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How popular is “Retta” in the USA?

Number of people named “Retta” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Retta” by birth year

This chart shows how “Retta” 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 25 0.000124079 25 100%
1881 17 0.000088226 17 100%
1882 23 0.000103822 23 100%
1883 22 0.000101408 22 100%
1884 21 0.000086256 21 100%
1885 28 0.000116253 28 100%
1886 28 0.000109668 28 100%
1887 30 0.000121265 30 100%
1888 31 0.000103515 31 100%
1889 24 0.000083061 24 100%
1890 26 0.000086264 26 100%
1891 27 0.000094184 27 100%
1892 26 0.000077757 26 100%
1893 28 0.000086095 28 100%
1894 28 0.000082671 28 100%
1895 34 0.000096861 34 100%
1896 31 0.000086717 31 100%
1897 28 0.000080702 28 100%
1898 34 0.000089132 34 100%
1899 32 0.00009433 32 100%
1900 40 0.000088838 40 100%
1901 33 0.000095428 33 100%
1902 29 0.000074987 29 100%
1903 29 0.000076076 29 100%
1904 24 0.000059482 24 100%
1905 26 0.000061332 26 100%
1906 20 0.00004668 20 100%
1907 29 0.000062313 29 100%
1908 24 0.000049115 24 100%
1909 22 0.000043034 22 100%
1910 22 0.000037243 22 100%
1911 25 0.000038803 25 100%
1912 25 0.000025302 25 100%
1913 25 0.000021986 25 100%
1914 33 0.000023299 33 100%
1915 42 0.00002292 42 100%
1916 38 0.000019644 38 100%
1917 43 0.000021428 43 100%
1918 43 0.000019806 43 100%
1919 38 0.000018007 38 100%
1920 48 0.000021214 48 100%
1921 41 0.000017563 41 100%
1922 60 0.000026211 60 100%
1923 43 0.000018676 43 100%
1924 43 0.000018055 43 100%
1925 36 0.000015429 36 100%
1926 41 0.000017858 41 100%
1927 41 0.000017677 41 100%
1928 48 0.00002123 48 100%
1929 42 0.000019159 42 100%
1930 34 0.000015293 34 100%
1931 36 0.000017107 36 100%
1932 48 0.000022735 48 100%
1933 39 0.000019505 39 100%
1934 60 0.00002889 60 100%
1935 48 0.000022968 48 100%
1936 39 0.000018772 39 100%
1937 48 0.000022528 48 100%
1938 43 0.000019434 43 100%
1939 42 0.000019061 42 100%
1940 32 0.000013897 32 100%
1941 38 0.000015597 38 100%
1942 42 0.000015374 42 100%
1943 54 0.000019132 54 100%
1944 46 0.0000171 46 100%
1945 50 0.000018847 50 100%
1946 45 0.000014083 45 100%
1947 36 0.000009994 36 100%
1948 42 0.000012165 42 100%
1949 50 0.000014348 50 100%
1950 50 0.000014272 50 100%
1951 58 0.000015745 58 100%
1952 49 0.000012902 49 100%
1953 39 0.00001012 39 100%
1954 55 0.000013817 55 100%
1955 48 0.000011955 48 100%
1956 49 0.000011884 49 100%
1957 38 0.000009043 38 100%
1958 45 0.000010886 45 100%
1959 51 0.000012266 51 100%
1960 39 0.000009389 39 100%
1961 32 0.000007725 32 100%
1962 23 0.0000057 23 100%
1963 17 0.000004295 17 100%
1964 24 0.000006173 24 100%
1965 22 0.000006068 22 100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1967 16 0.000004713 16 100%
1968 25 0.0000074 25 100%
1969 15 0.000004316 15 100%
1970 18 0.000004991 18 100%
1971 18 0.000005244 18 100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 100%

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