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How popular is “Rich” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rich” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rich” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rich” 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 8 0.000039705 8 -100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 -100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1884 9 0.000036967 9 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1914 11 0.000007766 11 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 9 0.000003909 9 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 -100%
1940 16 0.000006948 16 -100%
1941 20 0.000008209 20 -100%
1942 26 0.000009517 26 -100%
1943 41 0.000014526 41 -100%
1944 32 0.000011896 32 -100%
1945 26 0.000009801 26 -100%
1946 53 0.000016587 53 -100%
1947 48 0.000013325 48 -100%
1948 52 0.000015061 52 -100%
1949 27 0.000007748 27 -100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 -100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 -100%
1952 35 0.000009215 35 -100%
1953 26 0.000006747 26 -100%
1954 23 0.000005778 23 -100%
1955 24 0.000005977 24 -100%
1956 70 0.000016978 70 -100%
1957 136 0.000032364 136 -100%
1958 168 0.00004064 168 -100%
1959 229 0.000055075 229 -100%
1960 232 0.000055852 232 -100%
1961 232 0.000056008 232 -100%
1962 255 0.000063191 255 -100%
1963 230 0.000058107 230 -100%
1964 224 0.000057619 224 -100%
1965 166 0.000045787 166 -100%
1966 124 0.000035677 124 -100%
1967 122 0.000035936 122 -100%
1968 116 0.000034336 116 -100%
1969 89 0.000025609 89 -100%
1970 65 0.000018023 65 -100%
1971 79 0.000023016 79 -100%
1972 40 0.000012727 40 -100%
1973 31 0.000010275 31 -100%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 -100%
1975 19 0.000006293 19 -100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 -100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 -100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 -100%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 -100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 -100%
1981 17 0.000004914 17 -100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 -100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 -100%
1985 20 0.000005604 20 -100%
1986 14 0.000003936 14 -100%
1987 14 0.000003883 14 -100%
1988 20 0.000005413 20 -100%
1989 24 0.000006243 24 -100%
1990 21 0.000005313 21 -100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 -100%
1992 17 0.000004426 17 -100%
1993 15 0.000003978 15 -100%
1994 18 0.000004842 18 -100%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 -100%
1996 24 0.00000658 24 -100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 -100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 -100%
1999 22 0.000005956 22 -100%
2000 18 0.000004762 18 -100%
2001 19 0.000005076 19 -100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 -100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 -100%
2004 19 0.000004973 19 -100%
2005 23 0.000005982 23 -100%
2006 27 0.000006825 27 -100%
2007 28 0.000007004 28 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 18 0.000004712 18 -100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 -100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 18 0.000004937 18 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 18 0.000004864 18 -100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 -100%
2017 30 0.000008389 30 -100%
2018 29 0.000008248 29 -100%
2019 30 0.000008643 30 -100%
2020 33 0.000009879 33 -100%
2021 34 0.000010036 34 -100%
2022 29 0.000008572 29 -100%
2023 28 0.000008456 28 -100%
2024 27 0.000008112 27 -100%

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