How popular is “Theresa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Theresa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Theresa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Theresa” 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	153	0.000759366	153		100%
1881	173	0.000897824	173		100%
1882	170	0.00076738	170		100%
1883	241	0.001110876	241		100%
1884	240	0.000985784	240		100%
1885	232	0.000963239	232		100%
1886	276	0.001081013	276		100%
1887	284	0.001147976	284		100%
1888	377	0.001258874	377		100%
1889	359	0.001242447	359		100%
1890	401	0.001330453	401		100%
1891	370	0.001290669	370		100%
1892	417	0.001247107	417		100%
1893	469	0.001442087	469		100%
1894	484	0.001429035	484		100%
1895	520	0.001481397	515	5	98%
1896	469	0.001311947	469		100%
1897	533	0.001536213	533		100%
1898	540	0.001415632	540		100%
1899	532	0.001568239	532		100%
1900	664	0.00147471	659	5	98%
1901	554	0.001602027	554		100%
1902	549	0.001419584	549		100%
1903	553	0.001450682	553		100%
1904	561	0.001390386	561		100%
1905	598	0.001410637	598		100%
1906	674	0.001573109	669	5	99%
1907	734	0.001577172	734		100%
1908	795	0.001626935	795		100%
1909	724	0.001416209	724		100%
1910	934	0.001581145	926	8	98%
1911	924	0.001434164	919	5	99%
1912	1268	0.00128332	1268		100%
1913	1403	0.00123383	1403		100%
1914	1794	0.001266641	1794		100%
1915	2316	0.001263898	2309	7	99%
1916	2355	0.001217421	2348	7	99%
1917	2490	0.001240812	2490		100%
1918	2511	0.001156551	2511		100%
1919	2380	0.001127831	2380		100%
1920	2432	0.001074849	2426	6	100%
1921	2619	0.001121865	2613	6	100%
1922	2551	0.001114385	2543	8	99%
1923	2627	0.001140943	2614	13	99%
1924	3032	0.001273088	3021	11	99%
1925	3528	0.00151202	3515	13	99%
1926	4422	0.001926038	4407	15	99%
1927	5152	0.002221304	5129	23	99%
1928	5348	0.00236539	5331	17	99%
1929	5085	0.002319629	5068	17	99%
1930	4801	0.002159414	4783	18	99%
1931	4055	0.001926926	4034	21	99%
1932	3836	0.001816898	3813	23	99%
1933	3281	0.001640954	3266	15	99%
1934	3213	0.00154708	3192	21	99%
1935	2879	0.001377578	2863	16	99%
1936	2768	0.001332321	2758	10	99%
1937	2712	0.001272839	2702	10	99%
1938	2780	0.001256455	2763	17	99%
1939	2620	0.001189049	2611	9	99%
1940	2457	0.001067015	2441	16	99%
1941	2685	0.001102024	2675	10	99%
1942	2804	0.001026423	2799	5	100%
1943	2938	0.001040899	2929	9	99%
1944	2824	0.001049783	2817	7	100%
1945	2903	0.00109427	2896	7	100%
1946	3700	0.001157948	3684	16	99%
1947	4402	0.00122199	4390	12	99%
1948	5568	0.001612736	5556	12	100%
1949	5614	0.001611007	5603	11	100%
1950	5635	0.001608457	5628	7	100%
1951	6202	0.001683615	6190	12	100%
1952	6821	0.001795943	6809	12	100%
1953	7728	0.002005375	7715	13	100%
1954	8523	0.002141076	8509	14	100%
1955	9639	0.002400699	9619	20	100%
1956	10863	0.002634708	10841	22	100%
1957	11213	0.0026684	11188	25	100%
1958	11477	0.00277631	11451	26	100%
1959	11685	0.002810251	11655	30	99%
1960	11884	0.002860985	11848	36	99%
1961	11990	0.002894527	11959	31	99%
1962	11091	0.002748446	11058	33	99%
1963	11082	0.002799758	11041	41	99%
1964	10583	0.002722242	10557	26	100%
1965	9706	0.002677186	9684	22	100%
1966	8730	0.002511757	8700	30	99%
1967	8135	0.002396244	8104	31	99%
1968	7326	0.002168474	7307	19	99%
1969	6882	0.001980248	6857	25	99%
1970	6439	0.001785381	6412	27	99%
1971	5473	0.001594532	5446	27	99%
1972	4593	0.001461345	4569	24	99%
1973	4189	0.001388517	4179	10	100%
1974	3867	0.00127204	3856	11	99%
1975	3631	0.001202559	3611	20	99%
1976	3187	0.001050325	3174	13	99%
1977	2928	0.000921771	2914	14	99%
1978	2940	0.000926314	2922	18	99%
1979	3005	0.000903216	2995	10	99%
1980	2938	0.000852952	2926	12	99%
1981	2956	0.00085449	2943	13	99%
1982	2763	0.000787637	2753	10	99%
1983	2427	0.000700769	2416	11	99%
1984	2321	0.00066528	2307	14	99%
1985	2144	0.00060071	2123	21	98%
1986	1987	0.000558605	1979	8	99%
1987	1748	0.0004848	1739	9	99%
1988	1666	0.000450874	1658	8	99%
1989	1558	0.00040526	1546	12	98%
1990	1509	0.000381786	1499	10	99%
1991	1465	0.000376098	1460	5	99%
1992	1238	0.000322289	1238		100%
1993	1159	0.000307404	1159		100%
1994	1063	0.000285933	1063		100%
1995	948	0.000258864	948		100%
1996	883	0.000242104	883		100%
1997	853	0.000235262	853		100%
1998	787	0.000213963	787		100%
1999	701	0.000189774	701		100%
2000	679	0.000179634	679		100%
2001	602	0.000160817	602		100%
2002	532	0.000142311	532		100%
2003	494	0.000129921	494		100%
2004	410	0.000107304	410		100%
2005	439	0.000114179	439		100%
2006	395	0.000099844	395		100%
2007	379	0.000094805	379		100%
2008	342	0.000087008	342		100%
2009	282	0.000073819	282		100%
2010	282	0.000076304	282		100%
2011	213	0.000058232	213		100%
2012	232	0.000063434	232		100%
2013	198	0.000054311	198		100%
2014	225	0.000060706	225		100%
2015	210	0.000056743	210		100%
2016	209	0.000056968	209		100%
2017	219	0.000061238	219		100%
2018	224	0.000063711	224		100%
2019	184	0.000053012	184		100%
2020	156	0.000046699	156		100%
2021	150	0.000044275	150		100%
2022	148	0.000043746	148		100%
2023	122	0.000036845	122		100%
2024	145	0.000043563	145		100%

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