Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Saw” in the USA?

Number of people named “Saw” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Saw” by birth year

This chart shows how “Saw” 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
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 -100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 -100%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 -100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 -100%
2013 20 0.000005486 20 -100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 -100%
2015 31 0.000008376 31 -100%
2016 26 0.000007087 26 -100%
2017 22 0.000006152 22 -100%
2018 17 0.000004835 17 -100%
2019 16 0.00000461 16 -100%
2020 13 0.000003892 13 -100%
2021 19 0.000005608 19 -100%
2022 17 0.000005025 17 -100%
2023 14 0.000004228 14 -100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 -100%

Explore other names

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