Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sylar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sylar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sylar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sylar” 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
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2007 44 0.000011006 6 38 -73%
2008 47 0.000011957 47 -100%
2009 91 0.000023821 91 -100%
2010 76 0.000020564 76 -100%
2011 62 0.00001695 7 55 -77%
2012 74 0.000020233 5 69 -86%
2013 67 0.000018378 67 -100%
2014 75 0.000020235 6 69 -84%
2015 60 0.000016212 6 54 -80%
2016 73 0.000019898 6 67 -84%
2017 41 0.000011465 6 35 -71%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 -100%
2019 28 0.000008067 5 23 -64%
2020 34 0.000010178 5 29 -71%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 -100%
2022 19 0.000005616 19 -100%
2023 15 0.00000453 5 10 -33%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

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