How popular is “Raven” in the USA?

Number of people named “Raven” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Raven” by birth year

This chart shows how “Raven” 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
1921	5	0.000002142		5	-100%
1938	5	0.00000226		5	-100%
1941	6	0.000002463	6		100%
1942	10	0.000003661	5	5	0%
1943	12	0.000004251	5	7	-17%
1944	8	0.000002974		8	-100%
1945	15	0.000005654	6	9	-20%
1946	5	0.000001565		5	-100%
1947	18	0.000004997	13	5	44%
1948	16	0.000004634	9	7	13%
1949	15	0.000004304	7	8	-7%
1951	5	0.000001357	5		100%
1952	11	0.000002896	5	6	-9%
1953	12	0.000003114	12		100%
1954	11	0.000002763	5	6	-9%
1955	14	0.000003487	5	9	-29%
1956	15	0.000003638	6	9	-20%
1957	15	0.00000357	8	7	7%
1958	19	0.000004596	13	6	37%
1959	15	0.000003608	8	7	7%
1960	21	0.000005056	11	10	5%
1961	23	0.000005552	8	15	-30%
1962	23	0.0000057	13	10	13%
1963	22	0.000005558	14	8	27%
1964	13	0.000003344	5	8	-23%
1965	21	0.000005792	14	7	33%
1966	30	0.000008631	22	8	47%
1967	20	0.000005891	14	6	40%
1968	19	0.000005624	14	5	47%
1969	31	0.00000892	23	8	48%
1970	23	0.000006377	8	15	-30%
1971	33	0.000009614	26	7	58%
1972	31	0.000009863	25	6	61%
1973	24	0.000007955	11	13	-8%
1974	27	0.000008882	15	12	11%
1975	26	0.000008611	17	9	31%
1976	110	0.000036252	100	10	82%
1977	319	0.000100425	299	20	87%
1978	367	0.000115632	342	25	86%
1979	363	0.000109107	346	17	91%
1980	430	0.000124836	408	22	90%
1981	402	0.000116206	380	22	89%
1982	484	0.000137972	469	15	94%
1983	438	0.000126468	425	13	94%
1984	421	0.000120673	407	14	93%
1985	423	0.000118517	403	20	91%
1986	344	0.000096709	325	19	89%
1987	371	0.000102895	348	23	88%
1988	346	0.000093639	327	19	89%
1989	503	0.000130838	476	27	89%
1990	1821	0.000460724	1759	62	93%
1991	2079	0.000533725	2026	53	95%
1992	2106	0.000548256	2017	89	92%
1993	2394	0.000634966	2285	109	91%
1994	2179	0.000586123	2075	104	90%
1995	1855	0.000506532	1757	98	89%
1996	1736	0.000475982	1622	114	87%
1997	1923	0.000530373	1781	142	85%
1998	1822	0.00049535	1653	169	81%
1999	1715	0.000464283	1527	188	78%
2000	1620	0.000428582	1447	173	79%
2001	1533	0.000409522	1355	178	77%
2002	1497	0.00040045	1338	159	79%
2003	1565	0.000411591	1428	137	82%
2004	1322	0.00034599	1219	103	84%
2005	978	0.000254367	905	73	85%
2006	805	0.000203479	736	69	83%
2007	666	0.000166596	631	35	89%
2008	542	0.00013789	499	43	84%
2009	524	0.000137166	476	48	82%
2010	527	0.000142597	488	39	85%
2011	528	0.000144349	489	39	85%
2012	597	0.000163232	553	44	85%
2013	617	0.000169242	579	38	88%
2014	656	0.000176992	619	37	89%
2015	695	0.000187792	658	37	89%
2016	676	0.000184262	636	40	88%
2017	752	0.000210279	713	39	90%
2018	790	0.000224694	749	41	90%
2019	777	0.000223859	744	33	92%
2020	789	0.000236187	749	40	90%
2021	822	0.000242625	778	44	89%
2022	829	0.000245039	772	57	86%
2023	889	0.000268483	846	43	90%
2024	859	0.000258074	813	46	89%

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