How popular is “Providence” in the USA?

Number of people named “Providence” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Providence” by birth year

This chart shows how “Providence” 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	Bias toward female
1905	5	0.000011795	5	100%
1907	5	0.000010744	5	100%
1909	6	0.000011737	6	100%
1910	11	0.000018622	11	100%
1911	7	0.000010865	7	100%
1912	5	0.00000506	5	100%
1913	8	0.000007035	8	100%
1914	10	0.00000706	10	100%
1915	17	0.000009277	17	100%
1916	25	0.000012924	25	100%
1917	25	0.000012458	25	100%
1918	16	0.000007369	16	100%
1919	12	0.000005687	12	100%
1920	12	0.000005304	12	100%
1921	19	0.000008139	19	100%
1922	17	0.000007426	17	100%
1923	16	0.000006949	16	100%
1924	29	0.000012177	29	100%
1925	14	0.000006	14	100%
1926	13	0.000005662	13	100%
1927	14	0.000006036	14	100%
1928	14	0.000006192	14	100%
1929	8	0.000003649	8	100%
1930	17	0.000007646	17	100%
1931	13	0.000006178	13	100%
1932	10	0.000004736	10	100%
1933	12	0.000006002	12	100%
1934	11	0.000005297	11	100%
1935	11	0.000005263	11	100%
1937	12	0.000005632	12	100%
1938	11	0.000004972	11	100%
1939	6	0.000002723	6	100%
1940	8	0.000003474	8	100%
1941	8	0.000003283	8	100%
1942	12	0.000004393	12	100%
1943	5	0.000001771	5	100%
1945	6	0.000002262	6	100%
1946	5	0.000001565	5	100%
1947	7	0.000001943	7	100%
1949	8	0.000002296	8	100%
1950	6	0.000001713	6	100%
1951	5	0.000001357	5	100%
1957	8	0.000001904	8	100%
1958	6	0.000001451	6	100%
1960	5	0.000001204	5	100%
1961	5	0.000001207	5	100%
1966	6	0.000001726	6	100%
2000	8	0.000002116	8	100%
2001	5	0.000001336	5	100%
2002	6	0.000001605	6	100%
2003	6	0.000001578	6	100%
2005	8	0.000002081	8	100%
2006	10	0.000002528	10	100%
2007	7	0.000001751	7	100%
2008	8	0.000002035	8	100%
2009	10	0.000002618	10	100%
2010	11	0.000002976	11	100%
2011	9	0.000002461	9	100%
2012	7	0.000001914	7	100%
2013	14	0.00000384	14	100%
2014	12	0.000003238	12	100%
2015	11	0.000002972	11	100%
2016	12	0.000003271	12	100%
2017	6	0.000001678	6	100%
2018	10	0.000002844	10	100%
2019	10	0.000002881	10	100%
2020	5	0.000001497	5	100%
2021	6	0.000001771	6	100%
2022	8	0.000002365	8	100%
2023	7	0.000002114	7	100%
2024	9	0.000002704	9	100%

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