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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Soul” in the USA?

Number of people named “Soul” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Soul” by birth year

This chart shows how “Soul” 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
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2002 12 0.00000321 7 5 17%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 -100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2014 21 0.000005666 9 12 -14%
2015 18 0.000004864 9 9 0%
2016 19 0.000005179 9 10 -5%
2017 17 0.000004754 10 7 18%
2018 30 0.000008533 12 18 -20%
2019 35 0.000010084 11 24 -37%
2020 54 0.000016165 24 30 -11%
2021 99 0.000029221 50 49 1%
2022 103 0.000030445 41 62 -20%
2023 94 0.000028389 49 45 4%
2024 108 0.000032447 47 61 -13%

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