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How popular is “Tobin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tobin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tobin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tobin” 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
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 -100%
1951 18 0.000004886 18 -100%
1952 15 0.000003949 15 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 26 0.000006532 26 -100%
1955 21 0.00000523 21 -100%
1956 25 0.000006063 25 -100%
1957 39 0.000009281 39 -100%
1958 85 0.000020562 85 -100%
1959 55 0.000013228 55 -100%
1960 89 0.000021426 6 83 -87%
1961 51 0.000012312 51 -100%
1962 45 0.000011151 45 -100%
1963 57 0.0000144 57 -100%
1964 71 0.000018263 71 -100%
1965 44 0.000012136 44 -100%
1966 64 0.000018414 64 -100%
1967 58 0.000017084 58 -100%
1968 81 0.000023976 81 -100%
1969 113 0.000032515 113 -100%
1970 122 0.000033828 122 -100%
1971 132 0.000038458 132 -100%
1972 90 0.000028635 90 -100%
1973 124 0.000041102 6 118 -90%
1974 114 0.0000375 114 -100%
1975 132 0.000043717 5 127 -92%
1976 102 0.000033616 102 -100%
1977 107 0.000033685 107 -100%
1978 98 0.000030877 98 -100%
1979 64 0.000019237 64 -100%
1980 46 0.000013355 46 -100%
1981 43 0.00001243 43 -100%
1982 47 0.000013398 47 -100%
1983 46 0.000013282 46 -100%
1984 37 0.000010606 37 -100%
1985 38 0.000010647 38 -100%
1986 52 0.000014619 52 -100%
1987 49 0.00001359 5 44 -80%
1988 49 0.000013261 5 44 -80%
1989 57 0.000014827 57 -100%
1990 37 0.000009361 37 -100%
1991 45 0.000011552 45 -100%
1992 38 0.000009893 38 -100%
1993 40 0.000010609 40 -100%
1994 36 0.000009684 36 -100%
1995 33 0.000009011 33 -100%
1996 39 0.000010693 39 -100%
1997 73 0.000020134 73 -100%
1998 44 0.000011962 44 -100%
1999 46 0.000012453 46 -100%
2000 63 0.000016667 63 -100%
2001 68 0.000018165 68 -100%
2002 83 0.000022203 5 78 -88%
2003 107 0.000028141 9 98 -83%
2004 82 0.000021461 82 -100%
2005 110 0.00002861 110 -100%
2006 107 0.000027046 107 -100%
2007 148 0.000037021 148 -100%
2008 139 0.000035363 139 -100%
2009 113 0.00002958 113 -100%
2010 150 0.000040587 150 -100%
2011 135 0.000036908 135 -100%
2012 146 0.000039919 7 139 -90%
2013 163 0.000044711 163 -100%
2014 154 0.00004155 154 -100%
2015 144 0.000038909 14 130 -81%
2016 139 0.000037888 21 118 -70%
2017 96 0.000026844 12 84 -75%
2018 90 0.000025598 6 84 -87%
2019 91 0.000026218 12 79 -74%
2020 98 0.000029336 11 87 -78%
2021 97 0.000028631 18 79 -63%
2022 74 0.000021873 13 61 -65%
2023 57 0.000017214 6 51 -79%
2024 52 0.000015623 6 46 -77%

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