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How popular is “Prescott” in the USA?

Number of people named “Prescott” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Prescott” by birth year

This chart shows how “Prescott” 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
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 13 0.000007094 13 -100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 -100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 -100%
1920 10 0.00000442 10 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 -100%
1925 13 0.000005572 13 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1935 6 0.000002871 6 -100%
1936 13 0.000006257 13 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 -100%
1942 11 0.000004027 11 -100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 -100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 -100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1949 10 0.00000287 10 -100%
1950 11 0.00000314 11 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 14 0.000003367 14 -100%
1960 13 0.00000313 13 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 24 0.000005947 24 -100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 -100%
1964 19 0.000004887 19 -100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 -100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 -100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 18 0.000004991 18 -100%
1971 14 0.000004079 14 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 -100%
1975 17 0.00000563 17 -100%
1976 13 0.000004284 13 -100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 -100%
1978 12 0.000003781 12 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 -100%
1982 19 0.000005416 19 -100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 -100%
1984 19 0.000005446 19 -100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 -100%
1986 17 0.000004779 17 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 19 0.000005142 19 -100%
1989 39 0.000010145 39 -100%
1990 27 0.000006831 27 -100%
1991 24 0.000006161 24 -100%
1992 25 0.000006508 25 -100%
1993 28 0.000007427 28 -100%
1994 18 0.000004842 18 -100%
1995 23 0.00000628 23 -100%
1996 20 0.000005484 20 -100%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 -100%
1998 19 0.000005166 19 -100%
1999 19 0.000005144 19 -100%
2000 20 0.000005291 20 -100%
2001 29 0.000007747 29 -100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 -100%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 -100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 -100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 -100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 -100%
2007 23 0.000005753 23 -100%
2008 13 0.000003307 13 -100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 -100%
2010 13 0.000003518 13 -100%
2011 22 0.000006015 22 -100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2013 26 0.000007132 5 21 -62%
2014 25 0.000006745 25 -100%
2015 23 0.000006215 5 18 -57%
2016 39 0.00001063 5 34 -74%
2017 51 0.000014261 51 -100%
2018 40 0.000011377 6 34 -70%
2019 59 0.000016998 11 48 -63%
2020 36 0.000010777 5 31 -72%
2021 41 0.000012102 11 30 -46%
2022 46 0.000013597 13 33 -43%
2023 42 0.000012684 19 23 -10%
2024 66 0.000019829 40 26 21%

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