Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Ricardo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ricardo” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ricardo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ricardo” 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
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 -100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 -100%
1909 14 0.000027385 14 -100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 -100%
1911 17 0.000026386 17 -100%
1912 25 0.000025302 25 -100%
1913 17 0.00001495 17 -100%
1914 26 0.000018357 26 -100%
1915 37 0.000020192 37 -100%
1916 40 0.000020678 40 -100%
1917 46 0.000022923 46 -100%
1918 52 0.000023951 52 -100%
1919 61 0.000028907 61 -100%
1920 74 0.000032705 74 -100%
1921 54 0.000023131 54 -100%
1922 85 0.000037132 85 -100%
1923 81 0.000035179 81 -100%
1924 114 0.000047867 114 -100%
1925 138 0.000059144 138 -100%
1926 99 0.00004312 99 -100%
1927 152 0.000065535 152 -100%
1928 167 0.000073863 167 -100%
1929 204 0.000093059 204 -100%
1930 216 0.000097153 216 -100%
1931 176 0.000083635 176 -100%
1932 159 0.000075309 159 -100%
1933 168 0.000084023 168 -100%
1934 189 0.000091005 189 -100%
1935 162 0.000077516 162 -100%
1936 158 0.00007605 158 -100%
1937 196 0.00009199 196 -100%
1938 186 0.000084065 186 -100%
1939 179 0.000081237 179 -100%
1940 207 0.000089895 207 -100%
1941 218 0.000089475 218 -100%
1942 211 0.000077238 6 205 -94%
1943 211 0.000074755 211 -100%
1944 253 0.000094049 253 -100%
1945 287 0.000108183 5 282 -97%
1946 349 0.000109223 349 -100%
1947 379 0.00010521 379 -100%
1948 453 0.000131209 5 448 -98%
1949 492 0.000141186 492 -100%
1950 614 0.00017526 614 -100%
1951 676 0.000183509 6 670 -98%
1952 863 0.000227225 863 -100%
1953 1056 0.000274026 5 1051 -99%
1954 1103 0.000277086 10 1093 -98%
1955 1113 0.000277205 10 1103 -98%
1956 1109 0.000268976 7 1102 -99%
1957 1189 0.000282951 8 1181 -99%
1958 1300 0.000314473 5 1295 -99%
1959 1353 0.000325397 8 1345 -99%
1960 1322 0.000318262 9 1313 -99%
1961 1255 0.000302972 11 1244 -98%
1962 1265 0.000313478 11 1254 -98%
1963 1333 0.000336769 6 1327 -99%
1964 1327 0.000341341 10 1317 -98%
1965 1291 0.000356094 12 1279 -98%
1966 1211 0.000348424 10 1201 -98%
1967 1301 0.000383222 11 1290 -98%
1968 1359 0.00040226 9 1350 -99%
1969 1589 0.000457224 15 1574 -98%
1970 1668 0.000462496 15 1653 -98%
1971 1688 0.000491791 17 1671 -98%
1972 1709 0.000543749 9 1700 -99%
1973 1649 0.00054659 17 1632 -98%
1974 1830 0.000601974 18 1812 -98%
1975 1743 0.000577268 16 1727 -98%
1976 1795 0.00059157 11 1784 -99%
1977 1747 0.000549977 22 1725 -97%
1978 1902 0.000599268 22 1880 -98%
1979 2098 0.000630598 22 2076 -98%
1980 2340 0.000679343 16 2324 -99%
1981 2381 0.000688275 17 2364 -99%
1982 2313 0.000659357 20 2293 -98%
1983 2197 0.000634359 18 2179 -98%
1984 2224 0.000637477 15 2209 -99%
1985 2156 0.000604072 18 2138 -98%
1986 2249 0.000632261 27 2222 -98%
1987 2141 0.000593796 18 2123 -98%
1988 2525 0.000683348 22 2503 -98%
1989 2753 0.000716098 17 2736 -99%
1990 2816 0.000712464 14 2802 -99%
1991 2865 0.000735508 12 2853 -99%
1992 3041 0.000791665 18 3023 -99%
1993 2966 0.000786679 19 2947 -99%
1994 2993 0.000805078 19 2974 -99%
1995 2880 0.000786422 9 2871 -99%
1996 2896 0.000794035 14 2882 -99%
1997 2932 0.000808661 6 2926 -100%
1998 3055 0.000830568 11 3044 -99%
1999 2999 0.000811886 13 2986 -99%
2000 2923 0.0007733 5 2918 -100%
2001 2859 0.000763746 6 2853 -100%
2002 2718 0.00072707 9 2709 -99%
2003 2770 0.000728503 8 2762 -99%
2004 2789 0.000729928 8 2781 -99%
2005 2632 0.000684553 6 2626 -100%
2006 2701 0.000682728 2701 -100%
2007 2779 0.000695153 2779 -100%
2008 2757 0.000701408 2757 -100%
2009 2303 0.000602852 2303 -100%
2010 1886 0.000510317 1886 -100%
2011 1633 0.000446444 1633 -100%
2012 1567 0.00042845 1567 -100%
2013 1430 0.000392246 1430 -100%
2014 1462 0.000394455 1462 -100%
2015 1339 0.000361803 1339 -100%
2016 1297 0.000353531 1297 -100%
2017 1167 0.000326324 1167 -100%
2018 1125 0.000319975 1125 -100%
2019 1018 0.000293293 1018 -100%
2020 963 0.000288274 963 -100%
2021 946 0.000279225 946 -100%
2022 920 0.000271937 920 -100%
2023 875 0.000264255 875 -100%
2024 865 0.000259877 865 -100%

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