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How popular is “Reilly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Reilly” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Reilly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Reilly” 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
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 13 0.000003774 8 5 23%
1981 16 0.000004625 5 11 -38%
1982 19 0.000005416 8 11 -16%
1983 20 0.000005775 7 13 -30%
1984 21 0.000006019 5 16 -52%
1985 46 0.000012888 7 39 -70%
1986 51 0.000014338 16 35 -37%
1987 36 0.000009984 17 19 -6%
1988 46 0.000012449 14 32 -39%
1989 46 0.000011965 21 25 -9%
1990 95 0.000024036 52 43 9%
1991 83 0.000021308 38 45 -8%
1992 93 0.000024211 39 54 -16%
1993 139 0.000036867 69 70 -1%
1994 144 0.000038734 78 66 8%
1995 179 0.000048878 84 95 -6%
1996 316 0.000086642 173 143 9%
1997 543 0.000149762 360 183 33%
1998 538 0.000146267 379 159 41%
1999 498 0.000134818 324 174 30%
2000 483 0.000127781 289 194 20%
2001 527 0.000140781 325 202 23%
2002 509 0.000136158 305 204 20%
2003 472 0.000124135 276 196 17%
2004 436 0.000114109 268 168 23%
2005 419 0.000108977 241 178 15%
2006 352 0.000088975 178 174 1%
2007 417 0.00010431 199 218 -5%
2008 402 0.000102273 193 209 -4%
2009 335 0.000087692 163 172 -3%
2010 302 0.000081716 139 163 -8%
2011 283 0.000077369 140 143 -1%
2012 257 0.000070269 108 149 -16%
2013 217 0.000059523 103 114 -5%
2014 193 0.000052072 89 104 -8%
2015 174 0.000047015 90 84 3%
2016 194 0.00005288 99 95 2%
2017 139 0.000038868 75 64 8%
2018 142 0.000040388 72 70 1%
2019 153 0.00004408 81 72 6%
2020 132 0.000039514 81 51 23%
2021 125 0.000036895 65 60 4%
2022 120 0.00003547 65 55 8%
2023 106 0.000032013 50 56 -6%
2024 109 0.000032747 63 46 16%

Explore other names

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