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How popular is “Secret” in the USA?

Number of people named “Secret” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Secret” by birth year

This chart shows how “Secret” 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
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 20 0.000005134 20 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 100%
1995 22 0.000006007 22 100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 100%
1997 19 0.00000524 19 100%
1998 28 0.000007612 28 100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 100%
2000 24 0.000006349 24 100%
2001 30 0.000008014 30 100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 100%
2005 29 0.000007543 29 100%
2006 35 0.000008847 35 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 23 0.000006223 23 100%
2011 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 100%
2013 18 0.000004937 18 100%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 100%
2020 20 0.000005987 20 100%
2021 20 0.000005903 20 100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 100%
2023 14 0.000004228 14 100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 100%

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