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How popular is “Rex” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rex” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rex” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rex” 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 13 0.000064521 13 -100%
1881 7 0.000036328 7 -100%
1882 13 0.000058682 13 -100%
1883 15 0.000069142 15 -100%
1884 13 0.000053397 13 -100%
1885 17 0.000070582 17 -100%
1886 26 0.000101835 26 -100%
1887 28 0.000113181 28 -100%
1888 28 0.000093497 28 -100%
1889 23 0.0000796 23 -100%
1890 30 0.000099535 30 -100%
1891 24 0.000083719 24 -100%
1892 28 0.000083739 28 -100%
1893 25 0.00007687 25 -100%
1894 30 0.000088577 30 -100%
1895 34 0.000096861 34 -100%
1896 35 0.000097906 35 -100%
1897 31 0.000089348 31 -100%
1898 39 0.00010224 39 -100%
1899 29 0.000085487 29 -100%
1900 59 0.000131036 59 -100%
1901 29 0.000083861 29 -100%
1902 46 0.000118945 46 -100%
1903 43 0.000112802 43 -100%
1904 33 0.000081787 33 -100%
1905 46 0.000108511 46 -100%
1906 61 0.000142373 61 -100%
1907 48 0.000103139 48 -100%
1908 64 0.000130973 64 -100%
1909 68 0.000133014 68 -100%
1910 65 0.000110037 65 -100%
1911 82 0.000127274 82 -100%
1912 164 0.000165981 164 -100%
1913 243 0.0002137 243 -100%
1914 334 0.000235818 334 -100%
1915 401 0.000218836 401 -100%
1916 461 0.000238315 461 -100%
1917 471 0.000234708 471 -100%
1918 509 0.000234442 509 -100%
1919 523 0.000247839 523 -100%
1920 614 0.000271364 614 -100%
1921 596 0.0002553 5 591 -98%
1922 615 0.000268658 615 -100%
1923 584 0.000253639 584 -100%
1924 594 0.000249411 5 589 -98%
1925 562 0.00024086 9 553 -97%
1926 552 0.000240428 552 -100%
1927 526 0.000226787 8 518 -97%
1928 525 0.000232205 6 519 -98%
1929 492 0.000224436 492 -100%
1930 540 0.000242884 540 -100%
1931 520 0.000247103 520 -100%
1932 586 0.000277555 6 580 -98%
1933 626 0.000313087 626 -100%
1934 631 0.00030383 631 -100%
1935 653 0.000312455 6 647 -98%
1936 612 0.000294574 612 -100%
1937 601 0.000282071 601 -100%
1938 628 0.000283832 628 -100%
1939 564 0.000255963 564 -100%
1940 552 0.00023972 5 547 -98%
1941 558 0.000229024 558 -100%
1942 527 0.000192912 6 521 -98%
1943 614 0.000217533 614 -100%
1944 574 0.000213377 574 -100%
1945 485 0.000182818 485 -100%
1946 662 0.000207179 662 -100%
1947 846 0.000234849 846 -100%
1948 903 0.000261548 903 -100%
1949 959 0.000275197 959 -100%
1950 1069 0.000305136 1069 -100%
1951 1503 0.000408009 1503 -100%
1952 1505 0.000396261 7 1498 -99%
1953 1352 0.000350837 6 1346 -99%
1954 1384 0.000347677 5 1379 -99%
1955 1400 0.000348685 1400 -100%
1956 1458 0.000353623 6 1452 -99%
1957 1333 0.000317219 7 1326 -99%
1958 1251 0.00030262 8 1243 -99%
1959 1289 0.000310005 5 1284 -99%
1960 1318 0.000317299 6 1312 -99%
1961 1279 0.000308766 10 1269 -98%
1962 1132 0.000280519 1132 -100%
1963 984 0.000248598 984 -100%
1964 964 0.000247968 7 957 -99%
1965 787 0.000217077 787 -100%
1966 718 0.00020658 718 -100%
1967 581 0.000171139 581 -100%
1968 514 0.000152142 514 -100%
1969 478 0.000137541 478 -100%
1970 507 0.000140579 507 -100%
1971 473 0.000137806 473 -100%
1972 373 0.000118677 373 -100%
1973 325 0.000107727 325 -100%
1974 297 0.000097697 297 -100%
1975 296 0.000098033 296 -100%
1976 283 0.000093267 283 -100%
1977 291 0.00009161 291 -100%
1978 255 0.000080344 255 -100%
1979 267 0.000080252 7 260 -95%
1980 305 0.000088547 5 300 -97%
1981 268 0.000077471 268 -100%
1982 266 0.000075828 266 -100%
1983 246 0.00007103 246 -100%
1984 264 0.000075672 6 258 -95%
1985 261 0.000073127 261 -100%
1986 232 0.000065222 232 -100%
1987 231 0.000064067 231 -100%
1988 247 0.000066846 247 -100%
1989 224 0.000058266 224 -100%
1990 232 0.000058697 232 -100%
1991 220 0.000056479 220 -100%
1992 207 0.000053888 207 -100%
1993 178 0.000047211 178 -100%
1994 167 0.000044921 167 -100%
1995 158 0.000043144 158 -100%
1996 139 0.000038111 139 -100%
1997 152 0.000041922 152 -100%
1998 151 0.000041053 151 -100%
1999 137 0.000037089 137 -100%
2000 112 0.00002963 112 -100%
2001 116 0.000030988 116 -100%
2002 154 0.000041195 154 -100%
2003 182 0.000047866 182 -100%
2004 182 0.000047632 182 -100%
2005 237 0.000061641 237 -100%
2006 252 0.000063698 252 -100%
2007 236 0.000059034 236 -100%
2008 274 0.000069708 274 -100%
2009 303 0.000079316 303 -100%
2010 332 0.000089833 332 -100%
2011 386 0.000105528 386 -100%
2012 385 0.000105267 385 -100%
2013 391 0.000107251 391 -100%
2014 389 0.000104954 389 -100%
2015 374 0.000101056 374 -100%
2016 423 0.0001153 423 -100%
2017 434 0.000121358 434 -100%
2018 420 0.000119457 420 -100%
2019 410 0.000118124 410 -100%
2020 377 0.000112855 377 -100%
2021 379 0.000111867 379 -100%
2022 380 0.000112322 380 -100%
2023 367 0.000110836 367 -100%
2024 316 0.000094938 316 -100%

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