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How popular is “Retha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Retha” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Retha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Retha” 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
1884 6 0.000024645 6 100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 100%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 100%
1890 10 0.000033178 10 100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 100%
1892 9 0.000026916 9 100%
1893 13 0.000039973 13 100%
1894 13 0.000038383 13 100%
1895 17 0.00004843 17 100%
1896 20 0.000055947 20 100%
1897 23 0.000066291 23 100%
1898 35 0.000091754 35 100%
1899 33 0.000097278 33 100%
1900 23 0.000051082 23 100%
1901 48 0.000138804 48 100%
1902 41 0.000106016 41 100%
1903 27 0.000070829 27 100%
1904 46 0.000114007 46 100%
1905 31 0.000073127 31 100%
1906 52 0.000121367 52 100%
1907 54 0.000116032 54 100%
1908 54 0.000110509 54 100%
1909 70 0.000136926 70 100%
1910 72 0.000121887 72 100%
1911 77 0.000119514 77 100%
1912 92 0.000093112 92 100%
1913 102 0.000089701 102 100%
1914 93 0.000065662 93 100%
1915 155 0.000084587 155 100%
1916 160 0.000082712 160 100%
1917 190 0.00009468 190 100%
1918 218 0.000100409 218 100%
1919 213 0.000100936 213 100%
1920 187 0.000082647 187 100%
1921 214 0.000091668 214 100%
1922 215 0.000093921 215 100%
1923 205 0.000089034 205 100%
1924 252 0.000105811 252 100%
1925 209 0.000089573 209 100%
1926 201 0.000087547 201 100%
1927 210 0.000090542 210 100%
1928 199 0.000088017 199 100%
1929 186 0.000084848 186 100%
1930 173 0.000077813 173 100%
1931 191 0.000090763 191 100%
1932 181 0.00008573 181 100%
1933 213 0.000106529 213 100%
1934 206 0.00009919 206 100%
1935 195 0.000093306 195 100%
1936 167 0.000080382 167 100%
1937 194 0.000091051 194 100%
1938 173 0.000078189 173 100%
1939 175 0.000079421 175 100%
1940 196 0.000085118 196 100%
1941 176 0.000072237 176 100%
1942 161 0.000058935 161 100%
1943 173 0.000061292 173 100%
1944 154 0.000057247 154 100%
1945 167 0.00006295 167 100%
1946 161 0.000050386 161 100%
1947 159 0.000044138 159 100%
1948 172 0.000049819 172 100%
1949 183 0.000052514 183 100%
1950 189 0.000053948 189 100%
1951 177 0.000048049 177 100%
1952 175 0.000046077 175 100%
1953 159 0.00004126 159 100%
1954 161 0.000040445 161 100%
1955 167 0.000041593 167 100%
1956 142 0.000034441 142 100%
1957 152 0.000036172 152 100%
1958 148 0.000035802 148 100%
1959 125 0.000030063 125 100%
1960 132 0.000031778 132 100%
1961 121 0.000029211 121 100%
1962 125 0.000030976 125 100%
1963 97 0.000024506 97 100%
1964 74 0.000019035 74 100%
1965 79 0.00002179 79 100%
1966 66 0.000018989 66 100%
1967 64 0.000018852 64 100%
1968 65 0.00001924 65 100%
1969 49 0.000014099 49 100%
1970 48 0.000013309 48 100%
1971 30 0.00000874 30 100%
1972 38 0.00001209 38 100%
1973 29 0.000009613 29 100%
1974 28 0.000009211 28 100%
1975 25 0.00000828 25 100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 100%
1978 15 0.000004726 15 100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 100%
1980 23 0.000006677 23 100%
1981 15 0.000004336 15 100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 100%
1986 17 0.000004779 17 100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%

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