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How popular is “Rudolph” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rudolph” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rudolph” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rudolph” 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 54 0.000268011 54 -100%
1881 62 0.000321764 62 -100%
1882 52 0.000234728 52 -100%
1883 61 0.000281176 61 -100%
1884 77 0.000316272 77 -100%
1885 70 0.000290633 70 -100%
1886 68 0.000266337 68 -100%
1887 71 0.000286994 71 -100%
1888 54 0.000180316 54 -100%
1889 83 0.000287251 83 -100%
1890 92 0.000305241 92 -100%
1891 68 0.000237204 68 -100%
1892 95 0.000284113 95 -100%
1893 101 0.000310556 101 -100%
1894 104 0.000307065 104 -100%
1895 106 0.000301977 106 -100%
1896 108 0.000302111 108 -100%
1897 109 0.00031416 109 -100%
1898 115 0.000301477 115 -100%
1899 100 0.000294782 100 -100%
1900 147 0.000326479 147 -100%
1901 87 0.000251582 87 -100%
1902 119 0.000307706 119 -100%
1903 120 0.000314795 120 -100%
1904 128 0.000317236 128 -100%
1905 132 0.000311378 132 -100%
1906 125 0.000291749 125 -100%
1907 135 0.000290079 135 -100%
1908 173 0.000354037 173 -100%
1909 173 0.000338404 173 -100%
1910 218 0.000369047 218 -100%
1911 217 0.000336811 217 -100%
1912 453 0.000458473 453 -100%
1913 565 0.000496874 565 -100%
1914 739 0.000521766 7 732 -98%
1915 980 0.00053481 6 974 -99%
1916 988 0.000510748 988 -100%
1917 952 0.000474399 6 946 -99%
1918 972 0.000447697 10 962 -98%
1919 802 0.000380051 802 -100%
1920 835 0.000369037 5 830 -99%
1921 967 0.000414221 7 960 -99%
1922 1145 0.000500184 1145 -100%
1923 1303 0.000565911 1303 -100%
1924 1238 0.000519816 9 1229 -99%
1925 1252 0.000536579 12 1240 -98%
1926 1643 0.000715622 7 1636 -99%
1927 1700 0.000732961 10 1690 -99%
1928 1325 0.00058604 17 1308 -97%
1929 1230 0.00056109 10 1220 -98%
1930 1234 0.000555034 15 1219 -98%
1931 1114 0.00052937 13 1101 -98%
1932 965 0.000457066 5 960 -99%
1933 853 0.000426618 6 847 -99%
1934 787 0.000378945 8 779 -98%
1935 745 0.000356476 745 -100%
1936 647 0.00031142 647 -100%
1937 630 0.000295682 630 -100%
1938 684 0.000309142 684 -100%
1939 587 0.000266401 587 -100%
1940 627 0.000272291 5 622 -98%
1941 600 0.000246262 600 -100%
1942 658 0.000240865 658 -100%
1943 664 0.000235248 664 -100%
1944 578 0.000214864 5 573 -98%
1945 579 0.000218251 5 574 -98%
1946 634 0.000198416 6 628 -98%
1947 696 0.000193209 696 -100%
1948 716 0.000207385 716 -100%
1949 822 0.000235883 822 -100%
1950 756 0.000215793 756 -100%
1951 836 0.000226943 5 831 -99%
1952 777 0.000204581 777 -100%
1953 745 0.000193324 745 -100%
1954 653 0.000164041 653 -100%
1955 660 0.00016438 7 653 -98%
1956 719 0.000174386 719 -100%
1957 572 0.000136121 572 -100%
1958 486 0.000117564 486 -100%
1959 458 0.000110149 458 -100%
1960 442 0.000106408 442 -100%
1961 414 0.000099944 414 -100%
1962 412 0.000102097 412 -100%
1963 412 0.000104088 412 -100%
1964 378 0.000097232 378 -100%
1965 328 0.000090472 328 -100%
1966 352 0.000101276 352 -100%
1967 276 0.000081298 276 -100%
1968 270 0.000079919 270 -100%
1969 251 0.000072224 251 -100%
1970 309 0.000085678 309 -100%
1971 275 0.00008012 275 -100%
1972 231 0.000073497 231 -100%
1973 220 0.000072923 5 215 -95%
1974 223 0.000073355 6 217 -95%
1975 188 0.000062264 188 -100%
1976 198 0.000065254 198 -100%
1977 181 0.000056981 181 -100%
1978 182 0.000057343 182 -100%
1979 190 0.000057109 190 -100%
1980 196 0.000056902 196 -100%
1981 170 0.000049142 170 -100%
1982 192 0.000054733 192 -100%
1983 175 0.000050529 175 -100%
1984 165 0.000047295 165 -100%
1985 157 0.000043989 157 -100%
1986 139 0.000039077 139 -100%
1987 156 0.000043266 156 -100%
1988 170 0.000046008 170 -100%
1989 183 0.000047601 183 -100%
1990 146 0.000036939 146 -100%
1991 131 0.000033631 131 -100%
1992 119 0.000030979 119 -100%
1993 108 0.000028645 108 -100%
1994 105 0.000028244 105 -100%
1995 105 0.000028672 105 -100%
1996 109 0.000029886 109 -100%
1997 76 0.000020961 76 -100%
1998 92 0.000025012 92 -100%
1999 63 0.000017055 63 -100%
2000 72 0.000019048 72 -100%
2001 82 0.000021905 82 -100%
2002 69 0.000018458 69 -100%
2003 65 0.000017095 65 -100%
2004 59 0.000015441 59 -100%
2005 58 0.000015085 58 -100%
2006 50 0.000012638 50 -100%
2007 45 0.000011257 45 -100%
2008 54 0.000013738 54 -100%
2009 35 0.000009162 35 -100%
2010 32 0.000008659 32 -100%
2011 44 0.000012029 44 -100%
2012 43 0.000011757 43 -100%
2013 36 0.000009875 36 -100%
2014 47 0.000012681 47 -100%
2015 41 0.000011078 41 -100%
2016 34 0.000009268 34 -100%
2017 40 0.000011185 40 -100%
2018 34 0.00000967 34 -100%
2019 41 0.000011812 41 -100%
2020 28 0.000008382 28 -100%
2021 31 0.00000915 31 -100%
2022 30 0.000008868 30 -100%
2023 22 0.000006644 22 -100%
2024 34 0.000010215 34 -100%

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