Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Rune” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rune” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rune” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rune” 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
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2002 17 0.000004548 17 -100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 -100%
2004 21 0.000005496 21 -100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 -100%
2006 17 0.000004297 17 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 -100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 -100%
2011 17 0.000004648 5 12 -41%
2012 18 0.000004922 18 -100%
2013 22 0.000006035 5 17 -55%
2014 25 0.000006745 5 20 -60%
2015 29 0.000007836 7 22 -52%
2016 19 0.000005179 19 -100%
2017 25 0.000006991 25 -100%
2018 45 0.000012799 8 37 -64%
2019 38 0.000010948 9 29 -53%
2020 49 0.000014668 15 34 -39%
2021 44 0.000012987 9 35 -59%
2022 82 0.000024238 17 65 -59%
2023 81 0.000024462 19 62 -53%
2024 101 0.000030344 19 82 -62%

Explore other names

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