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How popular is “Seth” in the USA?

Number of people named “Seth” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Seth” by birth year

This chart shows how “Seth” 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 25 0.000124079 25 -100%
1881 35 0.000181641 35 -100%
1882 31 0.000139934 31 -100%
1883 26 0.000119845 26 -100%
1884 21 0.000086256 21 -100%
1885 34 0.000141164 34 -100%
1886 23 0.000090084 23 -100%
1887 18 0.000072759 18 -100%
1888 30 0.000100176 30 -100%
1889 27 0.000093443 27 -100%
1890 15 0.000049768 15 -100%
1891 22 0.000076742 22 -100%
1892 29 0.000086729 29 -100%
1893 15 0.000046122 15 -100%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 -100%
1895 18 0.000051279 18 -100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 -100%
1897 19 0.000054762 19 -100%
1898 14 0.000036702 14 -100%
1899 11 0.000032426 11 -100%
1900 27 0.000059966 27 -100%
1901 15 0.000043376 15 -100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 -100%
1903 18 0.000047219 18 -100%
1904 14 0.000034698 14 -100%
1905 17 0.000040102 17 -100%
1906 17 0.000039678 17 -100%
1907 20 0.000042975 20 -100%
1908 20 0.000040929 20 -100%
1909 23 0.00004499 23 -100%
1910 15 0.000025393 15 -100%
1911 22 0.000034147 22 -100%
1912 41 0.000041495 41 -100%
1913 66 0.000058042 66 -100%
1914 67 0.000047305 67 -100%
1915 80 0.000043658 80 -100%
1916 84 0.000043424 84 -100%
1917 81 0.000040364 81 -100%
1918 100 0.000046059 100 -100%
1919 86 0.000040754 86 -100%
1920 109 0.000048174 109 -100%
1921 109 0.000046691 109 -100%
1922 95 0.0000415 95 -100%
1923 94 0.000040826 94 -100%
1924 83 0.00003485 83 -100%
1925 96 0.000041143 96 -100%
1926 82 0.000035716 82 -100%
1927 68 0.000029318 68 -100%
1928 74 0.00003273 74 -100%
1929 64 0.000029195 64 -100%
1930 55 0.000024738 55 -100%
1931 56 0.000026611 56 -100%
1932 66 0.00003126 66 -100%
1933 70 0.00003501 70 -100%
1934 71 0.000034187 71 -100%
1935 56 0.000026796 56 -100%
1936 52 0.000025029 52 -100%
1937 60 0.00002816 60 -100%
1938 65 0.000029378 65 -100%
1939 61 0.000027684 61 -100%
1940 57 0.000024754 57 -100%
1941 70 0.000028731 70 -100%
1942 82 0.000030017 82 -100%
1943 84 0.00002976 84 -100%
1944 63 0.000023419 63 -100%
1945 77 0.000029025 77 -100%
1946 91 0.000028479 91 -100%
1947 90 0.000024984 90 -100%
1948 100 0.000028964 100 -100%
1949 138 0.000039601 138 -100%
1950 132 0.000037678 132 -100%
1951 119 0.000032304 119 -100%
1952 129 0.000033965 129 -100%
1953 176 0.000045671 176 -100%
1954 215 0.00005401 215 -100%
1955 215 0.000053548 215 -100%
1956 245 0.000059422 245 -100%
1957 261 0.000062111 261 -100%
1958 316 0.000076441 316 -100%
1959 293 0.000070467 293 -100%
1960 340 0.000081852 340 -100%
1961 328 0.000079183 328 -100%
1962 314 0.000077812 314 -100%
1963 291 0.000073518 291 -100%
1964 348 0.000089515 348 -100%
1965 323 0.000089092 323 -100%
1966 343 0.000098686 343 -100%
1967 400 0.000117824 5 395 -98%
1968 525 0.000155398 525 -100%
1969 580 0.000166891 580 -100%
1970 795 0.000220434 795 -100%
1971 781 0.000227541 781 -100%
1972 874 0.000278079 7 867 -98%
1973 1137 0.000376879 1137 -100%
1974 1418 0.000466448 8 1410 -99%
1975 1878 0.000621979 12 1866 -99%
1976 2107 0.000694394 9 2098 -99%
1977 2304 0.000725328 16 2288 -99%
1978 2521 0.000794298 17 2504 -99%
1979 2856 0.000858431 16 2840 -99%
1980 3066 0.000890113 16 3050 -99%
1981 3170 0.000916351 33 3137 -98%
1982 2927 0.000834388 20 2907 -99%
1983 2873 0.000829546 16 2857 -99%
1984 2931 0.000840128 20 2911 -99%
1985 2840 0.000795717 19 2821 -99%
1986 3002 0.000843951 21 2981 -99%
1987 3352 0.000929661 14 3338 -99%
1988 3511 0.000950192 19 3492 -99%
1989 3646 0.000948381 11 3635 -99%
1990 3570 0.000903231 11 3559 -99%
1991 3828 0.000982732 16 3812 -99%
1992 3925 0.001021797 13 3912 -99%
1993 4074 0.001080557 14 4060 -99%
1994 4142 0.001114144 7 4135 -100%
1995 3919 0.001070135 8 3911 -100%
1996 3900 0.001069315 14 3886 -99%
1997 4051 0.001117286 8 4043 -100%
1998 4593 0.001248706 6 4587 -100%
1999 6310 0.001708237 6 6304 -100%
2000 6725 0.001779146 8 6717 -100%
2001 6232 0.001664801 9 6223 -100%
2002 5751 0.001538404 11 5740 -100%
2003 5264 0.001384418 8 5256 -100%
2004 5216 0.001365115 28 5188 -99%
2005 4720 0.001227618 7 4713 -100%
2006 4341 0.001097268 13 4328 -99%
2007 3777 0.000944797 9 3768 -100%
2008 3288 0.0008365 5 3283 -100%
2009 2945 0.000770907 2945 -100%
2010 2383 0.000644797 2383 -100%
2011 2099 0.000573843 5 2094 -100%
2012 1815 0.000496259 1815 -100%
2013 1601 0.000439151 5 1596 -99%
2014 1511 0.000407676 5 1506 -99%
2015 1350 0.000364775 1350 -100%
2016 1168 0.000318369 1168 -100%
2017 1066 0.000298082 1066 -100%
2018 860 0.000244603 860 -100%
2019 830 0.000239129 830 -100%
2020 687 0.000205653 687 -100%
2021 605 0.000178574 605 -100%
2022 649 0.000191834 649 -100%
2023 562 0.000169727 562 -100%
2024 530 0.000159231 530 -100%

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