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How popular is “Rockford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rockford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rockford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rockford” 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
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 -100%
1946 12 0.000003756 12 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 -100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 -100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 -100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 -100%
1959 19 0.00000457 19 -100%
1960 15 0.000003611 15 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1967 13 0.000003829 13 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 -100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 -100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 -100%
1979 20 0.000006011 20 -100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 -100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 -100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 -100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 -100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 -100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 -100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 -100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 -100%
2015 19 0.000005134 19 -100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 -100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 -100%
2018 18 0.00000512 18 -100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 -100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 -100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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