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How popular is “Russell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Russell” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Russell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Russell” 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 62 0.000307717 62 -100%
1881 65 0.000337333 65 -100%
1882 73 0.000329522 73 -100%
1883 67 0.000308833 67 -100%
1884 107 0.000439495 107 -100%
1885 94 0.000390278 94 -100%
1886 115 0.000450422 115 -100%
1887 96 0.000388048 96 -100%
1888 146 0.000487521 146 -100%
1889 198 0.000685249 198 -100%
1890 182 0.000603847 182 -100%
1891 186 0.000648823 186 -100%
1892 274 0.000819442 5 269 -96%
1893 246 0.000756404 246 -100%
1894 278 0.00082081 278 -100%
1895 300 0.000854652 300 -100%
1896 327 0.000914726 327 -100%
1897 295 0.000850249 295 -100%
1898 368 0.000964727 9 359 -95%
1899 343 0.001011102 5 338 -97%
1900 427 0.000948345 427 -100%
1901 402 0.001162481 7 395 -97%
1902 422 0.001091192 422 -100%
1903 390 0.001023085 390 -100%
1904 478 0.001184679 5 473 -98%
1905 438 0.001033209 6 432 -97%
1906 465 0.001085305 6 459 -97%
1907 503 0.001080814 503 -100%
1908 528 0.00108053 5 523 -98%
1909 535 0.001046508 7 528 -97%
1910 615 0.001041118 615 -100%
1911 779 0.001209105 9 770 -98%
1912 1462 0.001479664 13 1449 -98%
1913 1958 0.001721909 12 1946 -99%
1914 2580 0.001821591 12 2568 -99%
1915 3260 0.001779062 10 3250 -99%
1916 3353 0.001733339 23 3330 -99%
1917 3460 0.001724181 24 3436 -99%
1918 3851 0.001773746 18 3833 -99%
1919 3666 0.001737239 21 3645 -99%
1920 3934 0.001738675 33 3901 -98%
1921 3975 0.001702716 29 3946 -99%
1922 3993 0.001744311 28 3965 -99%
1923 3828 0.001662554 23 3805 -99%
1924 3969 0.00166652 23 3946 -99%
1925 3822 0.001638022 18 3804 -99%
1926 3821 0.001664268 28 3793 -99%
1927 3563 0.001536201 23 3540 -99%
1928 3357 0.001484782 32 3325 -98%
1929 3210 0.001464308 27 3183 -98%
1930 3128 0.001406925 27 3101 -98%
1931 2965 0.001408961 22 2943 -99%
1932 3037 0.001438456 17 3020 -99%
1933 2711 0.001355875 14 2697 -99%
1934 2757 0.001327513 20 2737 -99%
1935 2846 0.001361788 14 2832 -99%
1936 2847 0.001370346 15 2832 -99%
1937 2910 0.001365768 15 2895 -99%
1938 2961 0.00133826 11 2950 -99%
1939 2843 0.001290254 10 2833 -99%
1940 3025 0.001313684 13 3012 -99%
1941 3048 0.001251013 16 3032 -99%
1942 3690 0.001350749 15 3675 -99%
1943 3768 0.001334959 16 3752 -99%
1944 3942 0.001465384 11 3931 -99%
1945 3820 0.001439928 14 3806 -99%
1946 4759 0.001489372 18 4741 -99%
1947 5290 0.001468497 20 5270 -99%
1948 5131 0.001486162 22 5109 -99%
1949 5022 0.001441126 15 5007 -99%
1950 4963 0.001416641 18 4945 -99%
1951 5188 0.001408352 13 5175 -99%
1952 5368 0.001413374 19 5349 -99%
1953 5390 0.001398676 16 5374 -99%
1954 5777 0.001451249 16 5761 -99%
1955 6553 0.001632097 15 6538 -100%
1956 7420 0.001799644 18 7402 -100%
1957 7247 0.001724596 23 7224 -99%
1958 7174 0.001735406 21 7153 -99%
1959 7504 0.001804717 24 7480 -99%
1960 7505 0.001806773 23 7482 -99%
1961 7366 0.001778239 31 7335 -99%
1962 7068 0.001751511 24 7044 -99%
1963 6723 0.001698499 24 6699 -99%
1964 6266 0.001611789 25 6241 -99%
1965 5662 0.001561738 17 5645 -99%
1966 4881 0.00140434 23 4858 -99%
1967 4911 0.001446583 21 4890 -99%
1968 5123 0.001516392 26 5097 -99%
1969 5182 0.001491084 26 5156 -99%
1970 5132 0.001422981 26 5106 -99%
1971 4569 0.001331156 26 4543 -99%
1972 3807 0.001211265 24 3783 -99%
1973 3421 0.00113395 24 3397 -99%
1974 3180 0.001046053 12 3168 -99%
1975 3254 0.0010777 22 3232 -99%
1976 3011 0.000992321 12 2999 -99%
1977 3151 0.000991974 27 3124 -98%
1978 3012 0.000948999 28 2984 -98%
1979 3157 0.000948903 25 3132 -98%
1980 3299 0.000957757 30 3269 -98%
1981 3079 0.000890045 31 3048 -98%
1982 3064 0.000873442 31 3033 -98%
1983 2777 0.000801827 33 2744 -98%
1984 2709 0.000776495 24 2685 -98%
1985 2580 0.000722869 7 2573 -99%
1986 2427 0.000682302 20 2407 -98%
1987 2398 0.000665074 19 2379 -98%
1988 2308 0.000624621 10 2298 -99%
1989 2227 0.000579277 10 2217 -99%
1990 2213 0.000559902 2213 -100%
1991 1847 0.000474165 14 1833 -98%
1992 1711 0.000445425 1711 -100%
1993 1528 0.000405275 11 1517 -99%
1994 1269 0.000341344 1269 -100%
1995 1205 0.000329041 1205 -100%
1996 1097 0.000300779 11 1086 -98%
1997 1100 0.000303386 1100 -100%
1998 952 0.000258822 952 -100%
1999 855 0.000231465 855 -100%
2000 894 0.000236514 894 -100%
2001 925 0.000247102 925 -100%
2002 838 0.000224167 838 -100%
2003 811 0.000213291 811 -100%
2004 778 0.000203616 10 768 -97%
2005 730 0.000189865 730 -100%
2006 740 0.000187049 740 -100%
2007 712 0.000178103 712 -100%
2008 726 0.000184702 726 -100%
2009 646 0.000169102 646 -100%
2010 698 0.000188866 698 -100%
2011 707 0.000193286 707 -100%
2012 657 0.000179637 657 -100%
2013 672 0.000184328 672 -100%
2014 757 0.000204243 757 -100%
2015 769 0.000207787 769 -100%
2016 785 0.000213972 785 -100%
2017 789 0.000220626 789 -100%
2018 769 0.000218721 769 -100%
2019 804 0.000231638 804 -100%
2020 842 0.000252052 842 -100%
2021 919 0.000271256 919 -100%
2022 866 0.000255976 866 -100%
2023 814 0.000245833 814 -100%
2024 892 0.000267989 892 -100%

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