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How popular is “Stirling” in the USA?

Number of people named “Stirling” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Stirling” by birth year

This chart shows how “Stirling” 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
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1927 10 0.000004312 10 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1962 13 0.000003222 13 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 13 0.000003289 13 -100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 -100%
1996 23 0.000006306 10 13 -13%
1997 25 0.000006895 6 19 -52%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 18 0.000004808 6 12 -33%
2002 19 0.000005083 7 12 -26%
2003 14 0.000003682 14 -100%
2004 21 0.000005496 7 14 -33%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 -100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 -100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 -100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 24 0.000006485 24 -100%
2016 21 0.000005724 21 -100%
2017 27 0.00000755 7 20 -48%
2018 25 0.000007111 7 18 -44%
2019 17 0.000004898 17 -100%
2020 23 0.000006885 5 18 -57%
2021 21 0.000006198 8 13 -24%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 -100%
2024 25 0.000007511 10 15 -20%

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