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How popular is “Phyliss” in the USA?

Number of people named “Phyliss” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Phyliss” by birth year

This chart shows how “Phyliss” 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
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 100%
1914 16 0.000011297 16 100%
1915 13 0.000007094 13 100%
1916 16 0.000008271 16 100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 100%
1918 29 0.000013357 29 100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 100%
1920 31 0.000013701 31 100%
1921 35 0.000014992 35 100%
1922 34 0.000014853 34 100%
1923 45 0.000019544 45 100%
1924 29 0.000012177 29 100%
1925 41 0.000017572 41 100%
1926 34 0.000014809 34 100%
1927 39 0.000016815 39 100%
1928 32 0.000014153 32 100%
1929 38 0.000017334 38 100%
1930 33 0.000014843 33 100%
1931 49 0.000023285 49 100%
1932 41 0.000019419 41 100%
1933 37 0.000018505 37 100%
1934 29 0.000013964 29 100%
1935 44 0.000021054 44 100%
1936 46 0.000022141 46 100%
1937 38 0.000017835 38 100%
1938 47 0.000021242 47 100%
1939 43 0.000019515 43 100%
1940 43 0.000018674 43 100%
1941 54 0.000022164 54 100%
1942 51 0.000018669 51 100%
1943 47 0.000016652 47 100%
1944 46 0.0000171 46 100%
1945 49 0.00001847 49 100%
1946 60 0.000018778 60 100%
1947 69 0.000019154 69 100%
1948 61 0.000017668 61 100%
1949 61 0.000017505 61 100%
1950 68 0.00001941 68 100%
1951 70 0.000019002 70 100%
1952 56 0.000014745 56 100%
1953 57 0.000014791 57 100%
1954 59 0.000014821 59 100%
1955 54 0.000013449 54 100%
1956 50 0.000012127 50 100%
1957 55 0.000013089 55 100%
1958 36 0.000008708 36 100%
1959 44 0.000010582 44 100%
1960 36 0.000008667 36 100%
1961 53 0.000012795 53 100%
1962 49 0.000012143 49 100%
1963 48 0.000012127 48 100%
1964 32 0.000008231 32 100%
1965 34 0.000009378 34 100%
1966 33 0.000009495 33 100%
1967 21 0.000006186 21 100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%

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