How popular is “Santa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Santa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Santa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Santa” 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
1896	6	0.000016784	6		100%
1899	6	0.000017687	6		100%
1900	5	0.000011105	5		100%
1901	6	0.00001735	6		100%
1904	16	0.000039655	16		100%
1905	8	0.000018871	8		100%
1906	5	0.00001167	5		100%
1907	15	0.000032231	15		100%
1908	20	0.000040929	20		100%
1909	13	0.000025429	13		100%
1910	18	0.000030472	18		100%
1911	26	0.000040355	26		100%
1912	26	0.000026314	26		100%
1913	45	0.000039574	40	5	78%
1914	59	0.000041657	59		100%
1915	90	0.000049115	85	5	89%
1916	88	0.000045492	88		100%
1917	74	0.000036876	74		100%
1918	72	0.000033163	66	6	83%
1919	74	0.000035067	74		100%
1920	71	0.000031379	71		100%
1921	74	0.000031698	74		100%
1922	70	0.000030579	70		100%
1923	89	0.000038654	89		100%
1924	88	0.00003695	88		100%
1925	82	0.000035143	82		100%
1926	79	0.000034409	70	9	77%
1927	71	0.000030612	71		100%
1928	66	0.000029191	66		100%
1929	54	0.000024633	54		100%
1930	68	0.000030585	68		100%
1931	54	0.000025661	54		100%
1932	36	0.000017051	36		100%
1933	48	0.000024007	48		100%
1934	48	0.000023112	48		100%
1935	32	0.000015312	32		100%
1936	48	0.000023104	48		100%
1937	41	0.000019243	41		100%
1938	41	0.00001853	41		100%
1939	37	0.000016792	37		100%
1940	31	0.000013463	31		100%
1941	30	0.000012313	30		100%
1942	47	0.000017205	47		100%
1943	32	0.000011337	32		100%
1944	27	0.000010037	27		100%
1945	44	0.000016586	44		100%
1946	40	0.000012518	35	5	75%
1947	44	0.000012214	44		100%
1948	49	0.000014193	49		100%
1949	42	0.000012052	42		100%
1950	55	0.000015699	55		100%
1951	48	0.00001303	48		100%
1952	44	0.000011585	44		100%
1953	39	0.00001012	39		100%
1954	62	0.000015575	62		100%
1955	50	0.000012453	50		100%
1956	44	0.000010672	44		100%
1957	56	0.000013327	56		100%
1958	47	0.000011369	47		100%
1959	37	0.000008899	32	5	73%
1960	52	0.000012519	52		100%
1961	60	0.000014485	60		100%
1962	45	0.000011151	45		100%
1963	33	0.000008337	33		100%
1964	44	0.000011318	44		100%
1965	46	0.000012688	46		100%
1966	44	0.000012659	44		100%
1967	39	0.000011488	39		100%
1968	38	0.000011248	38		100%
1969	52	0.000014963	52		100%
1970	50	0.000013864	50		100%
1971	41	0.000011945	41		100%
1972	43	0.000013681	43		100%
1973	44	0.000014585	44		100%
1974	38	0.0000125	38		100%
1975	41	0.000013579	41		100%
1976	45	0.00001483	45		100%
1977	36	0.000011333	36		100%
1978	45	0.000014178	45		100%
1979	61	0.000018335	56	5	84%
1980	43	0.000012484	43		100%
1981	30	0.000008672	30		100%
1982	29	0.000008267	29		100%
1983	35	0.000010106	35		100%
1984	27	0.000007739	27		100%
1985	28	0.000007845	28		100%
1986	24	0.000006747	24		100%
1987	22	0.000006102	22		100%
1988	18	0.000004871	18		100%
1989	20	0.000005202	20		100%
1990	21	0.000005313	21		100%
1991	24	0.000006161	24		100%
1992	24	0.000006248	24		100%
1993	22	0.000005835	22		100%
1994	24	0.000006456	24		100%
1995	21	0.000005734	21		100%
1996	27	0.000007403	27		100%
1997	19	0.00000524	19		100%
1998	20	0.000005437	20		100%
1999	14	0.00000379	14		100%
2000	5	0.000001323	5		100%
2001	10	0.000002671	10		100%
2002	14	0.000003745	14		100%
2003	6	0.000001578	6		100%
2004	9	0.000002355	9		100%
2005	11	0.000002861	11		100%
2006	20	0.000005055	20		100%
2007	11	0.000002752	11		100%
2008	15	0.000003816	15		100%
2009	12	0.000003141	12		100%
2010	10	0.000002706	10		100%
2011	9	0.000002461	9		100%
2012	11	0.000003008	11		100%
2013	12	0.000003292	12		100%
2014	6	0.000001619	6		100%
2015	11	0.000002972	11		100%
2016	10	0.000002726	10		100%
2017	11	0.000003076	11		100%
2018	9	0.00000256	9		100%
2019	8	0.000002305	8		100%
2020	9	0.000002694	9		100%
2021	5	0.000001476	5		100%
2022	11	0.000003251	11		100%
2023	12	0.000003624	12		100%
2024	24	0.00000721	24		100%

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