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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Prosper” in the USA?

Number of people named “Prosper” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Prosper” by birth year

This chart shows how “Prosper” 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
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 -100%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 -100%
1917 14 0.000006976 14 -100%
1918 16 0.000007369 16 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 -100%
1923 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 -100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 -100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2013 14 0.00000384 14 -100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 -100%
2015 22 0.000005944 22 -100%
2016 18 0.000004906 18 -100%
2017 29 0.000008109 8 21 -45%
2018 33 0.000009386 8 25 -52%
2019 35 0.000010084 8 27 -54%
2020 30 0.00000898 7 23 -53%
2021 51 0.000015053 10 41 -61%
2022 51 0.000015075 5 46 -80%
2023 51 0.000015402 10 41 -61%
2024 61 0.000018327 12 49 -61%

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