%
1932 446 0.000211245 16 430 -93%
1933 407 0.000203556 8 399 -96%
1934 390 0.000187787 13 377 -93%
1935 394 0.000188526 9 385 -95%
1936 366 0.000176167 6 360 -97%
1937 370 0.000173654 14 356 -92%
1938 356 0.000160899 7 349 -96%
1939 369 0.000167465 9 360 -95%
1940 336 0.000145917 8 328 -95%
1941 339 0.000139138 339 -100%
1942 388 0.00014203 7 381 -96%
1943 393 0.000139235 393 -100%
1944 357 0.00013271 7 350 -96%
1945 350 0.000131931 7 343 -96%
1946 351 0.000109849 8 343 -95%
1947 418 0.000116036 6 412 -97%
1948 420 0.00012165 9 411 -96%
1949 405 0.00011622 8 397 -96%
1950 418 0.000119314 7 411 -97%
1951 431 0.000117001 7 424 -97%
1952 451 0.000118747 8 443 -96%
1953 388 0.000100684 12 376 -94%
1954 369 0.000092697 6 363 -97%
1955 309 0.00007696 309 -100%
1956 325 0.000078825 6 319 -96%
1957 354 0.000084243 6 348 -97%
1958 280 0.000067733 280 -100%
1959 264 0.000063492 264 -100%
1960 279 0.000067167 9 270 -94%
1961 246 0.000059387 246 -100%
1962 257 0.000063687 7 250 -95%
1963 242 0.000061139 7 235 -94%
1964 208 0.000053503 208 -100%
1965 198 0.000054614 5 193 -95%
1966 200 0.000057543 5 195 -95%
1967 184 0.000054199 6 178 -93%
1968 186 0.000055055 5 181 -95%
1969 207 0.000059563 5 202 -95%
1970 175 0.000048523 175 -100%
1971 187 0.000054482 187 -100%
1972 177 0.000056316 177 -100%
1973 169 0.000056018 169 -100%
1974 147 0.000048355 147 -100%
1975 143 0.00004736 143 -100%
1976 138 0.00004548 138 -100%
1977 137 0.000043129 137 -100%
1978 146 0.000046001 146 -100%
1979 119 0.000035768 119 -100%
1980 124 0.000035999 124 -100%
1981 130 0.000037579 130 -100%
1982 114 0.000032498 114 -100%
1983 105 0.000030318 105 -100%
1984 98 0.00002809 98 -100%
1985 97 0.000027178 97 -100%
1986 91 0.000025583 91 -100%
1987 73 0.000020246 73 -100%
1988 107 0.000028958 107 -100%
1989 98 0.000025491 98 -100%
1990 102 0.000025807 102 -100%
1991 88 0.000022592 88 -100%
1992 95 0.000024731 95 -100%
1993 71 0.000018831 71 -100%
1994 75 0.000020174 75 -100%
1995 65 0.000017749 65 -100%
1996 61 0.000016725 61 -100%
1997 62 0.0000171 62 -100%
1998 61 0.000016584 61 -100%
1999 56 0.00001516 56 -100%
2000 52 0.000013757 52 -100%
2001 59 0.000015761 59 -100%
2002 46 0.000012305 46 -100%
2003 47 0.000012361 47 -100%
2004 60 0.000015703 60 -100%
2005 45 0.000011704 45 -100%
2006 51 0.000012891 51 -100%
2007 57 0.000014258 57 -100%
2008 37 0.000009413 37 -100%
2009 38 0.000009947 38 -100%
2010 41 0.000011094 41 -100%
2011 39 0.000010662 39 -100%
2012 60 0.000016405 60 -100%
2013 61 0.000016732 61 -100%
2014 76 0.000020505 6 70 -84%
2015 58 0.000015672 58 -100%
2016 52 0.000014174 5 47 -81%
2017 73 0.000020413 73 -100%
2018 63 0.000017919 63 -100%
2019 54 0.000015558 9 45 -67%
2020 76 0.000022751 7 69 -82%
2021 92 0.000027155 5 87 -89%
2022 112 0.000033105 112 -100%
2023 124 0.000037449 12 112 -81%
2024 169 0.000050774 12 157 -86%

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