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How popular is “Tessie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tessie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tessie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tessie” 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 17 0.000084374 17 100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 100%
1882 19 0.000085766 19 100%
1883 9 0.000041485 9 100%
1884 26 0.000106793 26 100%
1885 19 0.000078886 19 100%
1886 24 0.000094001 24 100%
1887 32 0.000129349 32 100%
1888 44 0.000146924 44 100%
1889 45 0.000155738 45 100%
1890 47 0.000155938 47 100%
1891 57 0.000198833 57 100%
1892 54 0.000161496 54 100%
1893 61 0.000187564 61 100%
1894 55 0.00016239 55 100%
1895 61 0.000173779 61 100%
1896 68 0.000190218 68 100%
1897 60 0.000172932 60 100%
1898 66 0.000173022 66 100%
1899 66 0.000194556 66 100%
1900 94 0.000208769 94 100%
1901 67 0.000193747 67 100%
1902 63 0.000162903 63 100%
1903 68 0.000178384 68 100%
1904 101 0.000250319 101 100%
1905 85 0.000200509 85 100%
1906 88 0.000205391 88 100%
1907 94 0.000201981 94 100%
1908 117 0.000239436 117 100%
1909 100 0.000195609 100 100%
1910 118 0.000199759 118 100%
1911 136 0.000211089 136 100%
1912 170 0.000172054 170 100%
1913 187 0.000164452 187 100%
1914 230 0.00016239 230 100%
1915 292 0.000159352 292 100%
1916 340 0.000175764 340 100%
1917 393 0.000195839 393 100%
1918 365 0.000168117 360 5 97%
1919 357 0.000169175 357 100%
1920 313 0.000138334 313 100%
1921 293 0.000125508 293 100%
1922 256 0.000111832 251 5 96%
1923 235 0.000102064 235 100%
1924 201 0.000084397 201 100%
1925 191 0.000081858 191 100%
1926 190 0.000082756 190 100%
1927 149 0.000064242 149 100%
1928 128 0.000056614 128 100%
1929 132 0.000060215 132 100%
1930 102 0.000045878 102 100%
1931 76 0.000036115 76 100%
1932 94 0.000044523 94 100%
1933 78 0.000039011 78 100%
1934 71 0.000034187 71 100%
1935 70 0.000033494 70 100%
1936 48 0.000023104 48 100%
1937 43 0.000020181 43 100%
1938 40 0.000018078 40 100%
1939 45 0.000020423 45 100%
1940 41 0.000017805 41 100%
1941 40 0.000016417 40 100%
1942 43 0.00001574 43 100%
1943 42 0.00001488 42 100%
1944 38 0.000014126 38 100%
1945 37 0.000013947 37 100%
1946 35 0.000010954 35 100%
1947 53 0.000014713 53 100%
1948 45 0.000013034 45 100%
1949 45 0.000012913 45 100%
1950 39 0.000011132 39 100%
1951 37 0.000010044 37 100%
1952 36 0.000009479 36 100%
1953 27 0.000007006 27 100%
1954 40 0.000010048 40 100%
1955 46 0.000011457 46 100%
1956 35 0.000008489 35 100%
1957 48 0.000011423 48 100%
1958 46 0.000011127 46 100%
1959 48 0.000011544 48 100%
1960 61 0.000014685 61 100%
1961 57 0.00001376 57 100%
1962 53 0.000013134 53 100%
1963 43 0.000010864 43 100%
1964 69 0.000017749 69 100%
1965 64 0.000017653 64 100%
1966 49 0.000014098 49 100%
1967 68 0.00002003 68 100%
1968 77 0.000022792 77 100%
1969 63 0.000018128 63 100%
1970 73 0.000020241 73 100%
1971 73 0.000021268 73 100%
1972 66 0.000020999 66 100%
1973 65 0.000021545 65 100%
1974 38 0.0000125 38 100%
1975 42 0.00001391 42 100%
1976 51 0.000016808 51 100%
1977 55 0.000017315 55 100%
1978 33 0.000010397 33 100%
1979 52 0.00001563 52 100%
1980 47 0.000013645 47 100%
1981 61 0.000017633 61 100%
1982 55 0.000015679 55 100%
1983 42 0.000012127 42 100%
1984 40 0.000011465 40 100%
1985 39 0.000010927 39 100%
1986 33 0.000009277 33 100%
1987 36 0.000009984 36 100%
1988 32 0.00000866 32 100%
1989 23 0.000005983 23 100%
1990 27 0.000006831 27 100%
1991 33 0.000008472 33 100%
1992 22 0.000005727 22 100%
1993 31 0.000008222 31 100%
1994 29 0.000007801 29 100%
1995 23 0.00000628 23 100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 100%
1997 19 0.00000524 19 100%
1998 18 0.000004894 18 100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 100%
2004 14 0.000003664 14 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 100%
2014 18 0.000004856 18 100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 100%
2016 19 0.000005179 19 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 100%

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