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How popular is “Persephone” in the USA?

Number of people named “Persephone” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Persephone” by birth year

This chart shows how “Persephone” 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
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 100%
1974 14 0.000004605 14 100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 100%
1990 13 0.000003289 13 100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 100%
1995 16 0.000004369 16 100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 100%
1997 19 0.00000524 19 100%
1998 25 0.000006797 25 100%
1999 22 0.000005956 22 100%
2000 20 0.000005291 20 100%
2001 22 0.000005877 22 100%
2002 19 0.000005083 19 100%
2003 45 0.000011835 45 100%
2004 43 0.000011254 43 100%
2005 47 0.000012224 47 100%
2006 59 0.000014913 59 100%
2007 64 0.000016009 64 100%
2008 59 0.00001501 59 100%
2009 87 0.000022774 87 100%
2010 111 0.000030035 111 100%
2011 136 0.000037181 136 100%
2012 143 0.000039099 143 100%
2013 171 0.000046905 171 100%
2014 203 0.00005477 203 100%
2015 178 0.000048096 178 100%
2016 196 0.000053425 196 100%
2017 226 0.000063196 226 100%
2018 236 0.000067124 236 100%
2019 287 0.000082687 287 100%
2020 333 0.000099683 333 100%
2021 366 0.00010803 366 100%
2022 428 0.00012651 428 100%
2023 376 0.000113554 376 100%
2024 381 0.000114466 381 100%

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