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How popular is “Pryor” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pryor” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Pryor” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pryor” 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%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 -100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 -100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 -100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 -100%
2016 19 0.000005179 5 14 -47%
2017 21 0.000005872 5 16 -52%
2018 43 0.00001223 6 37 -72%
2019 51 0.000014693 7 44 -73%
2020 31 0.00000928 8 23 -48%
2021 33 0.00000974 9 24 -45%
2022 30 0.000008868 9 21 -40%
2023 17 0.000005134 17 -100%
2024 24 0.00000721 7 17 -42%

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