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How popular is “Sable” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sable” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sable” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sable” 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
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 12 0.000003362 12 100%
1986 181 0.000050884 181 100%
1987 116 0.000032172 116 100%
1988 88 0.000023816 88 100%
1989 156 0.000040578 156 100%
1990 67 0.000016951 67 100%
1991 74 0.000018997 74 100%
1992 53 0.000013798 53 100%
1993 39 0.000010344 39 100%
1994 38 0.000010222 38 100%
1995 35 0.000009557 35 100%
1996 29 0.000007951 29 100%
1997 35 0.000009653 35 100%
1998 65 0.000017672 65 100%
1999 68 0.000018409 68 100%
2000 43 0.000011376 43 100%
2001 26 0.000006946 26 100%
2002 34 0.000009095 34 100%
2003 17 0.000004471 17 100%
2004 21 0.000005496 21 100%
2005 18 0.000004682 18 100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 100%
2007 18 0.000004503 18 100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2012 19 0.000005195 19 100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 100%
2015 16 0.000004323 16 100%
2016 21 0.000005724 21 100%
2017 21 0.000005872 21 100%
2018 22 0.000006257 22 100%
2019 28 0.000008067 28 100%
2020 23 0.000006885 23 100%
2021 30 0.000008855 30 100%
2022 28 0.000008276 28 100%
2023 30 0.00000906 25 5 67%
2024 32 0.000009614 27 5 69%

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