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How popular is “Roosevelt” in the USA?

Number of people named “Roosevelt” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Roosevelt” by birth year

This chart shows how “Roosevelt” 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
1895 12 0.000034186 12 -100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 -100%
1899 23 0.0000678 23 -100%
1900 72 0.000159908 72 -100%
1901 90 0.000260257 90 -100%
1902 172 0.000444751 6 166 -93%
1903 196 0.000514166 196 -100%
1904 236 0.000584904 6 230 -95%
1905 272 0.000641627 8 264 -94%
1906 198 0.00046213 198 -100%
1907 220 0.000472722 220 -100%
1908 194 0.000397013 194 -100%
1909 160 0.000312974 160 -100%
1910 222 0.000375818 222 -100%
1911 197 0.000305769 197 -100%
1912 267 0.000270226 267 -100%
1913 241 0.000211941 241 -100%
1914 266 0.000187807 266 -100%
1915 272 0.000148437 272 -100%
1916 328 0.00016956 328 -100%
1917 285 0.000142021 285 -100%
1918 337 0.00015522 6 331 -96%
1919 365 0.000172966 6 359 -97%
1920 358 0.000158222 358 -100%
1921 365 0.00015635 365 -100%
1922 365 0.000159447 365 -100%
1923 430 0.000186755 5 425 -98%
1924 403 0.000169213 403 -100%
1925 449 0.000192431 449 -100%
1926 478 0.000208197 6 472 -97%
1927 483 0.000208247 483 -100%
1928 516 0.000228224 7 509 -97%
1929 500 0.000228085 5 495 -98%
1930 533 0.000239735 533 -100%
1931 474 0.000225244 6 468 -97%
1932 838 0.000396914 6 832 -99%
1933 1224 0.000612169 17 1207 -97%
1934 1028 0.000494988 11 1017 -98%
1935 765 0.000366046 7 758 -98%
1936 738 0.000355221 738 -100%
1937 688 0.000322903 8 680 -98%
1938 663 0.000299651 663 -100%
1939 594 0.000269578 8 586 -97%
1940 640 0.000277936 5 635 -98%
1941 647 0.000265553 647 -100%
1942 608 0.000222562 608 -100%
1943 611 0.00021647 611 -100%
1944 567 0.000210774 567 -100%
1945 566 0.000213351 566 -100%
1946 522 0.000163365 5 517 -98%
1947 553 0.000153512 553 -100%
1948 596 0.000172628 596 -100%
1949 612 0.000175621 5 607 -98%
1950 584 0.000166697 584 -100%
1951 557 0.000151205 557 -100%
1952 600 0.000157978 6 594 -98%
1953 587 0.000152323 587 -100%
1954 614 0.000154244 5 609 -98%
1955 597 0.000148689 9 588 -97%
1956 616 0.000149404 8 608 -97%
1957 595 0.000141594 10 585 -97%
1958 501 0.000121193 7 494 -97%
1959 477 0.000114719 8 469 -97%
1960 479 0.000115316 6 473 -97%
1961 435 0.000105014 7 428 -97%
1962 430 0.000106558 9 421 -96%
1963 441 0.000111414 441 -100%
1964 399 0.000102634 6 393 -97%
1965 360 0.000099298 6 354 -97%
1966 305 0.000087753 305 -100%
1967 298 0.000087779 6 292 -96%
1968 302 0.000089391 5 297 -97%
1969 259 0.000074525 259 -100%
1970 288 0.000079856 288 -100%
1971 258 0.000075167 258 -100%
1972 230 0.000073179 230 -100%
1973 203 0.000067288 203 -100%
1974 220 0.000072368 220 -100%
1975 200 0.000066238 200 -100%
1976 207 0.00006822 207 -100%
1977 202 0.000063592 202 -100%
1978 164 0.000051672 164 -100%
1979 189 0.000056808 189 -100%
1980 207 0.000060096 207 -100%
1981 164 0.000047407 164 -100%
1982 159 0.000045325 159 -100%
1983 140 0.000040423 140 -100%
1984 170 0.000048728 170 -100%
1985 157 0.000043989 157 -100%
1986 141 0.000039639 141 -100%
1987 156 0.000043266 6 150 -92%
1988 148 0.000040054 148 -100%
1989 160 0.000041618 160 -100%
1990 144 0.000036433 144 -100%
1991 132 0.000033887 132 -100%
1992 126 0.000032802 126 -100%
1993 125 0.000033154 125 -100%
1994 102 0.000027437 102 -100%
1995 99 0.000027033 99 -100%
1996 72 0.000019741 72 -100%
1997 89 0.000024547 89 -100%
1998 54 0.000014681 54 -100%
1999 76 0.000020575 76 -100%
2000 54 0.000014286 54 -100%
2001 60 0.000016028 60 -100%
2002 59 0.000015783 59 -100%
2003 62 0.000016306 62 -100%
2004 47 0.000012301 47 -100%
2005 48 0.000012484 48 -100%
2006 63 0.000015924 63 -100%
2007 65 0.000016259 65 -100%
2008 58 0.000014756 58 -100%
2009 54 0.000014135 54 -100%
2010 60 0.000016235 60 -100%
2011 39 0.000010662 39 -100%
2012 48 0.000013124 48 -100%
2013 49 0.000013441 10 39 -59%
2014 48 0.000012951 48 -100%
2015 56 0.000015131 6 50 -79%
2016 69 0.000018808 14 55 -59%
2017 60 0.000016778 14 46 -53%
2018 61 0.00001735 16 45 -48%
2019 50 0.000014405 9 41 -64%
2020 48 0.000014369 12 36 -50%
2021 45 0.000013282 10 35 -56%
2022 36 0.000010641 9 27 -50%
2023 30 0.00000906 30 -100%
2024 39 0.000011717 13 26 -33%

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