Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sun” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sun” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sun” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sun” 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
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1914 11 0.000007766 11 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 21 0.000005056 15 6 43%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 100%
1972 16 0.000005091 9 7 13%
1974 18 0.000005921 9 9 0%
1975 21 0.000006955 11 10 5%
1976 15 0.000004943 9 6 20%
1977 20 0.000006296 13 7 30%
1978 25 0.000007877 16 9 28%
1979 16 0.000004809 7 9 -13%
1980 23 0.000006677 10 13 -13%
1981 22 0.00000636 14 8 27%
1982 25 0.000007127 11 14 -12%
1983 25 0.000007218 13 12 4%
1984 24 0.000006879 12 12 0%
1985 14 0.000003923 8 6 14%
1986 19 0.000005341 11 8 16%
1987 17 0.000004715 8 9 -6%
1988 17 0.000004601 9 8 6%
1989 19 0.000004942 8 11 -16%
1990 17 0.000004301 12 5 41%
1991 22 0.000005648 16 6 45%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1994 22 0.000005918 13 9 18%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1996 15 0.000004113 8 7 7%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
1999 10 0.000002707 5 5 0%
2000 16 0.000004233 11 5 38%
2001 18 0.000004808 11 7 22%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2014 12 0.000003238 7 5 17%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 -100%
2017 14 0.000003915 6 8 -14%
2018 19 0.000005404 5 14 -47%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 -100%
2020 17 0.000005089 7 10 -18%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 28 0.000008276 9 19 -36%
2023 22 0.000006644 7 15 -36%
2024 19 0.000005708 19 -100%

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