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How popular is “Teddy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Teddy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Teddy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Teddy” 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
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1900 16 0.000035535 16 -100%
1901 15 0.000043376 15 -100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 -100%
1903 14 0.000036726 14 -100%
1904 17 0.000042133 17 -100%
1905 26 0.000061332 5 21 -62%
1906 25 0.00005835 8 17 -36%
1907 20 0.000042975 20 -100%
1908 19 0.000038883 7 12 -26%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 23 0.000038936 23 -100%
1911 29 0.000045012 8 21 -45%
1912 61 0.000061737 6 55 -80%
1913 46 0.000040453 9 37 -61%
1914 80 0.000056483 80 -100%
1915 137 0.000074764 5 132 -93%
1916 153 0.000079094 7 146 -91%
1917 187 0.000093185 6 181 -94%
1918 271 0.000124821 11 260 -92%
1919 257 0.000121787 18 239 -86%
1920 245 0.00010828 7 238 -94%
1921 282 0.000120796 7 275 -95%
1922 243 0.000106153 10 233 -92%
1923 296 0.000128557 19 277 -87%
1924 307 0.000128904 15 292 -90%
1925 280 0.000120002 18 262 -87%
1926 336 0.000146348 25 311 -85%
1927 334 0.000144005 21 313 -87%
1928 403 0.000178245 15 388 -93%
1929 402 0.000183381 24 378 -88%
1930 430 0.000193407 13 417 -94%
1931 443 0.000210513 19 424 -91%
1932 487 0.000230665 25 462 -90%
1933 499 0.000249569 23 476 -91%
1934 476 0.000229197 19 457 -92%
1935 434 0.000207665 20 414 -91%
1936 458 0.000220449 27 431 -88%
1937 461 0.000216364 27 434 -88%
1938 482 0.000217846 33 449 -86%
1939 444 0.000201503 23 421 -90%
1940 479 0.000208018 28 451 -88%
1941 507 0.000208092 23 484 -91%
1942 553 0.000202429 37 516 -87%
1943 562 0.00019911 58 504 -79%
1944 538 0.000199994 33 505 -88%
1945 517 0.00019488 45 472 -83%
1946 578 0.00018089 25 553 -91%
1947 544 0.000151014 35 509 -87%
1948 570 0.000165097 32 538 -89%
1949 637 0.000182795 24 613 -92%
1950 576 0.000164414 27 549 -91%
1951 595 0.000161521 33 562 -89%
1952 562 0.000147972 22 540 -92%
1953 553 0.000143501 20 533 -93%
1954 497 0.000124852 20 477 -92%
1955 509 0.000126772 23 486 -91%
1956 576 0.000139703 14 562 -95%
1957 594 0.000141356 26 568 -91%
1958 586 0.000141755 21 565 -93%
1959 589 0.000141655 15 574 -95%
1960 605 0.000145649 14 591 -95%
1961 622 0.000150158 13 609 -96%
1962 583 0.000144472 12 571 -96%
1963 555 0.000140215 8 547 -97%
1964 567 0.000145848 10 557 -96%
1965 532 0.00014674 8 524 -97%
1966 521 0.0001499 9 512 -97%
1967 461 0.000135792 10 451 -96%
1968 478 0.000141487 8 470 -97%
1969 456 0.000131211 8 448 -96%
1970 384 0.000106474 7 377 -96%
1971 380 0.000110711 8 372 -96%
1972 341 0.000108495 8 333 -95%
1973 269 0.000089165 269 -100%
1974 276 0.00009079 5 271 -96%
1975 286 0.000094721 10 276 -93%
1976 289 0.000095244 289 -100%
1977 293 0.00009224 6 287 -96%
1978 249 0.000078453 5 244 -96%
1979 300 0.000090171 9 291 -94%
1980 251 0.00007287 251 -100%
1981 241 0.000069666 241 -100%
1982 220 0.000062714 220 -100%
1983 195 0.000056304 195 -100%
1984 169 0.000048441 9 160 -89%
1985 154 0.000043148 5 149 -94%
1986 195 0.00005482 8 187 -92%
1987 198 0.000054914 13 185 -87%
1988 208 0.000056292 9 199 -91%
1989 174 0.00004526 11 163 -87%
1990 165 0.000041746 165 -100%
1991 158 0.000040562 7 151 -91%
1992 136 0.000035405 9 127 -87%
1993 134 0.000035541 13 121 -81%
1994 132 0.000035506 12 120 -82%
1995 111 0.00003031 16 95 -71%
1996 140 0.000038386 11 129 -84%
1997 127 0.000035027 11 116 -83%
1998 97 0.000026372 6 91 -88%
1999 102 0.000027613 6 96 -88%
2000 89 0.000023546 89 -100%
2001 94 0.000025111 8 86 -83%
2002 81 0.000021668 5 76 -88%
2003 79 0.000020777 79 -100%
2004 73 0.000019105 5 68 -86%
2005 83 0.000021587 6 77 -86%
2006 78 0.000019716 78 -100%
2007 78 0.000019511 5 73 -87%
2008 73 0.000018572 73 -100%
2009 80 0.000020941 80 -100%
2010 69 0.00001867 69 -100%
2011 81 0.000022145 12 69 -70%
2012 70 0.000019139 7 63 -80%
2013 75 0.000020572 10 65 -73%
2014 91 0.000024552 19 72 -58%
2015 100 0.00002702 9 91 -82%
2016 98 0.000026712 14 84 -71%
2017 108 0.0000302 12 96 -78%
2018 117 0.000033277 18 99 -69%
2019 149 0.000042928 28 121 -62%
2020 162 0.000048495 27 135 -67%
2021 206 0.000060804 38 168 -63%
2022 256 0.000075669 44 212 -66%
2023 284 0.00008577 62 222 -56%
2024 307 0.000092234 45 262 -71%

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