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How popular is “Spencer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Spencer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Spencer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Spencer” 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 35 0.000173711 35 -100%
1881 26 0.000134933 26 -100%
1882 33 0.000148962 33 -100%
1883 28 0.000129064 28 -100%
1884 32 0.000131438 32 -100%
1885 23 0.000095494 23 -100%
1886 29 0.000113585 29 -100%
1887 41 0.000165729 41 -100%
1888 38 0.000126889 38 -100%
1889 28 0.000096904 28 -100%
1890 30 0.000099535 30 -100%
1891 33 0.000115114 33 -100%
1892 33 0.000098692 33 -100%
1893 21 0.000064571 21 -100%
1894 27 0.000079719 27 -100%
1895 35 0.000099709 35 -100%
1896 28 0.000078325 28 -100%
1897 23 0.000066291 23 -100%
1898 40 0.000104862 40 -100%
1899 39 0.000114965 39 -100%
1900 44 0.000097722 44 -100%
1901 30 0.000086752 30 -100%
1902 32 0.000082744 32 -100%
1903 28 0.000073452 28 -100%
1904 44 0.00010905 44 -100%
1905 38 0.000089639 38 -100%
1906 29 0.000067686 29 -100%
1907 41 0.000088098 41 -100%
1908 61 0.000124834 61 -100%
1909 49 0.000095848 49 -100%
1910 54 0.000091415 54 -100%
1911 70 0.000108649 70 -100%
1912 105 0.000106269 105 -100%
1913 124 0.000109048 124 -100%
1914 124 0.000087549 124 -100%
1915 153 0.000083496 153 -100%
1916 169 0.000087365 169 -100%
1917 204 0.000101657 204 -100%
1918 210 0.000096725 210 -100%
1919 160 0.000075821 160 -100%
1920 229 0.000101209 229 -100%
1921 195 0.000083529 195 -100%
1922 203 0.000088679 6 197 -94%
1923 199 0.000086429 199 -100%
1924 188 0.000078938 188 -100%
1925 177 0.000075858 177 -100%
1926 176 0.000076658 176 -100%
1927 180 0.000077608 180 -100%
1928 168 0.000074305 168 -100%
1929 157 0.000071619 157 -100%
1930 153 0.000068817 153 -100%
1931 147 0.000069854 6 141 -92%
1932 151 0.00007152 151 -100%
1933 155 0.000077521 155 -100%
1934 185 0.000089079 185 -100%
1935 163 0.000077994 163 -100%
1936 193 0.000092897 193 -100%
1937 180 0.00008448 180 -100%
1938 206 0.000093104 206 -100%
1939 259 0.000117543 259 -100%
1940 261 0.000113346 261 -100%
1941 291 0.000119437 291 -100%
1942 313 0.000114576 313 -100%
1943 351 0.000124355 351 -100%
1944 282 0.00010483 282 -100%
1945 266 0.000100267 266 -100%
1946 303 0.000094827 303 -100%
1947 337 0.000093551 337 -100%
1948 314 0.000090948 314 -100%
1949 319 0.000091541 319 -100%
1950 327 0.000093339 5 322 -97%
1951 395 0.000107228 395 -100%
1952 340 0.000089521 340 -100%
1953 295 0.000076551 295 -100%
1954 291 0.000073103 291 -100%
1955 325 0.000080945 325 -100%
1956 314 0.000076157 6 308 -96%
1957 275 0.000065443 275 -100%
1958 284 0.0000687 284 -100%
1959 319 0.00007672 319 -100%
1960 362 0.000087149 5 357 -97%
1961 398 0.000096082 398 -100%
1962 380 0.000094167 380 -100%
1963 415 0.000104846 5 410 -98%
1964 425 0.000109322 425 -100%
1965 456 0.000125778 456 -100%
1966 366 0.000105304 366 -100%
1967 375 0.00011046 375 -100%
1968 547 0.00016191 7 540 -97%
1969 709 0.00020401 709 -100%
1970 725 0.000201025 8 717 -98%
1971 622 0.000181217 622 -100%
1972 621 0.000197582 621 -100%
1973 598 0.000198218 6 592 -98%
1974 571 0.000187829 7 564 -98%
1975 702 0.000232497 6 696 -98%
1976 777 0.000256072 6 771 -98%
1977 731 0.000230128 731 -100%
1978 751 0.00023662 14 737 -96%
1979 860 0.000258491 12 848 -97%
1980 738 0.000214254 17 721 -95%
1981 838 0.00024224 11 827 -97%
1982 945 0.000269387 18 927 -96%
1983 963 0.000278055 20 943 -96%
1984 945 0.00027087 10 935 -98%
1985 1130 0.000316606 16 1114 -97%
1986 1672 0.000470049 28 1644 -97%
1987 2305 0.000639281 54 2251 -95%
1988 2763 0.000747759 68 2695 -95%
1989 3229 0.000839913 103 3126 -94%
1990 3557 0.000899942 137 3420 -92%
1991 3695 0.000948588 131 3564 -93%
1992 3827 0.000996284 131 3696 -93%
1993 4027 0.001068091 143 3884 -93%
1994 3952 0.001063036 139 3813 -93%
1995 3741 0.00102153 123 3618 -93%
1996 3723 0.001020784 114 3609 -94%
1997 3881 0.0010704 115 3766 -94%
1998 4780 0.001299546 161 4619 -93%
1999 4309 0.001166528 115 4194 -95%
2000 4143 0.00109606 99 4044 -95%
2001 3816 0.001019397 84 3732 -96%
2002 3538 0.000946422 90 3448 -95%
2003 2962 0.000778998 54 2908 -96%
2004 2733 0.000715272 69 2664 -95%
2005 2356 0.000612769 39 2317 -97%
2006 2229 0.000563421 43 2186 -96%
2007 2411 0.000603099 46 2365 -96%
2008 2144 0.000545455 52 2092 -95%
2009 1734 0.000453906 38 1696 -96%
2010 1612 0.000436178 57 1555 -93%
2011 1685 0.00046066 100 1585 -88%
2012 1681 0.00045962 145 1536 -83%
2013 1638 0.000449301 179 1459 -78%
2014 1723 0.000464875 203 1520 -76%
2015 1672 0.000451781 239 1433 -71%
2016 1616 0.000440483 245 1371 -70%
2017 1477 0.000413009 267 1210 -64%
2018 1361 0.000387099 247 1114 -64%
2019 1280 0.000368777 242 1038 -62%
2020 1284 0.000384365 238 1046 -63%
2021 1290 0.000380761 241 1049 -63%
2022 1218 0.000360021 230 988 -62%
2023 1147 0.000346401 245 902 -57%
2024 1056 0.00031726 216 840 -59%

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