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How popular is “Riot” in the USA?

Number of people named “Riot” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Riot” by birth year

This chart shows how “Riot” 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
2007 9 0.000002251 9 -100%
2008 13 0.000003307 13 -100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 -100%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 -100%
2011 36 0.000009842 36 -100%
2012 61 0.000016679 6 55 -80%
2013 54 0.000014812 11 43 -59%
2014 75 0.000020235 14 61 -63%
2015 70 0.000018914 9 61 -74%
2016 84 0.000022896 11 73 -74%
2017 65 0.000018176 16 49 -51%
2018 90 0.000025598 13 77 -71%
2019 93 0.000026794 15 78 -68%
2020 99 0.000029636 19 80 -62%
2021 103 0.000030402 18 85 -65%
2022 127 0.000037539 18 109 -72%
2023 122 0.000036845 15 107 -75%
2024 191 0.000057383 32 159 -66%

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