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How popular is “Rusty” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rusty” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rusty” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rusty” 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
1927 8 0.000003449 8 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1934 10 0.000004815 5 5 0%
1935 13 0.00000622 5 8 -23%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 13 0.0000059 6 7 -8%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 12 0.000004925 12 -100%
1942 17 0.000006223 17 -100%
1943 20 0.000007086 20 -100%
1944 43 0.000015985 43 -100%
1945 39 0.000014701 39 -100%
1946 79 0.000024724 79 -100%
1947 85 0.000023596 13 72 -69%
1948 79 0.000022882 6 73 -85%
1949 95 0.000027261 5 90 -89%
1950 98 0.000027973 98 -100%
1951 127 0.000034476 12 115 -81%
1952 131 0.000034492 10 121 -85%
1953 156 0.000040481 9 147 -88%
1954 215 0.00005401 7 208 -93%
1955 335 0.000083435 12 323 -93%
1956 448 0.000108658 14 434 -94%
1957 452 0.000107564 9 443 -96%
1958 522 0.000126273 13 509 -95%
1959 567 0.000136364 9 558 -97%
1960 521 0.000125427 7 514 -97%
1961 576 0.000139053 576 -100%
1962 522 0.000129356 6 516 -98%
1963 514 0.000129857 16 498 -94%
1964 428 0.000110093 9 419 -96%
1965 419 0.000115572 8 411 -96%
1966 347 0.000099837 16 331 -91%
1967 317 0.000093375 8 309 -95%
1968 341 0.000100935 13 328 -92%
1969 353 0.000101573 13 340 -93%
1970 407 0.000112851 23 384 -89%
1971 366 0.000106632 11 355 -94%
1972 344 0.00010945 20 324 -88%
1973 336 0.000111373 9 327 -95%
1974 326 0.000107237 14 312 -91%
1975 387 0.000128171 22 365 -89%
1976 404 0.000133144 27 377 -87%
1977 362 0.000113962 20 342 -89%
1978 360 0.000113426 19 341 -89%
1979 549 0.000165014 29 520 -89%
1980 524 0.000152126 19 505 -93%
1981 518 0.000149738 19 499 -93%
1982 426 0.000121438 7 419 -97%
1983 369 0.000106545 7 362 -96%
1984 349 0.000100036 11 338 -94%
1985 327 0.000091619 327 -100%
1986 348 0.000097833 12 336 -93%
1987 355 0.000098458 13 342 -93%
1988 351 0.000094992 9 342 -95%
1989 307 0.000079855 9 298 -94%
1990 281 0.000071095 8 273 -94%
1991 213 0.000054682 213 -100%
1992 165 0.000042955 165 -100%
1993 150 0.000039785 150 -100%
1994 162 0.000043576 5 157 -94%
1995 134 0.00003659 7 127 -90%
1996 123 0.000033725 6 117 -90%
1997 101 0.000027856 101 -100%
1998 86 0.000023381 86 -100%
1999 83 0.00002247 83 -100%
2000 73 0.000019313 73 -100%
2001 70 0.0000187 70 -100%
2002 67 0.000017923 67 -100%
2003 76 0.000019988 76 -100%
2004 65 0.000017012 65 -100%
2005 78 0.000020287 78 -100%
2006 41 0.000010364 41 -100%
2007 54 0.000013508 54 -100%
2008 43 0.00001094 43 -100%
2009 31 0.000008115 31 -100%
2010 45 0.000012176 45 -100%
2011 43 0.000011756 43 -100%
2012 38 0.00001039 38 -100%
2013 35 0.0000096 35 -100%
2014 43 0.000011602 43 -100%
2015 46 0.000012429 46 -100%
2016 40 0.000010903 40 -100%
2017 32 0.000008948 32 -100%
2018 28 0.000007964 28 -100%
2019 27 0.000007779 27 -100%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 -100%
2021 43 0.000012692 43 -100%
2022 34 0.00001005 34 -100%
2023 38 0.000011476 38 -100%
2024 43 0.000012919 8 35 -63%

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