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How popular is “Poet” in the USA?

Number of people named “Poet” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Poet” by birth year

This chart shows how “Poet” 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
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 100%
2007 12 0.000003002 7 5 17%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 100%
2009 15 0.000003927 10 5 33%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2013 20 0.000005486 15 5 50%
2014 15 0.000004047 9 6 20%
2015 19 0.000005134 11 8 16%
2016 18 0.000004906 9 9 0%
2017 14 0.000003915 9 5 29%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 100%
2020 21 0.000006286 10 11 -5%
2021 30 0.000008855 21 9 40%
2022 22 0.000006503 9 13 -18%
2023 31 0.000009362 15 16 -3%
2024 39 0.000011717 18 21 -8%

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