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How popular is “Rosemary” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rosemary” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rosemary” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rosemary” 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
1882 9 0.000040626 9 100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 100%
1886 11 0.000043084 11 100%
1887 11 0.000044464 11 100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 100%
1889 14 0.000048452 14 100%
1890 16 0.000053085 16 100%
1891 11 0.000038371 11 100%
1892 16 0.000047851 16 100%
1893 23 0.000070721 23 100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 100%
1895 23 0.000065523 23 100%
1896 18 0.000050352 18 100%
1897 29 0.000083584 29 100%
1898 29 0.000076025 29 100%
1899 23 0.0000678 23 100%
1900 40 0.000088838 40 100%
1901 29 0.000083861 29 100%
1902 37 0.000095673 37 100%
1903 48 0.000125918 48 100%
1904 54 0.000133834 54 100%
1905 64 0.000150971 64 100%
1906 61 0.000142373 61 100%
1907 87 0.00018694 87 100%
1908 91 0.000186228 91 100%
1909 123 0.000240599 123 100%
1910 141 0.000238695 141 100%
1911 160 0.00024834 160 100%
1912 298 0.000301601 298 100%
1913 388 0.000341216 388 100%
1914 563 0.000397502 563 100%
1915 820 0.000447494 820 100%
1916 996 0.000514884 996 100%
1917 1124 0.00056011 1124 100%
1918 1259 0.000579887 1259 100%
1919 1330 0.000630259 1330 100%
1920 1713 0.000757079 1713 100%
1921 2034 0.000871277 2034 100%
1922 2170 0.000947948 2170 100%
1923 2432 0.001056252 2427 5 100%
1924 2739 0.001150062 2734 5 100%
1925 2760 0.001182873 2755 5 100%
1926 2906 0.001265732 2900 6 100%
1927 3165 0.001364602 3153 12 99%
1928 2980 0.001318037 2972 8 99%
1929 3121 0.001423709 3107 14 99%
1930 3151 0.00141727 3151 100%
1931 2736 0.001300141 2722 14 99%
1932 2493 0.001180794 2483 10 99%
1933 2235 0.001117809 2227 8 99%
1934 2140 0.001030423 2132 8 99%
1935 2401 0.001148859 2394 7 99%
1936 2156 0.001037747 2148 8 99%
1937 2318 0.001087921 2307 11 99%
1938 2692 0.001216682 2681 11 99%
1939 2619 0.001188595 2612 7 99%
1940 2884 0.001252451 2874 10 99%
1941 2686 0.001102435 2677 9 99%
1942 3015 0.001103661 3004 11 99%
1943 2979 0.001055425 2967 12 99%
1944 2756 0.001024505 2744 12 99%
1945 3505 0.001321191 3500 5 100%
1946 4494 0.001406438 4486 8 100%
1947 4542 0.001260853 4542 100%
1948 3880 0.001123817 3869 11 99%
1949 3640 0.001044543 3633 7 100%
1950 3462 0.000988195 3455 7 100%
1951 3353 0.000910216 3346 7 100%
1952 2786 0.000733543 2786 100%
1953 2432 0.000631091 2432 100%
1954 2200 0.000552666 2191 9 99%
1955 2020 0.000503103 2015 5 100%
1956 2073 0.000502785 2066 7 99%
1957 2282 0.000543056 2275 7 99%
1958 2223 0.000537748 2223 100%
1959 2236 0.00053776 2230 6 99%
1960 2192 0.000527708 2192 100%
1961 2133 0.000514931 2133 100%
1962 1948 0.000482731 1939 9 99%
1963 1734 0.000438078 1729 5 99%
1964 1636 0.000420825 1629 7 99%
1965 1284 0.000354163 1276 8 99%
1966 1122 0.000322817 1122 100%
1967 920 0.000270995 914 6 99%
1968 882 0.000261069 876 6 99%
1969 801 0.000230482 794 7 98%
1970 797 0.000220989 797 100%
1971 749 0.000218218 743 6 98%
1972 617 0.00019631 617 100%
1973 609 0.000201864 609 100%
1974 624 0.000205263 624 100%
1975 534 0.000176857 534 100%
1976 497 0.000163794 497 100%
1977 466 0.000146703 460 6 97%
1978 453 0.000142728 453 100%
1979 489 0.000146979 489 100%
1980 576 0.000167223 576 100%
1981 573 0.000165637 565 8 97%
1982 532 0.000151655 532 100%
1983 494 0.000142637 489 5 98%
1984 489 0.000140165 489 100%
1985 512 0.000143453 512 100%
1986 473 0.000132974 473 100%
1987 455 0.000126192 455 100%
1988 431 0.000116643 431 100%
1989 474 0.000123295 466 8 97%
1990 477 0.000120684 472 5 98%
1991 429 0.000110134 429 100%
1992 420 0.000109339 420 100%
1993 395 0.000104767 395 100%
1994 402 0.000108133 402 100%
1995 403 0.000110044 403 100%
1996 421 0.000115431 421 100%
1997 339 0.000093498 339 100%
1998 395 0.000107389 395 100%
1999 375 0.00010152 375 100%
2000 397 0.000105029 397 100%
2001 401 0.000107122 401 100%
2002 403 0.000107803 403 100%
2003 403 0.000105988 403 100%
2004 376 0.000098406 376 100%
2005 362 0.000094152 362 100%
2006 410 0.000103635 410 100%
2007 406 0.000101559 406 100%
2008 398 0.000101255 398 100%
2009 404 0.000105754 404 100%
2010 395 0.00010688 395 100%
2011 439 0.000120018 439 100%
2012 479 0.000130969 479 100%
2013 563 0.00015443 563 100%
2014 536 0.000144616 536 100%
2015 607 0.000164014 607 100%
2016 740 0.000201706 740 100%
2017 698 0.00019518 698 100%
2018 699 0.000198811 699 100%
2019 770 0.000221842 770 100%
2020 698 0.000208946 698 100%
2021 846 0.000249709 846 100%
2022 871 0.000257454 871 100%
2023 995 0.000300496 995 100%
2024 1037 0.000311552 1037 100%

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