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How popular is “Scotty” in the USA?

Number of people named “Scotty” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Scotty” by birth year

This chart shows how “Scotty” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 -100%
1923 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 -100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 -100%
1927 9 0.00000388 9 -100%
1928 14 0.000006192 14 -100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 -100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 -100%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 -100%
1932 20 0.000009473 20 -100%
1933 25 0.000012503 25 -100%
1934 24 0.000011556 24 -100%
1935 33 0.00001579 33 -100%
1936 38 0.000018291 38 -100%
1937 42 0.000019712 5 37 -76%
1938 43 0.000019434 43 -100%
1939 45 0.000020423 45 -100%
1940 66 0.000028662 8 58 -76%
1941 85 0.000034887 5 80 -88%
1942 48 0.000017571 48 -100%
1943 50 0.000017714 50 -100%
1944 56 0.000020817 56 -100%
1945 65 0.000024501 5 60 -85%
1946 90 0.000028166 7 83 -84%
1947 88 0.000024429 88 -100%
1948 82 0.000023751 5 77 -88%
1949 95 0.000027261 5 90 -89%
1950 125 0.00003568 5 120 -92%
1951 130 0.00003529 8 122 -88%
1952 120 0.000031596 120 -100%
1953 140 0.000036329 140 -100%
1954 148 0.000037179 6 142 -92%
1955 176 0.000043835 11 165 -88%
1956 186 0.000045112 10 176 -89%
1957 185 0.000044025 5 180 -95%
1958 246 0.000059508 8 238 -93%
1959 235 0.000056518 7 228 -94%
1960 289 0.000069575 5 284 -97%
1961 310 0.000074838 5 305 -97%
1962 387 0.000095902 7 380 -96%
1963 372 0.000093982 372 -100%
1964 419 0.000107778 419 -100%
1965 433 0.000119433 433 -100%
1966 532 0.000153065 7 525 -97%
1967 577 0.000169961 5 572 -98%
1968 593 0.000175526 8 585 -97%
1969 613 0.000176386 6 607 -98%
1970 581 0.000161097 7 574 -98%
1971 1133 0.000330094 15 1118 -97%
1972 763 0.000242762 6 757 -98%
1973 701 0.000232359 7 694 -98%
1974 605 0.000199013 605 -100%
1975 575 0.000190436 12 563 -96%
1976 452 0.000148964 5 447 -98%
1977 416 0.000130962 416 -100%
1978 386 0.000121618 386 -100%
1979 521 0.000156598 6 515 -98%
1980 453 0.000131514 7 446 -97%
1981 424 0.000122565 5 419 -98%
1982 415 0.000118302 415 -100%
1983 318 0.000091819 6 312 -96%
1984 275 0.000078825 275 -100%
1985 284 0.000079572 284 -100%
1986 260 0.000073094 260 -100%
1987 227 0.000062957 227 -100%
1988 212 0.000057374 212 -100%
1989 183 0.000047601 183 -100%
1990 197 0.000049842 197 -100%
1991 151 0.000038765 151 -100%
1992 184 0.000047901 184 -100%
1993 171 0.000045355 171 -100%
1994 123 0.000033085 123 -100%
1995 117 0.000031948 117 -100%
1996 92 0.000025225 92 -100%
1997 67 0.000018479 67 -100%
1998 86 0.000023381 86 -100%
1999 77 0.000020845 77 -100%
2000 76 0.000020106 76 -100%
2001 65 0.000017364 65 -100%
2002 65 0.000017388 65 -100%
2003 61 0.000016043 61 -100%
2004 57 0.000014918 57 -100%
2005 54 0.000014045 54 -100%
2006 58 0.000014661 58 -100%
2007 55 0.000013758 55 -100%
2008 62 0.000015773 62 -100%
2009 59 0.000015444 59 -100%
2010 39 0.000010553 39 -100%
2011 50 0.000013669 50 -100%
2012 52 0.000014218 52 -100%
2013 35 0.0000096 35 -100%
2014 34 0.000009173 34 -100%
2015 47 0.0000127 7 40 -70%
2016 45 0.000012266 6 39 -73%
2017 47 0.000013142 9 38 -62%
2018 38 0.000010808 5 33 -74%
2019 47 0.000013541 8 39 -66%
2020 43 0.000012872 7 36 -67%
2021 58 0.00001712 16 42 -45%
2022 62 0.000018326 14 48 -55%
2023 84 0.000025368 13 71 -69%
2024 120 0.000036052 27 93 -55%

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