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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Reef” in the USA?

Number of people named “Reef” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Reef” by birth year

This chart shows how “Reef” 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
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 -100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 -100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 -100%
2002 24 0.00000642 24 -100%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 -100%
2004 27 0.000007066 27 -100%
2005 32 0.000008323 32 -100%
2006 47 0.00001188 47 -100%
2007 39 0.000009756 39 -100%
2008 51 0.000012975 51 -100%
2009 51 0.00001335 51 -100%
2010 64 0.000017317 64 -100%
2011 72 0.000019684 72 -100%
2012 58 0.000015858 7 51 -76%
2013 54 0.000014812 5 49 -81%
2014 54 0.000014569 54 -100%
2015 51 0.00001378 51 -100%
2016 57 0.000015537 57 -100%
2017 51 0.000014261 51 -100%
2018 61 0.00001735 8 53 -74%
2019 76 0.000021896 5 71 -87%
2020 58 0.000017362 58 -100%
2021 89 0.00002627 8 81 -82%
2022 68 0.0000201 7 61 -79%
2023 74 0.000022348 6 68 -84%
2024 62 0.000018627 10 52 -68%

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