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How popular is “Polo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Polo” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Polo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Polo” 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
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1928 11 0.000004865 11 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 -100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 -100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 -100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 -100%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 -100%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 -100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 -100%
1998 16 0.00000435 16 -100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 -100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 -100%
2001 21 0.00000561 21 -100%
2002 14 0.000003745 14 -100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 -100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 -100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 -100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 -100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 11 0.000002998 11 -100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 -100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 19 0.000005688 19 -100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 -100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 -100%
2023 15 0.00000453 15 -100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 -100%

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