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How popular is “Stanley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Stanley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Stanley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Stanley” 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 65 0.000322606 65 -100%
1881 76 0.00039442 76 -100%
1882 76 0.000343064 76 -100%
1883 68 0.000313442 68 -100%
1884 105 0.000431281 105 -100%
1885 97 0.000402734 97 -100%
1886 95 0.000372088 95 -100%
1887 110 0.000444638 110 -100%
1888 154 0.000514235 154 -100%
1889 151 0.000522589 151 -100%
1890 223 0.000739878 223 -100%
1891 178 0.000620916 178 -100%
1892 181 0.00054131 181 -100%
1893 212 0.00065186 212 -100%
1894 218 0.000643656 218 -100%
1895 233 0.00066378 233 -100%
1896 259 0.000724508 259 -100%
1897 240 0.000691728 240 -100%
1898 295 0.000773355 295 -100%
1899 258 0.000760537 258 -100%
1900 349 0.000775111 7 342 -96%
1901 239 0.000691127 239 -100%
1902 334 0.000863645 334 -100%
1903 366 0.000960126 5 361 -97%
1904 376 0.000931881 5 371 -97%
1905 384 0.000905827 384 -100%
1906 455 0.001061965 455 -100%
1907 521 0.001119491 5 516 -98%
1908 547 0.001119413 547 -100%
1909 614 0.001201039 7 607 -98%
1910 766 0.001296742 5 761 -99%
1911 1003 0.001556781 6 997 -99%
1912 2017 0.00204137 2017 -100%
1913 2608 0.002293534 13 2595 -99%
1914 3567 0.002518456 8 3559 -100%
1915 4824 0.002632576 17 4807 -99%
1916 5149 0.002661784 19 5130 -99%
1917 5205 0.002593746 19 5186 -99%
1918 5646 0.002600512 28 5618 -99%
1919 5263 0.002494023 25 5238 -99%
1920 5333 0.002356978 19 5314 -99%
1921 5259 0.002252726 28 5231 -99%
1922 5060 0.002210422 15 5045 -99%
1923 5061 0.002198064 25 5036 -99%
1924 5215 0.002189695 29 5186 -99%
1925 5055 0.002166458 25 5030 -99%
1926 5006 0.002180404 40 4966 -98%
1927 4949 0.00213378 47 4902 -98%
1928 4517 0.001997843 36 4481 -98%
1929 4305 0.001963816 40 4265 -98%
1930 4415 0.001985798 32 4383 -99%
1931 4229 0.00200961 27 4202 -99%
1932 3792 0.001796057 33 3759 -98%
1933 3457 0.001728978 24 3433 -99%
1934 3583 0.001725237 15 3568 -99%
1935 3707 0.001773769 11 3696 -99%
1936 3511 0.001689949 19 3492 -99%
1937 3493 0.00163939 9 3484 -99%
1938 3554 0.001606274 10 3544 -99%
1939 3581 0.001625185 11 3570 -99%
1940 3703 0.001608123 10 3693 -99%
1941 3945 0.001619176 19 3926 -99%
1942 4609 0.001687155 22 4587 -99%
1943 4735 0.001677556 36 4699 -98%
1944 4146 0.001541219 25 4121 -99%
1945 4073 0.001535295 15 4058 -99%
1946 4784 0.001497196 17 4767 -99%
1947 5516 0.001531235 14 5502 -99%
1948 5397 0.001563207 14 5383 -99%
1949 5546 0.001591494 19 5527 -99%
1950 5466 0.001560217 13 5453 -100%
1951 6223 0.001689316 18 6205 -99%
1952 6242 0.001643494 16 6226 -99%
1953 6296 0.001633778 21 6275 -99%
1954 6472 0.001625841 24 6448 -99%
1955 6069 0.001511551 19 6050 -99%
1956 6005 0.001456451 20 5985 -99%
1957 5292 0.001259357 25 5267 -99%
1958 4930 0.001192577 20 4910 -99%
1959 4369 0.001050748 26 4343 -99%
1960 4238 0.001020267 20 4218 -99%
1961 3953 0.000954301 29 3924 -99%
1962 3657 0.000906236 21 3636 -99%
1963 3555 0.000898136 14 3541 -99%
1964 3142 0.00080821 12 3130 -99%
1965 2832 0.000781145 14 2818 -99%
1966 2454 0.000706054 17 2437 -99%
1967 2269 0.000668356 22 2247 -98%
1968 2161 0.000639649 16 2145 -99%
1969 1921 0.000552754 15 1906 -98%
1970 1965 0.000544847 15 1950 -98%
1971 1778 0.000518012 9 1769 -99%
1972 1489 0.000473752 14 1475 -98%
1973 1371 0.000454442 13 1358 -98%
1974 1155 0.000379934 10 1145 -98%
1975 1182 0.000391469 12 1170 -98%
1976 1161 0.000382625 9 1152 -98%
1977 1127 0.000354794 12 1115 -98%
1978 1028 0.000323895 7 1021 -99%
1979 1072 0.000322212 7 1065 -99%
1980 1107 0.000321381 11 1096 -98%
1981 1027 0.000296874 13 1014 -97%
1982 1005 0.000286491 5 1000 -99%
1983 920 0.00026564 12 908 -97%
1984 892 0.000255679 7 885 -98%
1985 925 0.000259168 5 920 -99%
1986 876 0.00024627 5 871 -99%
1987 828 0.000229642 7 821 -98%
1988 839 0.000227061 13 826 -97%
1989 877 0.000228121 8 869 -98%
1990 814 0.000205947 6 808 -99%
1991 778 0.00019973 778 -100%
1992 694 0.000180669 694 -100%
1993 637 0.000168953 637 -100%
1994 607 0.000163275 607 -100%
1995 562 0.000153462 562 -100%
1996 531 0.000145591 531 -100%
1997 525 0.000144798 525 -100%
1998 473 0.000128595 473 -100%
1999 508 0.000137525 508 -100%
2000 453 0.000119844 453 -100%
2001 443 0.000118342 443 -100%
2002 472 0.000126261 472 -100%
2003 405 0.000106514 405 -100%
2004 413 0.000108089 413 -100%
2005 410 0.000106636 410 -100%
2006 404 0.000102118 404 -100%
2007 398 0.000099558 398 -100%
2008 370 0.000094132 370 -100%
2009 359 0.000093975 359 -100%
2010 347 0.000093892 347 -100%
2011 348 0.000095139 348 -100%
2012 315 0.000086128 315 -100%
2013 355 0.000097376 355 -100%
2014 372 0.000100368 372 -100%
2015 365 0.000098624 365 -100%
2016 367 0.000100035 367 -100%
2017 351 0.000098149 351 -100%
2018 344 0.000097841 344 -100%
2019 377 0.000108616 377 -100%
2020 334 0.000099983 334 -100%
2021 312 0.000092091 312 -100%
2022 324 0.000095769 324 -100%
2023 304 0.00009181 304 -100%
2024 275 0.00008262 275 -100%

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