How popular is “Perseus” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Perseus” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Perseus” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1983	6	0.000001732		6	-100%
1989	5	0.000001301		5	-100%
2007	5	0.000001251	5		100%
2008	5	0.000001272		5	-100%
2009	5	0.000001309	5		100%
2010	22	0.000005953	5	17	-55%
2011	36	0.000009842	5	31	-72%
2012	43	0.000011757	5	38	-77%
2013	60	0.000016458		60	-100%
2014	47	0.000012681		47	-100%
2015	51	0.00001378		51	-100%
2016	71	0.000019353	7	64	-80%
2017	55	0.000015379		55	-100%
2018	93	0.000026451		93	-100%
2019	105	0.000030251		105	-100%
2020	110	0.000032928		110	-100%
2021	128	0.000037781		128	-100%
2022	130	0.000038426		130	-100%
2023	123	0.000037147		123	-100%
2024	152	0.000045666		152	-100%

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