How popular is “Rebecca” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rebecca” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rebecca” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rebecca” 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
1880	236	0.001171309	236		100%
1881	226	0.001172881	226		100%
1882	259	0.001169126	259		100%
1883	244	0.001124704	244		100%
1884	278	0.001141867	278		100%
1885	302	0.001253872	302		100%
1886	355	0.001390434	355		100%
1887	275	0.001111596	275		100%
1888	337	0.001125306	337		100%
1889	337	0.001166308	337		100%
1890	374	0.001240872	374		100%
1891	320	0.001116254	320		100%
1892	353	0.001055704	353		100%
1893	358	0.001100783	358		100%
1894	399	0.001178068	399		100%
1895	386	0.001099652	386		100%
1896	371	0.001037809	371		100%
1897	376	0.001083708	376		100%
1898	376	0.000985699	376		100%
1899	347	0.001022893	347		100%
1900	503	0.001117137	503		100%
1901	342	0.000988977	342		100%
1902	382	0.000987762	382		100%
1903	334	0.00087618	334		100%
1904	371	0.000919489	371		100%
1905	402	0.000948288	402		100%
1906	397	0.000926594	397		100%
1907	400	0.000859494	400		100%
1908	451	0.000922953	451		100%
1909	477	0.000933055	470	7	97%
1910	519	0.000878602	519		100%
1911	546	0.00084746	546		100%
1912	754	0.00076311	754		100%
1913	744	0.00065429	739	5	99%
1914	897	0.000633321	890	7	98%
1915	1169	0.000637952	1169		100%
1916	1132	0.000585189	1132		100%
1917	1215	0.000605457	1215		100%
1918	1253	0.000577124	1243	10	98%
1919	1267	0.000600404	1267		100%
1920	1277	0.000564384	1269	8	99%
1921	1272	0.000544869	1272		100%
1922	1303	0.000569205	1296	7	99%
1923	1281	0.000556356	1274	7	99%
1924	1364	0.000572722	1358	6	99%
1925	1211	0.000519007	1203	8	99%
1926	1149	0.000500456	1144	5	99%
1927	1266	0.000545841	1260	6	99%
1928	1121	0.000495812	1121		100%
1929	1084	0.000494489	1084		100%
1930	1121	0.000504208	1114	7	99%
1931	1097	0.000521292	1089	8	99%
1932	1198	0.000567425	1191	7	99%
1933	1072	0.000536148	1072		100%
1934	1167	0.000561918	1161	6	99%
1935	1208	0.000578018	1208		100%
1936	1210	0.000582409	1200	10	98%
1937	1219	0.00057212	1210	9	99%
1938	1582	0.000715004	1574	8	99%
1939	1805	0.000819173	1796	9	99%
1940	2568	0.00111522	2555	13	99%
1941	2932	0.001203403	2924	8	99%
1942	3252	0.001190416	3241	11	99%
1943	3277	0.001161003	3270	7	100%
1944	3258	0.001211117	3246	12	99%
1945	3337	0.001257864	3331	6	100%
1946	4850	0.001517851	4840	10	100%
1947	6346	0.001761641	6333	13	100%
1948	6811	0.001972763	6795	16	100%
1949	8796	0.002524122	8778	18	100%
1950	9443	0.002695414	9426	17	100%
1951	10946	0.002971438	10931	15	100%
1952	12249	0.003225114	12226	23	100%
1953	12982	0.00336876	12961	21	100%
1954	13228	0.003323027	13208	20	100%
1955	12418	0.00309284	12397	21	100%
1956	12189	0.002956316	12170	19	100%
1957	11514	0.00274003	11482	32	99%
1958	10432	0.002523523	10416	16	100%
1959	10494	0.002523814	10474	20	100%
1960	9994	0.002405981	9970	24	100%
1961	10267	0.002478574	10237	30	99%
1962	9425	0.002335596	9403	22	100%
1963	9421	0.002380122	9392	29	99%
1964	9498	0.002443149	9475	23	100%
1965	10237	0.00282365	10210	27	99%
1966	9814	0.00282364	9777	37	99%
1967	9853	0.002902297	9823	30	99%
1968	10253	0.003034857	10225	28	99%
1969	10988	0.00316172	10950	38	99%
1970	10884	0.003017873	10855	29	99%
1971	12238	0.003565482	12192	46	99%
1972	13317	0.004237043	13253	64	99%
1973	14925	0.004947152	14869	56	99%
1974	15214	0.005004607	15165	49	99%
1975	13996	0.004635367	13926	70	99%
1976	14543	0.004792868	14490	53	99%
1977	14254	0.004487337	14196	58	99%
1978	13851	0.004364073	13795	56	99%
1979	14602	0.004388939	14550	52	99%
1980	15328	0.004449985	15280	48	99%
1981	16801	0.004856658	16737	64	99%
1982	15793	0.004502044	15729	64	99%
1983	14773	0.004265537	14714	59	99%
1984	13394	0.003839192	13349	45	99%
1985	12756	0.003574	12704	52	99%
1986	11849	0.003331105	11793	56	99%
1987	11673	0.003237451	11626	47	99%
1988	11915	0.00322459	11876	39	99%
1989	12520	0.003256645	12435	85	99%
1990	13715	0.003469975	13675	40	99%
1991	13332	0.003422617	13300	32	100%
1992	13130	0.003418138	13110	20	100%
1993	12341	0.003273233	12321	20	100%
1994	11299	0.003039283	11283	16	100%
1995	9924	0.00270988	9910	14	100%
1996	10638	0.002916762	10626	12	100%
1997	9642	0.002659313	9632	10	100%
1998	8434	0.002292965	8423	11	100%
1999	7448	0.002016315	7437	11	100%
2000	7086	0.001874651	7078	8	100%
2001	5900	0.001576112	5893	7	100%
2002	5230	0.001399035	5222	8	100%
2003	4875	0.001282112	4869	6	100%
2004	4494	0.001176156	4472	22	99%
2005	4026	0.001047116	4017	9	100%
2006	3577	0.000904153	3571	6	100%
2007	3220	0.000805467	3215	5	100%
2008	2928	0.000744912	2920	8	99%
2009	2476	0.000648138	2471	5	100%
2010	2298	0.000621797	2298		100%
2011	2118	0.000579038	2118		100%
2012	2019	0.000552036	2019		100%
2013	1805	0.000495108	1805		100%
2014	1781	0.000480523	1781		100%
2015	1728	0.000466912	1728		100%
2016	1578	0.000430125	1578		100%
2017	1440	0.000402663	1433	7	99%
2018	1459	0.000414972	1459		100%
2019	1260	0.000363015	1260		100%
2020	1211	0.000362512	1211		100%
2021	1049	0.000309627	1049		100%
2022	1074	0.000317457	1074		100%
2023	984	0.000297174	984		100%
2024	910	0.000273396	910		100%

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