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How popular is “Rye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rye” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rye” 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
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 -100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 -100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 -100%
2005 20 0.000005202 20 -100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 -100%
2007 25 0.000006254 5 20 -60%
2008 24 0.000006106 10 14 -17%
2009 24 0.000006282 24 -100%
2010 37 0.000010012 9 28 -51%
2011 29 0.000007928 29 -100%
2012 48 0.000013124 5 43 -79%
2013 35 0.0000096 5 30 -71%
2014 40 0.000010792 9 31 -55%
2015 48 0.00001297 8 40 -67%
2016 54 0.000014719 8 46 -70%
2017 42 0.000011744 8 34 -62%
2018 79 0.000022469 15 64 -62%
2019 73 0.000021032 11 62 -70%
2020 86 0.000025744 10 76 -77%
2021 72 0.000021252 18 54 -50%
2022 80 0.000023647 19 61 -52%
2023 71 0.000021442 15 56 -58%
2024 57 0.000017125 57 -100%

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