How popular is “Therese” in the USA?

Number of people named “Therese” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Therese” by birth year

This chart shows how “Therese” 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	11	0.000054595	11		100%
1881	6	0.000031138	6		100%
1882	6	0.000027084	6		100%
1883	5	0.000023047	5		100%
1884	12	0.000049289	12		100%
1885	13	0.000053975	13		100%
1886	15	0.000058751	15		100%
1887	9	0.00003638	9		100%
1888	14	0.000046749	14		100%
1889	11	0.000038069	11		100%
1890	13	0.000043132	13		100%
1891	23	0.000080231	23		100%
1892	12	0.000035888	12		100%
1893	20	0.000061496	20		100%
1894	17	0.000050193	17		100%
1895	33	0.000094012	33		100%
1896	16	0.000044757	16		100%
1897	26	0.000074937	26		100%
1898	22	0.000057674	22		100%
1899	22	0.000064852	22		100%
1900	26	0.000057745	26		100%
1901	8	0.000023134	8		100%
1902	22	0.000056887	22		100%
1903	30	0.000078699	30		100%
1904	37	0.000091701	37		100%
1905	28	0.00006605	28		100%
1906	30	0.00007002	30		100%
1907	39	0.000083801	39		100%
1908	30	0.000061394	30		100%
1909	32	0.000062595	32		100%
1910	45	0.000076179	45		100%
1911	37	0.000057429	37		100%
1912	52	0.000052628	52		100%
1913	74	0.000065077	74		100%
1914	100	0.000070604	100		100%
1915	115	0.000062758	115		100%
1916	117	0.000060483	117		100%
1917	111	0.000055313	111		100%
1918	129	0.000059417	129		100%
1919	119	0.000056392	119		100%
1920	123	0.000054361	123		100%
1921	145	0.000062112	145		100%
1922	145	0.000063342	145		100%
1923	204	0.0000886	204		100%
1924	289	0.000121346	289		100%
1925	533	0.000228432	533		100%
1926	781	0.000340171	781		100%
1927	841	0.0003626	841		100%
1928	776	0.00034322	776		100%
1929	664	0.000302897	664		100%
1930	576	0.000259076	576		100%
1931	456	0.00021669	451	5	98%
1932	398	0.00018851	398		100%
1933	306	0.000153042	306		100%
1934	262	0.000126155	262		100%
1935	296	0.000141634	296		100%
1936	259	0.000124664	259		100%
1937	229	0.000107478	229		100%
1938	238	0.000107567	238		100%
1939	212	0.000096213	212		100%
1940	217	0.000094238	217		100%
1941	213	0.000087423	213		100%
1942	249	0.000091148	249		100%
1943	233	0.000082549	233		100%
1944	246	0.000091447	246		100%
1945	273	0.000102906	273		100%
1946	354	0.000110787	354		100%
1947	410	0.000113815	410		100%
1948	476	0.00013787	476		100%
1949	494	0.000141759	494		100%
1950	555	0.000158419	555		100%
1951	607	0.000164778	607		100%
1952	826	0.000217483	826		100%
1953	828	0.000214862	828		100%
1954	889	0.000223327	889		100%
1955	1078	0.000268488	1078		100%
1956	1069	0.000259275	1069		100%
1957	1131	0.000269148	1131		100%
1958	1139	0.000275526	1139		100%
1959	1211	0.000291246	1211		100%
1960	1197	0.000288169	1197		100%
1961	1079	0.000260483	1079		100%
1962	1019	0.000252517	1019		100%
1963	970	0.000245061	970		100%
1964	853	0.000219415	853		100%
1965	721	0.000198872	721		100%
1966	557	0.000160258	557		100%
1967	442	0.000130195	442		100%
1968	408	0.000120767	408		100%
1969	337	0.000096969	337		100%
1970	304	0.000084292	304		100%
1971	238	0.00006934	238		100%
1972	174	0.000055361	174		100%
1973	227	0.000075243	227		100%
1974	188	0.000061842	188		100%
1975	174	0.000057627	174		100%
1976	175	0.000057674	175		100%
1977	154	0.000048481	154		100%
1978	142	0.00004474	142		100%
1979	168	0.000050496	168		100%
1980	154	0.000044709	154		100%
1981	163	0.000047118	163		100%
1982	164	0.000046751	164		100%
1983	155	0.000044754	155		100%
1984	153	0.000043855	153		100%
1985	151	0.000042307	151		100%
1986	116	0.000032611	116		100%
1987	133	0.000036887	133		100%
1988	106	0.000028687	106		100%
1989	135	0.000035116	135		100%
1990	116	0.000029349	116		100%
1991	113	0.00002901	113		100%
1992	121	0.0000315	121		100%
1993	113	0.000029971	113		100%
1994	107	0.000028782	107		100%
1995	108	0.000029491	108		100%
1996	78	0.000021386	78		100%
1997	98	0.000027029	98		100%
1998	95	0.000025828	95		100%
1999	103	0.000027884	103		100%
2000	92	0.000024339	92		100%
2001	118	0.000031522	118		100%
2002	96	0.00002568	96		100%
2003	71	0.000018673	71		100%
2004	79	0.000020676	79		100%
2005	91	0.000023668	91		100%
2006	73	0.000018452	73		100%
2007	71	0.00001776	71		100%
2008	79	0.000020098	79		100%
2009	76	0.000019894	76		100%
2010	70	0.000018941	70		100%
2011	47	0.000012849	47		100%
2012	51	0.000013944	51		100%
2013	49	0.000013441	49		100%
2014	73	0.000019696	73		100%
2015	63	0.000017023	63		100%
2016	79	0.000021534	79		100%
2017	63	0.000017616	63		100%
2018	68	0.000019341	68		100%
2019	45	0.000012965	45		100%
2020	54	0.000016165	54		100%
2021	53	0.000015644	53		100%
2022	68	0.0000201	68		100%
2023	71	0.000021442	71		100%
2024	85	0.000025537	85		100%

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