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How popular is “Sully” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sully” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sully” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sully” 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
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1984 40 0.000011465 40 100%
1985 22 0.000006164 22 100%
1986 20 0.000005623 20 100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 28 0.000007283 28 100%
1990 21 0.000005313 21 100%
1991 12 0.000003081 12 100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 13 0.000003448 7 6 8%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 7 7 0%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 -100%
1997 12 0.00000331 6 6 0%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 100%
2000 14 0.000003704 5 9 -29%
2001 20 0.000005343 5 15 -50%
2002 23 0.000006153 23 -100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 -100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 -100%
2005 22 0.000005722 22 -100%
2006 31 0.000007836 8 23 -48%
2007 28 0.000007004 5 23 -64%
2008 30 0.000007632 5 25 -67%
2009 39 0.000010209 7 32 -64%
2010 44 0.000011906 11 33 -50%
2011 47 0.000012849 5 42 -79%
2012 34 0.000009296 34 -100%
2013 25 0.000006857 6 19 -52%
2014 31 0.000008364 7 24 -55%
2015 24 0.000006485 7 17 -42%
2016 21 0.000005724 21 -100%
2017 33 0.000009228 12 21 -27%
2018 34 0.00000967 9 25 -47%
2019 29 0.000008355 8 21 -45%
2020 30 0.00000898 9 21 -40%
2021 39 0.000011511 8 31 -59%
2022 26 0.000007685 9 17 -31%
2023 32 0.000009664 5 27 -69%
2024 37 0.000011116 5 32 -73%

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