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How popular is “Promise” in the USA?

Number of people named “Promise” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Promise” by birth year

This chart shows how “Promise” 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
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 100%
1981 15 0.000004336 15 100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 100%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 100%
1984 10 0.000002866 10 100%
1985 23 0.000006444 23 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1987 21 0.000005824 21 100%
1988 16 0.00000433 16 100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 100%
1991 12 0.000003081 12 100%
1992 25 0.000006508 20 5 60%
1993 25 0.000006631 25 100%
1994 40 0.000010759 40 100%
1995 50 0.000013653 45 5 80%
1996 40 0.000010967 40 100%
1997 57 0.000015721 57 100%
1998 60 0.000016312 60 100%
1999 66 0.000017867 61 5 85%
2000 80 0.000021165 74 6 85%
2001 105 0.000028049 99 6 89%
2002 76 0.00002033 68 8 79%
2003 106 0.000027878 98 8 85%
2004 116 0.000030359 107 9 84%
2005 125 0.000032511 116 9 86%
2006 159 0.00004019 149 10 87%
2007 189 0.000047277 179 10 89%
2008 217 0.000055207 203 14 87%
2009 217 0.000056804 203 14 87%
2010 235 0.000063587 217 18 85%
2011 226 0.000061786 217 9 92%
2012 220 0.000060153 211 9 92%
2013 234 0.000064186 218 16 86%
2014 260 0.000070149 249 11 92%
2015 264 0.000071334 246 18 86%
2016 225 0.00006133 215 10 91%
2017 263 0.000073542 242 21 84%
2018 312 0.00008874 295 17 89%
2019 346 0.000099685 319 27 84%
2020 344 0.000102976 319 25 85%
2021 406 0.000119837 388 18 91%
2022 402 0.000118825 364 38 81%
2023 420 0.000126842 393 27 87%
2024 357 0.000107255 336 21 88%

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