How popular is “Tesla” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Tesla” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Tesla” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1985	5	0.000001401	5		100%
1987	9	0.000002496	9		100%
1988	19	0.000005142	19		100%
1989	27	0.000007023	27		100%
1990	107	0.000027072	107		100%
1991	122	0.00003132	122		100%
1992	145	0.000037748	145		100%
1993	108	0.000028645	108		100%
1994	96	0.000025823	96		100%
1995	95	0.000025941	95		100%
1996	83	0.000022757	83		100%
1997	79	0.000021789	79		100%
1998	53	0.000014409	53		100%
1999	55	0.00001489	55		100%
2000	36	0.000009524	36		100%
2001	36	0.000009617	36		100%
2002	35	0.000009363	35		100%
2003	23	0.000006049	23		100%
2004	34	0.000008898	34		100%
2005	28	0.000007282	28		100%
2006	32	0.000008089	32		100%
2007	33	0.000008255	33		100%
2008	39	0.000009922	39		100%
2009	66	0.000017277	61	5	85%
2010	59	0.000015964	59		100%
2011	80	0.000021871	70	10	75%
2012	105	0.000028709	100	5	90%
2013	149	0.00004087	135	14	81%
2014	122	0.000032916	113	9	85%
2015	173	0.000046745	167	6	93%
2016	179	0.000048791	161	18	80%
2017	145	0.000040546	134	11	85%
2018	111	0.000031571	104	7	87%
2019	80	0.000023049	74	6	85%
2020	57	0.000017063	50	7	75%
2021	29	0.00000856	29		100%
2022	19	0.000005616	19		100%
2023	13	0.000003926	13		100%

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