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How popular is “Phelan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Phelan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Phelan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Phelan” 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
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 11 0.000003136 5 6 -9%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 -100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 -100%
1990 16 0.000004048 16 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 -100%
1993 19 0.000005039 5 14 -47%
1994 23 0.000006187 6 17 -48%
1995 25 0.000006827 5 20 -60%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 -100%
1997 21 0.000005792 21 -100%
1998 21 0.000005709 6 15 -43%
1999 23 0.000006227 9 14 -22%
2000 17 0.000004497 5 12 -41%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2002 19 0.000005083 7 12 -26%
2003 15 0.000003945 5 10 -33%
2004 17 0.000004449 5 12 -41%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 -100%
2008 15 0.000003816 5 10 -33%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 -100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 13 0.000003507 13 -100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2017 18 0.000005033 5 13 -44%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 -100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 -100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 -100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 -100%
2022 8 0.000002365 8 -100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 -100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 -100%

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