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How popular is “Tennyson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tennyson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tennyson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tennyson” 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
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 -100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 -100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 -100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 -100%
1927 9 0.00000388 9 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1930 10 0.000004498 10 -100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1978 12 0.000003781 12 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 -100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 -100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 -100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 -100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 -100%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 -100%
2000 18 0.000004762 18 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 -100%
2003 20 0.00000526 8 12 -20%
2004 26 0.000006805 7 19 -46%
2005 24 0.000006242 6 18 -50%
2006 37 0.000009352 11 26 -41%
2007 43 0.000010756 14 29 -35%
2008 53 0.000013484 19 34 -28%
2009 41 0.000010732 12 29 -41%
2010 57 0.000015423 18 39 -37%
2011 49 0.000013396 15 34 -39%
2012 47 0.000012851 15 32 -36%
2013 65 0.000017829 21 44 -35%
2014 73 0.000019696 25 48 -32%
2015 68 0.000018374 22 46 -35%
2016 71 0.000019353 37 34 4%
2017 80 0.00002237 43 37 8%
2018 71 0.000020194 27 44 -24%
2019 65 0.000018727 22 43 -32%
2020 53 0.000015866 18 35 -32%
2021 36 0.000010626 12 24 -33%
2022 48 0.000014188 17 31 -29%
2023 34 0.000010268 13 21 -24%
2024 37 0.000011116 8 29 -57%

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