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How popular is “Rory” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rory” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rory” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rory” 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
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 16 0.000005857 16 -100%
1943 14 0.00000496 14 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 -100%
1945 20 0.000007539 20 -100%
1946 36 0.000011267 36 -100%
1947 114 0.000031646 41 73 -28%
1948 165 0.000047791 43 122 -48%
1949 195 0.000055958 45 150 -54%
1950 204 0.00005823 41 163 -60%
1951 166 0.000045063 32 134 -61%
1952 175 0.000046077 12 163 -86%
1953 236 0.000061241 22 214 -81%
1954 310 0.000077876 13 297 -92%
1955 392 0.000097632 17 375 -91%
1956 545 0.000132184 34 511 -88%
1957 495 0.000117797 19 476 -92%
1958 502 0.000121435 16 486 -94%
1959 820 0.000197211 17 803 -96%
1960 648 0.000156001 11 637 -97%
1961 520 0.000125534 14 506 -95%
1962 522 0.000129356 14 508 -95%
1963 395 0.000099793 9 386 -95%
1964 375 0.00009646 9 366 -95%
1965 358 0.000098746 5 353 -97%
1966 255 0.000073367 255 -100%
1967 202 0.000059501 202 -100%
1968 189 0.000055943 18 171 -81%
1969 456 0.000131211 105 351 -54%
1970 332 0.000092056 51 281 -69%
1971 240 0.000069923 36 204 -70%
1972 219 0.000069679 32 187 -71%
1973 155 0.000051377 24 131 -69%
1974 194 0.000063816 27 167 -72%
1975 181 0.000059946 21 160 -77%
1976 274 0.000090301 33 241 -76%
1977 588 0.00018511 51 537 -83%
1978 458 0.000144303 39 419 -83%
1979 370 0.000111211 28 342 -85%
1980 383 0.000111192 28 355 -85%
1981 452 0.000130659 26 426 -88%
1982 777 0.000221496 42 735 -89%
1983 575 0.000166025 40 535 -86%
1984 587 0.000168255 38 549 -87%
1985 541 0.000151578 39 502 -86%
1986 476 0.000133818 32 444 -87%
1987 417 0.000115653 27 390 -87%
1988 440 0.000119078 34 406 -85%
1989 434 0.00011289 39 395 -82%
1990 405 0.000102467 31 374 -85%
1991 364 0.000093447 31 333 -83%
1992 302 0.00007862 29 273 -81%
1993 252 0.000066839 24 228 -81%
1994 258 0.000069399 35 223 -73%
1995 234 0.000063897 30 204 -74%
1996 282 0.00007732 40 242 -72%
1997 285 0.000078604 45 240 -68%
1998 355 0.000096514 53 302 -70%
1999 346 0.000093669 59 287 -66%
2000 375 0.000099209 85 290 -55%
2001 378 0.000100978 142 236 -25%
2002 445 0.000119038 187 258 -16%
2003 550 0.000144649 234 316 -15%
2004 465 0.000121698 201 264 -14%
2005 481 0.000125103 198 283 -18%
2006 477 0.000120571 231 246 -3%
2007 505 0.000126323 245 260 -3%
2008 556 0.000141452 275 281 -1%
2009 590 0.000154443 287 303 -3%
2010 549 0.000148549 245 304 -11%
2011 701 0.000191646 288 413 -18%
2012 812 0.000222018 248 564 -39%
2013 895 0.000245497 285 610 -36%
2014 1078 0.00029085 330 748 -39%
2015 1271 0.000343429 418 853 -34%
2016 1298 0.000353804 470 828 -28%
2017 1396 0.000390359 534 862 -23%
2018 1414 0.000402173 530 884 -25%
2019 1600 0.000460971 676 924 -16%
2020 1671 0.000500213 675 996 -19%
2021 1926 0.000568486 791 1135 -18%
2022 2187 0.000646442 959 1228 -12%
2023 2452 0.000740518 1006 1446 -18%
2024 2696 0.000809974 1102 1594 -18%

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