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How popular is “Rocket” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rocket” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rocket” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rocket” 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
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 -100%
2008 18 0.000004579 18 -100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 -100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 -100%
2012 14 0.000003828 14 -100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 -100%
2014 20 0.000005396 7 13 -30%
2015 37 0.000009998 11 26 -41%
2016 23 0.000006269 23 -100%
2017 37 0.000010346 9 28 -51%
2018 32 0.000009102 7 25 -56%
2019 30 0.000008643 6 24 -60%
2020 19 0.000005688 19 -100%
2021 34 0.000010036 5 29 -71%
2022 26 0.000007685 26 -100%
2023 13 0.000003926 13 -100%
2024 18 0.000005408 18 -100%

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