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How popular is “Tempest” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tempest” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tempest” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tempest” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 100%
1963 15 0.00000379 15 100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 41 0.000011487 41 100%
1986 41 0.000011526 41 100%
1987 69 0.000019137 69 100%
1988 46 0.000012449 46 100%
1989 69 0.000017948 69 100%
1990 98 0.000024795 98 100%
1991 54 0.000013863 54 100%
1992 52 0.000013537 52 100%
1993 29 0.000007692 29 100%
1994 22 0.000005918 22 100%
1995 38 0.000010376 38 100%
1996 36 0.000009871 36 100%
1997 22 0.000006068 22 100%
1998 31 0.000008428 31 100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 100%
2001 22 0.000005877 22 100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 100%
2003 29 0.000007627 29 100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 100%
2006 21 0.000005308 21 100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 100%
2009 24 0.000006282 24 100%
2010 20 0.000005412 20 100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 100%
2012 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2013 14 0.00000384 14 100%
2014 26 0.000007015 26 100%
2015 19 0.000005134 19 100%
2016 24 0.000006542 24 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 100%
2019 27 0.000007779 27 100%
2020 14 0.000004191 14 100%
2021 19 0.000005608 19 100%
2022 11 0.000003251 11 100%
2023 17 0.000005134 17 100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 100%

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