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How popular is “Teresa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Teresa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Teresa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Teresa” 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 50 0.000248159 50 100%
1881 46 0.000238728 46 100%
1882 50 0.0002257 50 100%
1883 64 0.000295004 64 100%
1884 78 0.00032038 78 100%
1885 66 0.000274025 66 100%
1886 84 0.000329004 84 100%
1887 107 0.000432512 107 100%
1888 111 0.00037065 111 100%
1889 113 0.000391077 113 100%
1890 110 0.000364962 110 100%
1891 131 0.000456967 131 100%
1892 143 0.000427665 143 100%
1893 132 0.000405875 132 100%
1894 157 0.000463551 157 100%
1895 167 0.000475756 167 100%
1896 209 0.000584642 209 100%
1897 159 0.00045827 159 100%
1898 217 0.000568874 217 100%
1899 162 0.000477546 162 100%
1900 204 0.000453074 204 100%
1901 164 0.000474246 164 100%
1902 153 0.000395622 153 100%
1903 174 0.000456453 174 100%
1904 179 0.000443635 179 100%
1905 178 0.000419889 178 100%
1906 198 0.00046213 198 100%
1907 191 0.000410408 191 100%
1908 233 0.000476825 233 100%
1909 215 0.000420559 215 100%
1910 220 0.000372433 220 100%
1911 281 0.000436147 281 100%
1912 344 0.000348156 344 100%
1913 424 0.000372875 424 100%
1914 524 0.000369967 524 100%
1915 686 0.000374367 686 100%
1916 662 0.000342222 662 100%
1917 678 0.00033786 673 5 99%
1918 674 0.00031044 674 100%
1919 706 0.000334558 706 100%
1920 720 0.000318212 720 100%
1921 738 0.000316127 738 100%
1922 707 0.000308847 701 6 98%
1923 724 0.000314443 724 100%
1924 791 0.000332128 786 5 99%
1925 955 0.000409291 955 100%
1926 1166 0.000507861 1159 7 99%
1927 1211 0.000522127 1211 100%
1928 1219 0.000539157 1212 7 99%
1929 1031 0.000470312 1022 9 98%
1930 1001 0.000450234 992 9 98%
1931 952 0.000452388 947 5 99%
1932 866 0.000410176 855 11 97%
1933 753 0.000376604 753 100%
1934 706 0.000339943 706 100%
1935 724 0.000346428 715 9 98%
1936 675 0.000324898 675 100%
1937 668 0.000313516 661 7 98%
1938 700 0.000316374 695 5 99%
1939 649 0.000294539 649 100%
1940 691 0.000300084 686 5 99%
1941 723 0.000296746 716 7 98%
1942 1002 0.000366789 1002 100%
1943 1194 0.00042302 1194 100%
1944 1204 0.00044757 1204 100%
1945 1346 0.000507367 1339 7 99%
1946 1844 0.000577096 1834 10 99%
1947 2810 0.000780052 2810 100%
1948 4226 0.001224034 4217 9 100%
1949 4335 0.001243982 4328 7 100%
1950 4730 0.001350133 4724 6 100%
1951 6225 0.001689859 6214 11 100%
1952 7301 0.001922325 7294 7 100%
1953 8951 0.002322737 8932 19 100%
1954 10864 0.002729163 10842 22 100%
1955 13149 0.003274904 13124 25 100%
1956 14498 0.00351634 14464 34 100%
1957 15719 0.00374071 15686 33 100%
1958 15638 0.003782865 15603 35 100%
1959 17440 0.004194332 17401 39 100%
1960 18874 0.004543775 18835 39 100%
1961 18949 0.004574511 18909 40 100%
1962 18565 0.004600567 18519 46 100%
1963 18015 0.004551311 17963 52 99%
1964 16460 0.004233969 16422 38 100%
1965 14620 0.004032604 14577 43 99%
1966 13069 0.003760155 13024 45 99%
1967 12304 0.003624263 12271 33 99%
1968 10952 0.003241759 10914 38 99%
1969 10393 0.002990513 10356 37 99%
1970 9649 0.002675437 9612 37 99%
1971 8603 0.002506442 8562 41 99%
1972 7206 0.002292718 7177 29 99%
1973 6008 0.001991457 5986 22 99%
1974 5417 0.001781908 5397 20 99%
1975 4659 0.001543025 4640 19 99%
1976 4080 0.001344626 4056 24 99%
1977 3672 0.001155991 3655 17 99%
1978 3485 0.001098029 3472 13 99%
1979 3492 0.001049594 3481 11 99%
1980 3161 0.000917693 3148 13 99%
1981 3137 0.000906811 3122 15 99%
1982 2904 0.000827831 2883 21 99%
1983 2716 0.000784214 2702 14 99%
1984 2405 0.000689358 2387 18 99%
1985 2222 0.000622564 2210 12 99%
1986 2018 0.00056732 2010 8 99%
1987 1793 0.00049728 1781 12 99%
1988 1640 0.000443838 1633 7 99%
1989 1546 0.000402138 1534 12 98%
1990 1620 0.000409869 1613 7 99%
1991 1490 0.000382516 1490 100%
1992 1377 0.000358475 1371 6 99%
1993 1238 0.000328358 1233 5 99%
1994 1098 0.000295348 1098 100%
1995 1054 0.000287809 1044 10 98%
1996 1070 0.000293376 1070 100%
1997 1077 0.000297042 1077 100%
1998 981 0.000266706 981 100%
1999 975 0.000263951 975 100%
2000 899 0.000237837 899 100%
2001 830 0.000221724 830 100%
2002 787 0.000210524 787 100%
2003 704 0.00018515 704 100%
2004 747 0.000195503 747 100%
2005 672 0.000174779 672 100%
2006 566 0.000143067 566 100%
2007 563 0.000140832 563 100%
2008 534 0.000135855 534 100%
2009 453 0.000118581 453 100%
2010 412 0.00011148 412 100%
2011 543 0.00014845 543 100%
2012 472 0.000129055 472 100%
2013 437 0.000119868 437 100%
2014 391 0.000105494 391 100%
2015 429 0.000115917 429 100%
2016 437 0.000119116 437 100%
2017 397 0.000111012 397 100%
2018 347 0.000098695 347 100%
2019 349 0.000100549 349 100%
2020 366 0.000109562 366 100%
2021 341 0.000100651 341 100%
2022 320 0.000094587 320 100%
2023 321 0.000096944 321 100%
2024 310 0.000093135 310 100%

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