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How popular is “Sullivan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sullivan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sullivan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sullivan” 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
1884 7 0.000028752 7 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 -100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 -100%
1890 10 0.000033178 10 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1892 11 0.000032897 11 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 -100%
1900 10 0.000022209 10 -100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 11 0.000011133 11 -100%
1913 9 0.000007915 9 -100%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 -100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 -100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 -100%
1917 18 0.00000897 18 -100%
1918 18 0.000008291 18 -100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 -100%
1920 15 0.000006629 15 -100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 -100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 -100%
1923 15 0.000006515 15 -100%
1924 15 0.000006298 15 -100%
1925 19 0.000008143 19 -100%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 -100%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 -100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 13 0.000006178 13 -100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 -100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 -100%
1934 13 0.00000626 13 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 7 0.000003164 7 -100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 -100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 -100%
1946 20 0.000006259 20 -100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 -100%
1948 15 0.000004345 15 -100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 -100%
1950 11 0.00000314 11 -100%
1951 15 0.000004072 15 -100%
1952 18 0.000004739 18 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 17 0.000004046 17 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 -100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 -100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 -100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 -100%
1990 26 0.000006578 26 -100%
1991 30 0.000007702 30 -100%
1992 34 0.000008851 34 -100%
1993 62 0.000016444 10 52 -68%
1994 41 0.000011028 9 32 -56%
1995 72 0.000019661 14 58 -61%
1996 77 0.000021112 10 67 -74%
1997 80 0.000022064 11 69 -73%
1998 97 0.000026372 11 86 -77%
1999 100 0.000027072 19 81 -62%
2000 104 0.000027514 19 85 -63%
2001 137 0.000036598 13 124 -81%
2002 188 0.00005029 29 159 -69%
2003 191 0.000050233 20 171 -79%
2004 195 0.000051035 18 177 -82%
2005 212 0.000055139 22 190 -79%
2006 232 0.000058642 29 203 -75%
2007 351 0.000087801 37 314 -79%
2008 354 0.000090061 22 332 -88%
2009 418 0.000109419 38 380 -82%
2010 399 0.000107962 28 371 -86%
2011 517 0.000141342 29 488 -89%
2012 596 0.000162959 48 548 -84%
2013 593 0.000162659 53 540 -82%
2014 683 0.000184277 49 634 -86%
2015 737 0.00019914 70 667 -81%
2016 863 0.000235233 80 783 -81%
2017 888 0.000248309 91 797 -80%
2018 905 0.000257402 83 822 -82%
2019 852 0.000245467 74 778 -83%
2020 846 0.00025325 77 769 -82%
2021 957 0.000282472 81 876 -83%
2022 988 0.000292037 87 901 -82%
2023 1003 0.000302912 85 918 -83%
2024 1113 0.000334385 102 1011 -82%

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