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How popular is “Royce” in the USA?

Number of people named “Royce” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Royce” by birth year

This chart shows how “Royce” 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
1892 7 0.000020935 7 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1896 10 0.000027973 10 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1900 11 0.00002443 11 -100%
1903 10 0.000026233 10 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 -100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 -100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 -100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 -100%
1909 14 0.000027385 14 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 23 0.000035699 23 -100%
1912 37 0.000037447 37 -100%
1913 44 0.000038695 44 -100%
1914 77 0.000054365 77 -100%
1915 115 0.000062758 6 109 -90%
1916 129 0.000066687 6 123 -91%
1917 134 0.000066775 5 129 -93%
1918 146 0.000067247 13 133 -82%
1919 146 0.000069186 10 136 -86%
1920 187 0.000082647 14 173 -85%
1921 215 0.000092097 16 199 -85%
1922 195 0.000085184 9 186 -91%
1923 220 0.000095549 13 207 -88%
1924 250 0.000104971 17 233 -86%
1925 247 0.000105859 26 221 -79%
1926 266 0.000115858 23 243 -83%
1927 266 0.000114687 17 249 -87%
1928 289 0.000127823 29 260 -80%
1929 302 0.000137764 21 281 -86%
1930 304 0.000136734 15 289 -90%
1931 317 0.000150638 20 297 -87%
1932 323 0.000152987 18 305 -89%
1933 318 0.000159044 29 289 -82%
1934 315 0.000151674 19 296 -88%
1935 388 0.000185655 23 365 -88%
1936 341 0.000164133 24 317 -86%
1937 348 0.000163329 22 326 -87%
1938 367 0.00016587 35 332 -81%
1939 324 0.000147043 27 297 -83%
1940 367 0.000159379 32 335 -83%
1941 372 0.000152683 15 357 -92%
1942 368 0.000134709 45 323 -76%
1943 431 0.000152698 59 372 -73%
1944 401 0.000149066 54 347 -73%
1945 382 0.000143993 59 323 -69%
1946 401 0.000125497 47 354 -77%
1947 399 0.000110762 38 361 -81%
1948 391 0.000113251 35 356 -82%
1949 371 0.000106463 43 328 -77%
1950 368 0.000105042 43 325 -77%
1951 384 0.000104242 29 355 -85%
1952 401 0.000105582 39 362 -81%
1953 412 0.000106912 58 354 -72%
1954 400 0.000100485 36 364 -82%
1955 404 0.000100621 29 375 -86%
1956 415 0.000100654 58 357 -72%
1957 366 0.000087098 38 328 -79%
1958 368 0.00008902 33 335 -82%
1959 361 0.000086821 24 337 -87%
1960 334 0.000080408 34 300 -80%
1961 294 0.000070975 20 274 -86%
1962 310 0.000076821 19 291 -88%
1963 303 0.00007655 27 276 -82%
1964 282 0.000072538 30 252 -79%
1965 238 0.000065647 18 220 -85%
1966 210 0.00006042 17 193 -84%
1967 246 0.000072462 18 228 -85%
1968 205 0.000060679 19 186 -81%
1969 246 0.000070785 15 231 -88%
1970 227 0.000062942 14 213 -88%
1971 242 0.000070506 14 228 -88%
1972 198 0.000062997 12 186 -88%
1973 182 0.000060327 18 164 -80%
1974 169 0.000055592 9 160 -89%
1975 155 0.000051335 9 146 -88%
1976 180 0.000059322 8 172 -91%
1977 199 0.000062648 17 182 -83%
1978 180 0.000056713 9 171 -90%
1979 192 0.00005771 5 187 -95%
1980 189 0.00005487 11 178 -88%
1981 197 0.000056947 7 190 -93%
1982 224 0.000063855 8 216 -93%
1983 175 0.000050529 7 168 -92%
1984 201 0.000057614 6 195 -94%
1985 228 0.000063881 13 215 -89%
1986 190 0.000053415 7 183 -93%
1987 201 0.000055746 5 196 -95%
1988 216 0.000058457 14 202 -87%
1989 199 0.000051763 5 194 -95%
1990 219 0.000055408 8 211 -93%
1991 201 0.000051601 7 194 -93%
1992 202 0.000052587 5 197 -95%
1993 216 0.00005729 10 206 -91%
1994 196 0.000052721 196 -100%
1995 199 0.00005434 7 192 -93%
1996 186 0.000050998 7 179 -92%
1997 138 0.000038061 6 132 -91%
1998 155 0.00004214 155 -100%
1999 165 0.000044669 7 158 -92%
2000 179 0.000047356 179 -100%
2001 130 0.000034728 130 -100%
2002 133 0.000035578 133 -100%
2003 143 0.000037609 7 136 -90%
2004 148 0.000038734 148 -100%
2005 194 0.000050457 194 -100%
2006 222 0.000056115 6 216 -95%
2007 232 0.000058034 5 227 -96%
2008 233 0.000059278 8 225 -93%
2009 231 0.000060468 13 218 -89%
2010 321 0.000086857 15 306 -91%
2011 512 0.000139975 34 478 -87%
2012 587 0.000160498 44 543 -85%
2013 553 0.000151687 41 512 -85%
2014 647 0.000174564 43 604 -87%
2015 580 0.000156718 46 534 -84%
2016 723 0.000197073 62 661 -83%
2017 725 0.000202729 74 651 -80%
2018 766 0.000217868 74 692 -81%
2019 857 0.000246908 56 801 -87%
2020 797 0.000238582 67 730 -83%
2021 853 0.000251775 44 809 -90%
2022 811 0.000239718 34 777 -92%
2023 737 0.000222578 39 698 -89%
2024 702 0.000210906 33 669 -91%

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