Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Summer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Summer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Summer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Summer” 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
1918 9 0.000004145 9 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1952 18 0.000004739 18 100%
1953 20 0.00000519 20 100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 100%
1955 22 0.000005479 22 100%
1956 20 0.000004851 20 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 17 0.000004112 17 100%
1959 22 0.000005291 22 100%
1960 27 0.0000065 27 100%
1961 35 0.000008449 35 100%
1962 19 0.000004708 19 100%
1963 36 0.000009095 36 100%
1964 33 0.000008489 33 100%
1965 29 0.000007999 29 100%
1966 33 0.000009495 33 100%
1967 45 0.000013255 45 100%
1968 48 0.000014208 48 100%
1969 79 0.000022732 79 100%
1970 99 0.00002745 99 100%
1971 156 0.00004545 156 100%
1972 197 0.000062679 197 100%
1973 190 0.000062979 184 6 94%
1974 314 0.00010329 314 100%
1975 785 0.000259986 785 100%
1976 1083 0.000356919 1072 11 98%
1977 2467 0.000776642 2447 20 98%
1978 1930 0.00060809 1917 13 99%
1979 1869 0.000561767 1861 8 99%
1980 1762 0.000511539 1754 8 99%
1981 1551 0.000448347 1544 7 99%
1982 1268 0.000361463 1262 6 99%
1983 1177 0.000339845 1166 11 98%
1984 1224 0.000350841 1212 12 98%
1985 1167 0.000326972 1167 100%
1986 1135 0.000319082 1127 8 99%
1987 1048 0.000290658 1042 6 99%
1988 986 0.000266844 986 100%
1989 910 0.000236705 910 100%
1990 1021 0.000258319 1021 100%
1991 989 0.000253898 984 5 99%
1992 1102 0.000286884 1102 100%
1993 1623 0.000430472 1617 6 99%
1994 2238 0.000601993 2238 100%
1995 2124 0.000579986 2124 100%
1996 2356 0.000645976 2345 11 99%
1997 2480 0.000683997 2480 100%
1998 2558 0.000695448 2558 100%
1999 2344 0.000634565 2337 7 99%
2000 2339 0.000618799 2339 100%
2001 2321 0.000620026 2314 7 99%
2002 2213 0.000591982 2213 100%
2003 2212 0.00058175 2212 100%
2004 2361 0.000617914 2333 28 98%
2005 2416 0.000628374 2411 5 100%
2006 2261 0.00057151 2261 100%
2007 2252 0.000563326 2252 100%
2008 1958 0.000498135 1958 100%
2009 1902 0.000497883 1902 100%
2010 1887 0.000510588 1887 100%
2011 1822 0.000498115 1817 5 99%
2012 1786 0.000488329 1781 5 99%
2013 1734 0.000475633 1734 100%
2014 1796 0.00048457 1780 16 98%
2015 1700 0.000459346 1692 8 99%
2016 1610 0.000438848 1604 6 99%
2017 1418 0.000396511 1411 7 99%
2018 1553 0.000441708 1553 100%
2019 1639 0.000472207 1639 100%
2020 1814 0.00054302 1814 100%
2021 1965 0.000579997 1960 5 99%
2022 1875 0.00055422 1875 100%
2023 1970 0.000594951 1970 100%
2024 2073 0.000622803 2065 8 99%

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