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How popular is “Romney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Romney” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Romney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Romney” 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
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 -100%
1963 16 0.000004042 6 10 -25%
1964 14 0.000003601 7 7 0%
1965 13 0.000003586 8 5 23%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 5 6 -9%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 6 5 9%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 -100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 -100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 -100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 -100%

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