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How popular is “Ripken” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ripken” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ripken” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ripken” 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
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 -100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 -100%
2014 19 0.000005126 19 -100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 -100%
2016 15 0.000004089 15 -100%
2017 18 0.000005033 18 -100%
2018 27 0.000007679 27 -100%
2019 28 0.000008067 28 -100%
2020 32 0.000009579 32 -100%
2021 45 0.000013282 45 -100%
2022 47 0.000013892 47 -100%
2023 46 0.000013892 46 -100%
2024 33 0.000009914 33 -100%

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