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How popular is “Ripley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ripley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ripley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ripley” 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
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 18 0.000004686 13 5 44%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1998 20 0.000005437 20 100%
1999 16 0.000004332 16 100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 100%
2001 21 0.00000561 15 6 43%
2002 20 0.00000535 20 100%
2003 30 0.00000789 22 8 47%
2004 51 0.000013348 37 14 45%
2005 42 0.000010924 27 15 29%
2006 38 0.000009605 28 10 47%
2007 41 0.000010256 31 10 51%
2008 43 0.00001094 32 11 49%
2009 56 0.000014659 43 13 54%
2010 47 0.000012717 39 8 66%
2011 40 0.000010936 31 9 55%
2012 67 0.000018319 56 11 67%
2013 81 0.000022218 65 16 60%
2014 98 0.000026441 76 22 55%
2015 127 0.000034316 97 30 53%
2016 154 0.000041977 128 26 66%
2017 169 0.000047257 143 26 69%
2018 214 0.000060866 192 22 79%
2019 213 0.000061367 172 41 62%
2020 236 0.000070646 170 66 44%
2021 247 0.000072905 171 76 38%
2022 315 0.000093109 207 108 31%
2023 321 0.000096944 203 118 26%
2024 320 0.000096139 186 134 16%

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