How popular is “Stanford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Stanford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Stanford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Stanford” 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	Males	Bias toward female
1880	6	0.000029779	6	-100%
1887	6	0.000024253	6	-100%
1894	10	0.000029526	10	-100%
1895	6	0.000017093	6	-100%
1898	7	0.000018351	7	-100%
1899	6	0.000017687	6	-100%
1900	11	0.00002443	11	-100%
1901	5	0.000014459	5	-100%
1903	10	0.000026233	10	-100%
1904	8	0.000019827	8	-100%
1905	6	0.000014154	6	-100%
1906	13	0.000030342	13	-100%
1907	16	0.00003438	16	-100%
1908	15	0.000030697	15	-100%
1909	20	0.000039122	20	-100%
1910	20	0.000033858	20	-100%
1911	21	0.000032595	21	-100%
1912	43	0.00004352	43	-100%
1913	58	0.000051007	58	-100%
1914	68	0.000048011	68	-100%
1915	87	0.000047478	87	-100%
1916	76	0.000039288	76	-100%
1917	107	0.00005332	107	-100%
1918	92	0.000042375	92	-100%
1919	90	0.000042649	90	-100%
1920	97	0.00004287	97	-100%
1921	93	0.000039837	93	-100%
1922	119	0.000051984	119	-100%
1923	92	0.000039957	92	-100%
1924	93	0.000039049	93	-100%
1925	94	0.000040286	94	-100%
1926	100	0.000043556	100	-100%
1927	131	0.000056481	131	-100%
1928	118	0.000052191	118	-100%
1929	118	0.000053828	118	-100%
1930	101	0.000045428	101	-100%
1931	130	0.000061776	130	-100%
1932	86	0.000040733	86	-100%
1933	92	0.000046013	92	-100%
1934	103	0.000049595	103	-100%
1935	86	0.00004115	86	-100%
1936	90	0.00004332	90	-100%
1937	85	0.000039894	85	-100%
1938	105	0.000047456	105	-100%
1939	82	0.000037215	82	-100%
1940	79	0.000034308	79	-100%
1941	92	0.00003776	92	-100%
1942	96	0.000035141	96	-100%
1943	74	0.000026217	74	-100%
1944	95	0.000035315	95	-100%
1945	84	0.000031663	84	-100%
1946	97	0.000030357	97	-100%
1947	113	0.000031369	113	-100%
1948	129	0.000037364	129	-100%
1949	127	0.000036444	127	-100%
1950	119	0.000033967	119	-100%
1951	122	0.000033119	122	-100%
1952	126	0.000033175	126	-100%
1953	114	0.000029582	114	-100%
1954	135	0.000033914	135	-100%
1955	105	0.000026151	105	-100%
1956	124	0.000030075	124	-100%
1957	132	0.000031413	132	-100%
1958	113	0.000027335	113	-100%
1959	101	0.000024291	101	-100%
1960	104	0.000025037	104	-100%
1961	104	0.000025107	104	-100%
1962	113	0.000028002	113	-100%
1963	92	0.000023243	92	-100%
1964	79	0.000020321	79	-100%
1965	99	0.000027307	99	-100%
1966	92	0.00002647	92	-100%
1967	83	0.000024448	83	-100%
1968	97	0.000028712	97	-100%
1969	73	0.000021005	73	-100%
1970	70	0.000019409	70	-100%
1971	95	0.000027678	95	-100%
1972	75	0.000023863	75	-100%
1973	71	0.000023534	71	-100%
1974	55	0.000018092	55	-100%
1975	53	0.000017553	53	-100%
1976	35	0.000011535	35	-100%
1977	41	0.000012907	41	-100%
1978	39	0.000012288	39	-100%
1979	51	0.000015329	51	-100%
1980	36	0.000010451	36	-100%
1981	50	0.000014453	50	-100%
1982	50	0.000014253	50	-100%
1983	45	0.000012993	45	-100%
1984	38	0.000010892	38	-100%
1985	47	0.000013169	47	-100%
1986	45	0.000012651	45	-100%
1987	49	0.00001359	49	-100%
1988	52	0.000014073	52	-100%
1989	43	0.000011185	43	-100%
1990	36	0.000009108	36	-100%
1991	57	0.000014633	57	-100%
1992	38	0.000009893	38	-100%
1993	36	0.000009548	36	-100%
1994	29	0.000007801	29	-100%
1995	37	0.000010103	37	-100%
1996	29	0.000007951	29	-100%
1997	29	0.000007998	29	-100%
1998	25	0.000006797	25	-100%
1999	18	0.000004873	18	-100%
2000	17	0.000004497	17	-100%
2001	21	0.00000561	21	-100%
2002	23	0.000006153	23	-100%
2003	21	0.000005523	21	-100%
2004	19	0.000004973	19	-100%
2005	22	0.000005722	22	-100%
2006	21	0.000005308	21	-100%
2007	14	0.000003502	14	-100%
2008	15	0.000003816	15	-100%
2009	12	0.000003141	12	-100%
2010	16	0.000004329	16	-100%
2011	7	0.000001914	7	-100%
2012	21	0.000005742	21	-100%
2013	15	0.000004114	15	-100%
2014	20	0.000005396	20	-100%
2015	18	0.000004864	18	-100%
2016	12	0.000003271	12	-100%
2017	16	0.000004474	16	-100%
2018	17	0.000004835	17	-100%
2019	7	0.000002017	7	-100%
2020	13	0.000003892	13	-100%
2021	19	0.000005608	19	-100%
2022	21	0.000006207	21	-100%
2023	7	0.000002114	7	-100%
2024	11	0.000003305	11	-100%

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