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How popular is “Roe” in the USA?

Number of people named “Roe” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Roe” by birth year

This chart shows how “Roe” 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
1881 9 0.000046708 9 -100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1890 10 0.000033178 5 5 0%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 -100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 -100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 -100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 -100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 -100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 -100%
1914 16 0.000011297 16 -100%
1915 19 0.000010369 19 -100%
1916 25 0.000012924 25 -100%
1917 23 0.000011461 23 -100%
1918 23 0.000010594 23 -100%
1919 21 0.000009951 21 -100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 -100%
1921 20 0.000008567 20 -100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 -100%
1923 19 0.000008252 19 -100%
1924 17 0.000007138 5 12 -41%
1925 21 0.000009 7 14 -33%
1926 15 0.000006533 15 -100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 -100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 19 0.000009029 19 -100%
1932 18 0.000008526 18 -100%
1933 21 0.000010503 21 -100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 -100%
1935 15 0.000007177 15 -100%
1936 18 0.000008664 7 11 -22%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 15 0.000006779 5 10 -33%
1939 13 0.0000059 13 -100%
1940 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1941 12 0.000004925 12 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 -100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 -100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 -100%
1947 20 0.000005552 7 13 -30%
1948 17 0.000004924 7 10 -18%
1949 16 0.000004591 5 11 -38%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 -100%
1952 18 0.000004739 9 9 0%
1953 16 0.000004152 16 -100%
1954 15 0.000003768 5 10 -33%
1955 20 0.000004981 10 10 0%
1956 13 0.000003153 8 5 23%
1957 14 0.000003332 5 9 -29%
1958 11 0.000002661 5 6 -9%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1961 16 0.000003863 5 11 -38%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 100%
2016 19 0.000005179 11 8 16%
2017 20 0.000005593 10 10 0%
2018 26 0.000007395 11 15 -15%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 -100%
2021 26 0.000007674 17 9 31%
2022 24 0.000007094 13 11 8%
2023 32 0.000009664 18 14 13%
2024 20 0.000006009 11 9 10%

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