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How popular is “Torben” in the USA?

Number of people named “Torben” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Torben” by birth year

This chart shows how “Torben” 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
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 -100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 -100%
2014 16 0.000004317 16 -100%
2015 19 0.000005134 19 -100%
2016 12 0.000003271 12 -100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 -100%
2018 23 0.000006542 23 -100%
2019 31 0.000008931 31 -100%
2020 28 0.000008382 28 -100%
2021 30 0.000008855 30 -100%
2022 33 0.000009754 33 -100%
2023 25 0.00000755 25 -100%
2024 23 0.00000691 23 -100%

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