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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Rebel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rebel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rebel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rebel” 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
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 100%
1954 15 0.000003768 10 5 33%
1956 18 0.000004366 11 7 22%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 20 0.000004828 12 8 20%
1962 27 0.000006691 16 11 19%
1963 23 0.000005811 11 12 -4%
1964 26 0.000006688 21 5 62%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 42 0.000012372 42 100%
1968 25 0.0000074 20 5 60%
1969 18 0.000005179 18 100%
1970 21 0.000005823 12 9 14%
1971 15 0.00000437 15 100%
1972 18 0.000005727 11 7 22%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 100%
1975 16 0.000005299 9 7 13%
1976 14 0.000004614 6 8 -14%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 15 0.000004726 7 8 -7%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1980 17 0.000004935 11 6 29%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1987 20 0.000005547 7 13 -30%
1988 14 0.000003789 8 6 14%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1992 14 0.000003645 6 8 -14%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 17 0.000004573 9 8 6%
1995 11 0.000003004 5 6 -9%
1996 11 0.000003016 5 6 -9%
1997 16 0.000004413 10 6 25%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%
2002 12 0.00000321 5 7 -17%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 -100%
2004 11 0.000002879 5 6 -9%
2005 12 0.000003121 5 7 -17%
2006 16 0.000004044 6 10 -25%
2007 21 0.000005253 5 16 -52%
2008 30 0.000007632 10 20 -33%
2009 26 0.000006806 5 21 -62%
2010 32 0.000008659 10 22 -38%
2011 27 0.000007382 8 19 -41%
2012 23 0.000006289 6 17 -48%
2013 102 0.000027978 47 55 -8%
2014 106 0.000028599 58 48 9%
2015 129 0.000034856 84 45 30%
2016 146 0.000039796 102 44 40%
2017 121 0.000033835 72 49 19%
2018 163 0.000046361 106 57 30%
2019 131 0.000037742 85 46 30%
2020 152 0.000045501 94 58 24%
2021 186 0.0000549 130 56 40%
2022 105 0.000031036 68 37 30%
2023 101 0.000030503 61 40 21%
2024 102 0.000030644 65 37 27%

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