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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Purity” in the USA?

Number of people named “Purity” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Purity” by birth year

This chart shows how “Purity” 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
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 100%
2006 17 0.000004297 17 100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 100%
2011 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 15 0.000004266 15 100%
2019 15 0.000004322 15 100%
2020 20 0.000005987 20 100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 100%
2022 20 0.000005912 20 100%
2023 23 0.000006946 23 100%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 100%

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