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How popular is “Peregrine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Peregrine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Peregrine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Peregrine” 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
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 -100%
2011 14 0.000003827 5 9 -29%
2012 13 0.000003554 7 6 8%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2014 13 0.000003507 7 6 8%
2015 23 0.000006215 8 15 -30%
2016 22 0.000005997 6 16 -45%
2017 18 0.000005033 7 11 -22%
2018 25 0.000007111 13 12 4%
2019 23 0.000006626 8 15 -30%
2020 44 0.000013171 15 29 -32%
2021 33 0.00000974 11 22 -33%
2022 44 0.000013006 19 25 -14%
2023 44 0.000013288 15 29 -32%
2024 42 0.000012618 7 35 -67%

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