Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Tacoma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tacoma” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tacoma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tacoma” 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
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 100%
1979 10 0.000003006 5 5 0%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 -100%
1997 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 -100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2002 38 0.000010165 6 32 -68%
2003 14 0.000003682 14 -100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 -100%
2007 19 0.000004753 5 14 -47%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 -100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%

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