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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sway” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sway” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sway” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sway” 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
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 100%
2003 19 0.000004997 14 5 47%
2004 13 0.000003402 13 100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 100%
2007 23 0.000005753 14 9 22%
2008 12 0.000003053 7 5 17%
2009 13 0.000003403 8 5 23%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2012 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2013 17 0.000004663 12 5 41%
2014 15 0.000004047 10 5 33%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 12 0.000003271 6 6 0%
2017 11 0.000003076 6 5 9%
2018 17 0.000004835 8 9 -6%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 -100%
2020 17 0.000005089 10 7 18%
2021 13 0.000003837 6 7 -8%
2022 22 0.000006503 13 9 18%
2023 16 0.000004832 10 6 25%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 -100%

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