Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sonoma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sonoma” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sonoma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sonoma” 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
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 100%
2022 11 0.000003251 11 100%
2023 13 0.000003926 13 100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 100%

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