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How popular is “Poseidon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Poseidon” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Poseidon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Poseidon” 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
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2012 14 0.000003828 14 -100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 21 0.000005674 21 -100%
2016 27 0.00000736 27 -100%
2017 19 0.000005313 19 -100%
2018 28 0.000007964 28 -100%
2019 31 0.000008931 31 -100%
2020 26 0.000007783 26 -100%
2021 32 0.000009445 32 -100%
2022 33 0.000009754 33 -100%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 -100%
2024 16 0.000004807 16 -100%

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