How popular is “Philomena” in the USA?

Number of people named “Philomena” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Philomena” by birth year

This chart shows how “Philomena” 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	Bias toward female
1880	10	0.000049632	10	100%
1881	11	0.000057087	11	100%
1882	10	0.00004514	10	100%
1883	15	0.000069142	15	100%
1884	10	0.000041074	10	100%
1885	14	0.000058127	14	100%
1886	15	0.000058751	15	100%
1887	9	0.00003638	9	100%
1888	24	0.000080141	24	100%
1889	22	0.000076139	22	100%
1890	21	0.000069675	21	100%
1891	16	0.000055813	16	100%
1892	28	0.000083739	28	100%
1893	24	0.000073796	24	100%
1894	25	0.000073814	25	100%
1895	32	0.000091163	32	100%
1896	34	0.000095109	34	100%
1897	36	0.000103759	36	100%
1898	33	0.000086511	33	100%
1899	47	0.000138547	47	100%
1900	38	0.000084396	38	100%
1901	40	0.00011567	40	100%
1902	47	0.000121531	47	100%
1903	66	0.000173137	66	100%
1904	48	0.000118964	48	100%
1905	73	0.000172201	73	100%
1906	58	0.000135371	58	100%
1907	75	0.000161155	75	100%
1908	96	0.00019646	96	100%
1909	72	0.000140838	72	100%
1910	81	0.000137123	81	100%
1911	109	0.000169182	109	100%
1912	139	0.000140679	139	100%
1913	156	0.00013719	156	100%
1914	207	0.000146151	207	100%
1915	284	0.000154986	284	100%
1916	296	0.000153018	296	100%
1917	290	0.000144512	290	100%
1918	265	0.000122057	265	100%
1919	244	0.000115626	244	100%
1920	270	0.000119329	270	100%
1921	294	0.000125937	294	100%
1922	308	0.000134547	308	100%
1923	299	0.00012986	299	100%
1924	291	0.000122186	291	100%
1925	270	0.000115716	270	100%
1926	261	0.000113681	261	100%
1927	267	0.000115118	267	100%
1928	225	0.000099516	225	100%
1929	226	0.000103095	226	100%
1930	178	0.000080062	178	100%
1931	156	0.000074131	156	100%
1932	133	0.000062995	133	100%
1933	114	0.000057016	114	100%
1934	110	0.000052966	110	100%
1935	79	0.000037801	79	100%
1936	76	0.000036581	76	100%
1937	80	0.000037547	80	100%
1938	81	0.000036609	81	100%
1939	63	0.000028592	63	100%
1940	65	0.000028228	65	100%
1941	71	0.000029141	71	100%
1942	67	0.000024526	67	100%
1943	54	0.000019132	54	100%
1944	48	0.000017843	48	100%
1945	33	0.000012439	33	100%
1946	46	0.000014396	46	100%
1947	57	0.000015823	57	100%
1948	57	0.00001651	57	100%
1949	49	0.000014061	49	100%
1950	59	0.000016841	59	100%
1951	53	0.000014388	53	100%
1952	59	0.000015534	59	100%
1953	64	0.000016608	64	100%
1954	56	0.000014068	56	100%
1955	52	0.000012951	52	100%
1956	62	0.000015037	62	100%
1957	39	0.000009281	39	100%
1958	44	0.000010644	44	100%
1959	46	0.000011063	46	100%
1960	43	0.000010352	43	100%
1961	25	0.000006035	25	100%
1962	31	0.000007682	31	100%
1963	21	0.000005305	21	100%
1964	18	0.00000463	18	100%
1965	24	0.00000662	24	100%
1966	23	0.000006617	23	100%
1967	18	0.000005302	18	100%
1968	14	0.000004144	14	100%
1969	22	0.00000633	22	100%
1970	20	0.000005546	20	100%
1971	18	0.000005244	18	100%
1972	6	0.000001909	6	100%
1973	9	0.000002983	9	100%
1974	11	0.000003618	11	100%
1975	12	0.000003974	12	100%
1976	7	0.000002307	7	100%
1977	9	0.000002833	9	100%
1978	15	0.000004726	15	100%
1979	8	0.000002405	8	100%
1980	7	0.000002032	7	100%
1981	7	0.000002023	7	100%
1982	7	0.000001995	7	100%
1983	12	0.000003465	12	100%
1985	8	0.000002241	8	100%
1986	7	0.000001968	7	100%
1987	6	0.000001664	6	100%
1988	9	0.000002436	9	100%
1989	9	0.000002341	9	100%
1990	5	0.000001265	5	100%
1991	12	0.000003081	12	100%
1992	9	0.000002343	9	100%
1993	7	0.000001857	7	100%
1994	8	0.000002152	8	100%
1995	9	0.000002458	9	100%
1996	15	0.000004113	15	100%
1997	15	0.000004137	15	100%
1998	21	0.000005709	21	100%
1999	20	0.000005414	20	100%
2000	17	0.000004497	17	100%
2001	15	0.000004007	15	100%
2002	17	0.000004548	17	100%
2003	18	0.000004734	18	100%
2004	27	0.000007066	27	100%
2005	23	0.000005982	23	100%
2006	25	0.000006319	25	100%
2007	33	0.000008255	33	100%
2008	24	0.000006106	24	100%
2009	19	0.000004974	19	100%
2010	31	0.000008388	31	100%
2011	41	0.000011209	41	100%
2012	41	0.00001121	41	100%
2013	43	0.000011795	43	100%
2014	67	0.000018077	67	100%
2015	78	0.000021076	78	100%
2016	93	0.00002535	93	100%
2017	92	0.000025726	92	100%
2018	87	0.000024745	87	100%
2019	92	0.000026506	92	100%
2020	86	0.000025744	86	100%
2021	77	0.000022728	77	100%
2022	83	0.000024533	83	100%
2023	79	0.000023858	79	100%
2024	110	0.000033048	110	100%

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