How popular is “Sandy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sandy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sandy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sandy” 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	18	0.000089337		18	-100%
1881	14	0.000072656		14	-100%
1882	19	0.000085766		19	-100%
1883	23	0.000106017		23	-100%
1884	11	0.000045182		11	-100%
1885	19	0.000078886		19	-100%
1886	27	0.000105751		27	-100%
1887	19	0.000076801		19	-100%
1888	22	0.000073462		22	-100%
1889	19	0.000065756		19	-100%
1890	13	0.000043132		13	-100%
1891	19	0.000066278		19	-100%
1892	25	0.000074767		25	-100%
1893	10	0.000030748		10	-100%
1894	19	0.000056098		19	-100%
1895	20	0.000056977		20	-100%
1896	13	0.000036365		13	-100%
1897	9	0.00002594		9	-100%
1898	17	0.000044566		17	-100%
1899	16	0.000047165		16	-100%
1900	22	0.000048861		22	-100%
1901	13	0.000037593		13	-100%
1902	19	0.00004913		19	-100%
1903	14	0.000036726		14	-100%
1904	20	0.000049568		20	-100%
1905	33	0.000077845		33	-100%
1906	18	0.000042012		18	-100%
1907	27	0.000058016		27	-100%
1908	28	0.000057301		28	-100%
1909	31	0.000060639		31	-100%
1910	35	0.000059251		35	-100%
1911	24	0.000037251		24	-100%
1912	44	0.000044532		44	-100%
1913	44	0.000038695		44	-100%
1914	61	0.000043069	7	54	-77%
1915	63	0.000034381	7	56	-78%
1916	49	0.000025331		49	-100%
1917	74	0.000036876	5	69	-86%
1918	69	0.000031781	6	63	-83%
1919	82	0.000038858	8	74	-80%
1920	69	0.000030495	7	62	-80%
1921	76	0.000032555		76	-100%
1922	78	0.000034074	10	68	-74%
1923	84	0.000036482	12	72	-71%
1924	84	0.00003527	10	74	-76%
1925	88	0.000037715	16	72	-64%
1926	94	0.000040942	20	74	-57%
1927	102	0.000043978	17	85	-67%
1928	82	0.000036268	11	71	-73%
1929	89	0.000040599	20	69	-55%
1930	89	0.000040031	14	75	-69%
1931	80	0.000038016	8	72	-80%
1932	110	0.000052101	29	81	-47%
1933	106	0.000053015	31	75	-42%
1934	116	0.000055855	37	79	-36%
1935	134	0.000064118	66	68	-1%
1936	136	0.000065461	62	74	-9%
1937	187	0.000087766	108	79	16%
1938	250	0.000112991	181	69	45%
1939	329	0.000149312	260	69	58%
1940	472	0.000204978	382	90	62%
1941	604	0.000247904	506	98	68%
1942	790	0.000289185	677	113	71%
1943	927	0.000328425	784	143	69%
1944	939	0.00034906	820	119	75%
1945	993	0.000374306	866	127	74%
1946	1355	0.000424059	1179	176	74%
1947	1571	0.000436108	1354	217	72%
1948	1090	0.000315712	932	158	71%
1949	876	0.000251379	689	187	57%
1950	704	0.00020095	515	189	46%
1951	640	0.000173737	461	179	44%
1952	649	0.000170879	440	209	36%
1953	702	0.000182165	511	191	46%
1954	917	0.000230361	649	268	42%
1955	986	0.000245574	753	233	53%
1956	1372	0.000332764	1127	245	64%
1957	2108	0.000501649	1891	217	79%
1958	2787	0.000674181	2567	220	84%
1959	3493	0.000840069	3275	218	88%
1960	3821	0.000919877	3646	175	91%
1961	3671	0.000886222	3421	250	86%
1962	3288	0.000814795	3056	232	86%
1963	3026	0.000764489	2800	226	85%
1964	2541	0.000653616	2347	194	85%
1965	1916	0.000528486	1706	210	78%
1966	1889	0.000543495	1680	209	78%
1967	1600	0.000471296	1416	184	77%
1968	1545	0.000457315	1398	147	81%
1969	1380	0.000397085	1241	139	80%
1970	1371	0.000380145	1246	125	82%
1971	1202	0.000350197	1083	119	80%
1972	1165	0.000370666	1056	109	81%
1973	961	0.00031854	873	88	82%
1974	918	0.000301974	814	104	77%
1975	932	0.000308671	841	91	80%
1976	878	0.000289358	787	91	79%
1977	857	0.000269794	785	72	83%
1978	808	0.000254579	734	74	82%
1979	947	0.000284641	888	59	88%
1980	925	0.000268544	857	68	85%
1981	899	0.000259874	803	96	79%
1982	837	0.0002386	765	72	83%
1983	701	0.000202406	636	65	81%
1984	768	0.000220136	701	67	83%
1985	675	0.000189123	602	73	78%
1986	668	0.000187795	609	59	82%
1987	627	0.000173895	569	58	81%
1988	632	0.00017104	565	67	79%
1989	780	0.00020289	719	61	84%
1990	745	0.000188489	694	51	86%
1991	664	0.000170463	627	37	89%
1992	590	0.000153595	531	59	80%
1993	533	0.000141369	489	44	83%
1994	517	0.000139066	486	31	88%
1995	503	0.000137351	468	35	86%
1996	444	0.000121737	405	39	82%
1997	394	0.000108667	361	33	83%
1998	392	0.000106574	361	31	84%
1999	351	0.000095022	330	21	88%
2000	408	0.000107939	386	22	89%
2001	340	0.000090827	322	18	89%
2002	335	0.000089613	317	18	89%
2003	316	0.000083107	296	20	87%
2004	333	0.000087152	317	16	90%
2005	316	0.000082188	292	24	85%
2006	264	0.000066731	250	14	89%
2007	272	0.000068039	256	16	88%
2008	241	0.000061313	228	13	89%
2009	199	0.000052092	189	10	90%
2010	190	0.000051411	177	13	86%
2011	125	0.000034174	110	15	76%
2012	152	0.00004156	138	14	82%
2013	141	0.000038676	134	7	90%
2014	142	0.000038312	130	12	83%
2015	116	0.000031344	107	9	84%
2016	93	0.00002535	86	7	85%
2017	108	0.0000302	98	10	81%
2018	92	0.000026167	78	14	70%
2019	87	0.000025065	78	9	79%
2020	75	0.000022451	66	9	76%
2021	65	0.000019186	58	7	78%
2022	72	0.000021282	62	10	72%
2023	81	0.000024462	68	13	68%
2024	58	0.000017425	48	10	66%

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