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How popular is “Sparkle” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sparkle” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sparkle” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sparkle” 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
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1976 44 0.000014501 44 100%
1977 89 0.000028018 89 100%
1978 72 0.000022685 72 100%
1979 124 0.000037271 124 100%
1980 110 0.000031935 110 100%
1981 84 0.000024282 84 100%
1982 80 0.000022805 80 100%
1983 83 0.000023965 83 100%
1984 59 0.000016911 59 100%
1985 58 0.000016251 58 100%
1986 66 0.000018555 66 100%
1987 66 0.000018305 66 100%
1988 52 0.000014073 52 100%
1989 53 0.000013786 53 100%
1990 47 0.000011891 47 100%
1991 45 0.000011552 45 100%
1992 42 0.000010934 42 100%
1993 36 0.000009548 36 100%
1994 24 0.000006456 24 100%
1995 24 0.000006554 24 100%
1996 21 0.000005758 21 100%
1997 33 0.000009102 33 100%
1998 24 0.000006525 24 100%
1999 29 0.000007851 29 100%
2000 23 0.000006085 23 100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 100%
2002 21 0.000005618 21 100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 100%
2004 18 0.000004711 18 100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 100%
2014 19 0.000005126 19 100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%

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