Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Ron” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ron” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ron” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ron” 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
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 -100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 -100%
1931 15 0.000007128 15 -100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 -100%
1933 38 0.000019005 38 -100%
1934 65 0.000031298 65 -100%
1935 83 0.000039715 83 -100%
1936 93 0.000044764 93 -100%
1937 137 0.000064299 137 -100%
1938 143 0.000064631 143 -100%
1939 198 0.000089859 198 -100%
1940 214 0.000092935 214 -100%
1941 293 0.000120258 293 -100%
1942 425 0.000155574 425 -100%
1943 522 0.000184939 522 -100%
1944 523 0.000194418 523 -100%
1945 545 0.000205435 545 -100%
1946 829 0.000259443 829 -100%
1947 922 0.000255946 922 -100%
1948 770 0.000223026 770 -100%
1949 526 0.000150942 526 -100%
1950 349 0.000099619 349 -100%
1951 287 0.00007791 287 -100%
1952 277 0.000072933 277 -100%
1953 349 0.000090564 349 -100%
1954 405 0.000101741 405 -100%
1955 501 0.00012478 501 -100%
1956 763 0.000185058 763 -100%
1957 1281 0.000304844 1281 -100%
1958 1698 0.00041075 1698 -100%
1959 1875 0.000450939 1875 -100%
1960 1888 0.000454522 1888 -100%
1961 1841 0.000444439 1841 -100%
1962 1714 0.000424744 5 1709 -99%
1963 1598 0.000403719 5 1593 -99%
1964 1334 0.000343142 1334 -100%
1965 1143 0.000315271 1143 -100%
1966 940 0.000270453 940 -100%
1967 849 0.000250081 8 841 -98%
1968 825 0.000244197 6 819 -99%
1969 1011 0.000290908 8 1003 -98%
1970 785 0.000217662 785 -100%
1971 673 0.000196075 7 666 -98%
1972 504 0.000160357 5 499 -98%
1973 410 0.000135902 410 -100%
1974 377 0.000124013 377 -100%
1975 327 0.0001083 7 320 -96%
1976 346 0.00011403 346 -100%
1977 316 0.000099481 7 309 -96%
1978 270 0.00008507 270 -100%
1979 281 0.00008446 281 -100%
1980 302 0.000087676 7 295 -95%
1981 242 0.000069955 242 -100%
1982 241 0.000068701 241 -100%
1983 185 0.000053417 5 180 -95%
1984 179 0.000051308 179 -100%
1985 178 0.000049872 178 -100%
1986 186 0.00005229 186 -100%
1987 168 0.000046594 168 -100%
1988 148 0.000040054 148 -100%
1989 185 0.000048121 185 -100%
1990 191 0.000048324 191 -100%
1991 155 0.000039792 155 -100%
1992 137 0.000035665 137 -100%
1993 141 0.000037398 141 -100%
1994 119 0.000032009 119 -100%
1995 127 0.000034679 127 -100%
1996 123 0.000033725 123 -100%
1997 117 0.000032269 117 -100%
1998 103 0.000028003 103 -100%
1999 106 0.000028696 106 -100%
2000 95 0.000025133 95 -100%
2001 88 0.000023508 88 -100%
2002 79 0.000021133 79 -100%
2003 86 0.000022618 86 -100%
2004 74 0.000019367 74 -100%
2005 84 0.000021847 84 -100%
2006 92 0.000023255 92 -100%
2007 69 0.00001726 69 -100%
2008 49 0.000012466 49 -100%
2009 63 0.000016491 63 -100%
2010 58 0.000015694 58 -100%
2011 53 0.00001449 53 -100%
2012 59 0.000016132 59 -100%
2013 43 0.000011795 43 -100%
2014 62 0.000016728 62 -100%
2015 39 0.000010538 39 -100%
2016 48 0.000013084 48 -100%
2017 47 0.000013142 47 -100%
2018 53 0.000015074 53 -100%
2019 31 0.000008931 31 -100%
2020 32 0.000009579 32 -100%
2021 35 0.000010331 35 -100%
2022 33 0.000009754 33 -100%
2023 37 0.000011174 37 -100%
2024 31 0.000009314 31 -100%

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