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How popular is “Rochester” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rochester” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rochester” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rochester” 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
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 -100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 -100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1936 11 0.000005295 11 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 -100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 -100%
1943 20 0.000007086 20 -100%
1944 22 0.000008178 22 -100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 -100%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 -100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 -100%
1948 13 0.000003765 13 -100%
1949 13 0.000003731 13 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 -100%
1957 20 0.000004759 20 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%

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