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How popular is “Rutger” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rutger” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rutger” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rutger” 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
1987 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1990 17 0.000004301 17 -100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 -100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 -100%
1993 23 0.0000061 23 -100%
1994 17 0.000004573 17 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 -100%
1996 12 0.00000329 12 -100%
1997 21 0.000005792 21 -100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 -100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 -100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 -100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 -100%

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