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How popular is “Philomene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Philomene” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Philomene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Philomene” 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
1882 6 0.000027084 6 100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 100%
1885 13 0.000053975 13 100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 100%
1889 8 0.000027687 8 100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 100%
1892 12 0.000035888 12 100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 100%
1896 10 0.000027973 10 100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 100%
1899 12 0.000035374 12 100%
1900 13 0.000028872 13 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 100%
1912 16 0.000016193 16 100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 100%
1915 22 0.000012006 22 100%
1916 17 0.000008788 17 100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 100%
1918 15 0.000006909 15 100%
1919 17 0.000008056 17 100%
1920 16 0.000007071 16 100%
1921 18 0.00000771 18 100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 100%
1927 15 0.000006467 15 100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 100%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 100%

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