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How popular is “Roy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Roy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Roy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Roy” 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
1880 440 0.002183796 440 -100%
1881 440 0.002283484 440 -100%
1882 521 0.002351794 521 -100%
1883 556 0.00256285 556 -100%
1884 680 0.002793055 680 -100%
1885 696 0.002889717 5 691 -99%
1886 772 0.003023704 5 767 -99%
1887 733 0.002962909 7 726 -98%
1888 865 0.002888398 9 856 -98%
1889 894 0.003094004 6 888 -99%
1890 952 0.003158583 11 941 -98%
1891 849 0.002961562 11 838 -97%
1892 1053 0.003149168 5 1048 -99%
1893 925 0.002844202 6 919 -99%
1894 1029 0.003038177 11 1018 -98%
1895 1038 0.002957097 10 1028 -98%
1896 1027 0.002872856 1027 -100%
1897 1008 0.002905259 9 999 -98%
1898 1059 0.002776212 10 1049 -98%
1899 919 0.002709045 7 912 -98%
1900 1221 0.002711779 6 1215 -99%
1901 925 0.002674864 8 917 -98%
1902 1012 0.002616792 10 1002 -98%
1903 975 0.002557712 975 -100%
1904 1135 0.002812992 12 1123 -98%
1905 1025 0.002417898 9 1016 -98%
1906 1033 0.002411011 9 1024 -98%
1907 1141 0.002451707 13 1128 -98%
1908 1104 0.00225929 7 1097 -99%
1909 1143 0.002235811 8 1135 -99%
1910 1276 0.002160109 9 1267 -99%
1911 1412 0.002191601 18 1394 -97%
1912 2609 0.002640523 18 2591 -99%
1913 3107 0.002732365 17 3090 -99%
1914 3873 0.002734505 21 3852 -99%
1915 5095 0.002780467 43 5052 -98%
1916 5364 0.002772928 37 5327 -99%
1917 5624 0.002802541 38 5586 -99%
1918 6255 0.002881014 44 6211 -99%
1919 6014 0.002849906 44 5970 -99%
1920 6401 0.002828992 46 6355 -99%
1921 6594 0.002824582 49 6545 -99%
1922 6519 0.002847774 61 6458 -98%
1923 6367 0.002765278 51 6316 -98%
1924 6603 0.002772494 46 6557 -99%
1925 6429 0.002755323 53 6376 -98%
1926 6277 0.002733998 53 6224 -98%
1927 6456 0.002783529 69 6387 -98%
1928 6278 0.002776724 49 6229 -98%
1929 5879 0.002681829 67 5812 -98%
1930 5973 0.002686562 56 5917 -98%
1931 5549 0.002636871 60 5489 -98%
1932 5274 0.002497998 36 5238 -99%
1933 4955 0.002478185 49 4906 -98%
1934 5145 0.00247735 41 5104 -98%
1935 4967 0.002376669 28 4939 -99%
1936 4848 0.002333486 31 4817 -99%
1937 4918 0.002308194 30 4888 -99%
1938 5065 0.002289189 23 5042 -99%
1939 5182 0.002351775 27 5155 -99%
1940 5601 0.002432378 37 5564 -99%
1941 5988 0.002457699 38 5950 -99%
1942 6356 0.002326656 45 6311 -99%
1943 6982 0.002473642 51 6931 -99%
1944 6570 0.002442308 36 6534 -99%
1945 6209 0.002340449 26 6183 -99%
1946 6961 0.002178507 37 6924 -99%
1947 7592 0.002107529 32 7560 -99%
1948 7094 0.002054732 28 7066 -99%
1949 6651 0.001908588 29 6622 -99%
1950 6486 0.001851367 32 6454 -99%
1951 6504 0.001765597 38 6466 -99%
1952 6556 0.001726169 32 6524 -99%
1953 6688 0.0017355 32 6656 -99%
1954 6547 0.001644682 34 6513 -99%
1955 6376 0.001588013 47 6329 -99%
1956 6155 0.001492832 22 6133 -99%
1957 6097 0.001450926 33 6064 -99%
1958 5555 0.001343766 30 5525 -99%
1959 5218 0.001254933 35 5183 -99%
1960 5284 0.001272084 31 5253 -99%
1961 4994 0.00120561 29 4965 -99%
1962 4506 0.001116626 29 4477 -99%
1963 4461 0.001127027 23 4438 -99%
1964 4181 0.001075469 31 4150 -99%
1965 3802 0.001048698 18 3784 -99%
1966 3546 0.001020239 23 3523 -99%
1967 3303 0.000972931 27 3276 -98%
1968 3207 0.000949262 30 3177 -98%
1969 3021 0.000869272 20 3001 -99%
1970 3056 0.000847356 15 3041 -99%
1971 2978 0.000867626 18 2960 -99%
1972 2492 0.000792875 16 2476 -99%
1973 2252 0.000746465 16 2236 -99%
1974 2205 0.000725329 18 2187 -98%
1975 2135 0.000707096 15 2120 -99%
1976 1885 0.000621231 14 1871 -99%
1977 1939 0.000610421 26 1913 -97%
1978 1812 0.000570912 17 1795 -98%
1979 1769 0.00053171 16 1753 -98%
1980 1802 0.000523152 23 1779 -97%
1981 1739 0.000502692 13 1726 -99%
1982 1628 0.000464087 11 1617 -99%
1983 1472 0.000425023 16 1456 -98%
1984 1401 0.000401576 18 1383 -97%
1985 1397 0.000391414 17 1380 -98%
1986 1293 0.000363501 10 1283 -98%
1987 1279 0.000354725 17 1262 -97%
1988 1175 0.000317994 11 1164 -98%
1989 1269 0.000330086 11 1258 -98%
1990 1227 0.000310438 1227 -100%
1991 1129 0.000289839 1129 -100%
1992 992 0.000258248 992 -100%
1993 897 0.000237913 897 -100%
1994 862 0.000231867 862 -100%
1995 732 0.000199882 732 -100%
1996 719 0.000197138 719 -100%
1997 749 0.000206578 749 -100%
1998 655 0.000178076 655 -100%
1999 638 0.000172719 638 -100%
2000 638 0.000168787 638 -100%
2001 572 0.000152803 572 -100%
2002 566 0.000151406 566 -100%
2003 570 0.000149909 570 -100%
2004 543 0.000142112 543 -100%
2005 530 0.000137847 530 -100%
2006 599 0.000151408 599 -100%
2007 535 0.000133828 535 -100%
2008 552 0.000140434 552 -100%
2009 473 0.000123816 473 -100%
2010 457 0.000123656 457 -100%
2011 443 0.000121111 443 -100%
2012 466 0.000127414 466 -100%
2013 508 0.000139343 508 -100%
2014 525 0.000141648 525 -100%
2015 541 0.00014618 7 534 -97%
2016 539 0.000146919 539 -100%
2017 529 0.000147923 529 -100%
2018 520 0.0001479 520 -100%
2019 494 0.000142325 494 -100%
2020 486 0.000145484 486 -100%
2021 519 0.00015319 519 -100%
2022 513 0.000151635 5 508 -98%
2023 526 0.000158855 526 -100%
2024 552 0.00016584 552 -100%

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