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How popular is “Tennessee” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tennessee” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tennessee” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tennessee” 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
1880 5 0.000024816 5 100%
1882 10 0.00004514 10 100%
1884 14 0.000057504 14 100%
1885 10 0.000041519 10 100%
1887 11 0.000044464 11 100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1890 9 0.000029861 9 100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 100%
1895 10 0.000028488 10 100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 13 0.000033615 13 100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 12 0.000029741 12 100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 100%
1906 11 0.000025674 11 100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 100%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 100%
1912 11 0.000011133 11 100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 100%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 100%
1915 15 0.000008186 15 100%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 100%
1919 12 0.000005687 12 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 100%
1922 10 0.000004368 10 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1995 12 0.000003277 6 6 0%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 100%
1999 17 0.000004602 10 7 18%
2000 10 0.000002646 5 5 0%
2001 15 0.000004007 6 9 -20%
2002 13 0.000003478 8 5 23%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 100%
2004 21 0.000005496 10 11 -5%
2005 19 0.000004942 10 9 5%
2006 23 0.000005814 10 13 -13%
2007 29 0.000007254 11 18 -24%
2008 12 0.000003053 6 6 0%
2009 13 0.000003403 7 6 8%
2010 22 0.000005953 10 12 -9%
2011 22 0.000006015 12 10 9%
2012 27 0.000007382 16 11 19%
2013 36 0.000009875 19 17 6%
2014 43 0.000011602 24 19 12%
2015 55 0.000014861 27 28 -2%
2016 48 0.000013084 24 24 0%
2017 60 0.000016778 32 28 7%
2018 56 0.000015928 30 26 7%
2019 52 0.000014982 34 18 31%
2020 38 0.000011375 21 17 11%
2021 59 0.000017415 39 20 32%
2022 44 0.000013006 26 18 18%
2023 36 0.000010872 21 15 17%
2024 31 0.000009314 20 11 29%

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