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How popular is “Spenser” in the USA?

Number of people named “Spenser” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Spenser” by birth year

This chart shows how “Spenser” 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
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1984 10 0.000002866 10 -100%
1985 24 0.000006724 24 -100%
1986 93 0.000026145 93 -100%
1987 265 0.000073496 17 248 -87%
1988 359 0.000097157 26 333 -86%
1989 293 0.000076214 32 261 -78%
1990 250 0.000063251 32 218 -74%
1991 213 0.000054682 31 182 -71%
1992 197 0.000051285 36 161 -63%
1993 136 0.000036072 28 108 -59%
1994 150 0.000040348 23 127 -69%
1995 193 0.000052701 23 170 -76%
1996 152 0.000041676 15 137 -80%
1997 127 0.000035027 17 110 -73%
1998 112 0.00003045 18 94 -68%
1999 91 0.000024635 8 83 -82%
2000 90 0.00002381 6 84 -87%
2001 75 0.000020035 8 67 -79%
2002 71 0.000018993 7 64 -80%
2003 56 0.000014728 5 51 -82%
2004 40 0.000010469 40 -100%
2005 35 0.000009103 6 29 -66%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 -100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 -100%
2008 21 0.000005343 21 -100%
2009 18 0.000004712 18 -100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 -100%
2011 21 0.000005741 5 16 -52%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 -100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 -100%
2014 21 0.000005666 7 14 -33%
2015 18 0.000004864 5 13 -44%
2017 14 0.000003915 9 5 29%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 -100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 -100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 -100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 -100%
2022 14 0.000004138 8 6 14%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 -100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 -100%

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