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How popular is “Pleasant” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pleasant” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Pleasant” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pleasant” 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
1880 17 0.000084374 17 -100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 -100%
1882 13 0.000058682 13 -100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1885 13 0.000053975 13 -100%
1886 17 0.000066584 5 12 -41%
1887 10 0.000040422 10 -100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 -100%
1890 18 0.000059721 5 13 -44%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1893 17 0.000052272 5 12 -41%
1894 13 0.000038383 5 8 -23%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 -100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 12 0.000012145 6 6 0%
1913 12 0.000010553 12 -100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 19 0.000010369 7 12 -26%
1916 18 0.000009305 5 13 -44%
1917 22 0.000010963 7 15 -36%
1918 12 0.000005527 12 -100%
1919 24 0.000011373 6 18 -50%
1920 21 0.000009281 21 -100%
1921 25 0.000010709 6 19 -52%
1922 18 0.000007863 18 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 22 0.000009237 22 -100%
1925 15 0.000006429 15 -100%
1926 21 0.000009147 5 16 -52%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 -100%
1928 15 0.000006634 15 -100%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 -100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 14 0.000006631 14 -100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 7 0.000003164 7 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 100%

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