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How popular is “Somer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Somer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Somer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Somer” 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
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 26 0.000008611 26 100%
1976 48 0.000015819 48 100%
1977 105 0.000033055 105 100%
1978 152 0.000047891 152 100%
1979 114 0.000034265 114 100%
1980 134 0.000038903 134 100%
1981 129 0.00003729 129 100%
1982 87 0.000024801 87 100%
1983 73 0.000021078 73 100%
1984 66 0.000018918 66 100%
1985 59 0.000016531 59 100%
1986 53 0.0000149 53 100%
1987 63 0.000017473 63 100%
1988 46 0.000012449 46 100%
1989 37 0.000009624 37 100%
1990 40 0.00001012 40 100%
1991 28 0.000007188 28 100%
1992 43 0.000011194 43 100%
1993 52 0.000013792 52 100%
1994 62 0.000016677 62 100%
1995 70 0.000019114 70 100%
1996 73 0.000020015 73 100%
1997 65 0.000017927 65 100%
1998 68 0.000018487 68 100%
1999 55 0.00001489 55 100%
2000 41 0.000010847 41 100%
2001 56 0.00001496 56 100%
2002 44 0.00001177 44 100%
2003 40 0.00001052 40 100%
2004 36 0.000009422 36 100%
2005 21 0.000005462 21 100%
2006 25 0.000006319 25 100%
2007 30 0.000007504 30 100%
2008 31 0.000007887 31 100%
2009 14 0.000003665 14 100%
2010 38 0.000010282 38 100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 8 0.000002181 8 100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 100%

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