Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sy” 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
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 -100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 -100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 -100%
1974 15 0.000004934 15 -100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 -100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 -100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 -100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 18 0.000005226 18 -100%
1981 18 0.000005203 18 -100%
1982 22 0.000006271 22 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 -100%
1985 18 0.000005043 18 -100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 -100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1991 18 0.000004621 18 -100%
1992 13 0.000003384 13 -100%
1993 15 0.000003978 15 -100%
1994 14 0.000003766 14 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 -100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 -100%
1997 16 0.000004413 16 -100%
1998 20 0.000005437 20 -100%
1999 24 0.000006497 24 -100%
2000 21 0.000005556 21 -100%
2001 20 0.000005343 20 -100%
2002 23 0.000006153 23 -100%
2003 33 0.000008679 33 -100%
2004 23 0.000006019 23 -100%
2005 32 0.000008323 32 -100%
2006 26 0.000006572 26 -100%
2007 22 0.000005503 22 -100%
2008 29 0.000007378 29 -100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 -100%
2010 18 0.00000487 18 -100%
2011 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2012 21 0.000005742 21 -100%
2013 30 0.000008229 30 -100%
2014 8 0.000002158 8 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 15 0.000004089 15 -100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 -100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 -100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 -100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 -100%
2022 8 0.000002365 8 -100%
2023 11 0.000003322 11 -100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

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