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How popular is “Troy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Troy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Troy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Troy” 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 8 0.000039705 8 -100%
1881 6 0.000031138 6 -100%
1882 16 0.000072224 16 -100%
1883 13 0.000059923 13 -100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 -100%
1885 18 0.000074734 18 -100%
1886 19 0.000074418 19 -100%
1887 12 0.000048506 12 -100%
1888 20 0.000066784 20 -100%
1889 16 0.000055374 16 -100%
1890 16 0.000053085 16 -100%
1891 23 0.000080231 23 -100%
1892 29 0.000086729 29 -100%
1893 25 0.00007687 25 -100%
1894 50 0.000147628 50 -100%
1895 29 0.000082616 29 -100%
1896 37 0.000103501 5 32 -73%
1897 31 0.000089348 31 -100%
1898 36 0.000094375 36 -100%
1899 28 0.000082539 28 -100%
1900 69 0.000153245 69 -100%
1901 41 0.000118562 41 -100%
1902 65 0.000168075 6 59 -82%
1903 46 0.000120672 46 -100%
1904 74 0.000183402 5 69 -86%
1905 64 0.000150971 5 59 -84%
1906 54 0.000126035 54 -100%
1907 81 0.000174048 9 72 -78%
1908 94 0.000192367 7 87 -85%
1909 64 0.00012519 64 -100%
1910 95 0.000160823 5 90 -89%
1911 108 0.00016763 8 100 -85%
1912 210 0.000212537 8 202 -92%
1913 223 0.000196111 5 218 -96%
1914 315 0.000222404 8 307 -95%
1915 434 0.000236844 19 415 -91%
1916 455 0.000235213 13 442 -94%
1917 404 0.000201321 10 394 -95%
1918 471 0.00021694 17 454 -93%
1919 514 0.000243574 15 499 -94%
1920 540 0.000238659 21 519 -92%
1921 542 0.000232169 10 532 -96%
1922 513 0.0002241 11 502 -96%
1923 527 0.000228884 15 512 -94%
1924 573 0.000240594 14 559 -95%
1925 535 0.000229289 18 517 -93%
1926 540 0.000235201 18 522 -93%
1927 569 0.000245327 10 559 -96%
1928 578 0.000255646 16 562 -94%
1929 526 0.000239946 20 506 -92%
1930 553 0.000248731 20 533 -93%
1931 497 0.000236173 12 485 -95%
1932 557 0.00026382 17 540 -94%
1933 538 0.000269074 20 518 -93%
1934 547 0.000263384 7 540 -97%
1935 557 0.00026652 10 547 -96%
1936 542 0.000260881 8 534 -97%
1937 556 0.000260951 15 541 -95%
1938 556 0.000251291 10 546 -96%
1939 606 0.000275024 20 586 -93%
1940 589 0.000255788 12 577 -96%
1941 576 0.000236412 7 569 -98%
1942 586 0.000214509 12 574 -96%
1943 643 0.000227807 11 632 -97%
1944 650 0.000241629 19 631 -94%
1945 630 0.000237475 16 614 -95%
1946 655 0.000204988 19 636 -94%
1947 681 0.000189045 12 669 -96%
1948 664 0.000192323 11 653 -97%
1949 636 0.000182508 16 620 -95%
1950 654 0.000186678 17 637 -95%
1951 643 0.000174551 18 625 -94%
1952 678 0.000178515 7 671 -98%
1953 706 0.000183203 20 686 -94%
1954 719 0.000180621 22 697 -94%
1955 694 0.000172848 23 671 -93%
1956 734 0.000178024 29 705 -92%
1957 812 0.000193235 34 778 -92%
1958 807 0.000195215 42 765 -90%
1959 1013 0.000243627 50 963 -90%
1960 2132 0.000513263 77 2055 -93%
1961 4379 0.001057142 119 4260 -95%
1962 6146 0.001523032 99 6047 -97%
1963 6072 0.001534031 102 5970 -97%
1964 6384 0.001642142 77 6307 -98%
1965 5915 0.001631522 58 5857 -98%
1966 6971 0.002005665 66 6905 -98%
1967 8009 0.002359129 76 7933 -98%
1968 8050 0.002382776 73 7977 -98%
1969 8173 0.002351724 74 8099 -98%
1970 8545 0.002369324 97 8448 -98%
1971 7401 0.002156246 63 7338 -98%
1972 6401 0.002036593 54 6347 -98%
1973 5109 0.001693467 44 5065 -98%
1974 4598 0.0015125 34 4564 -99%
1975 3991 0.001321788 40 3951 -98%
1976 3752 0.001236529 37 3715 -98%
1977 3337 0.001050529 31 3306 -98%
1978 3179 0.001001616 26 3153 -98%
1979 2983 0.000896604 21 2962 -99%
1980 2879 0.000835824 47 2832 -97%
1981 2530 0.000731346 18 2512 -99%
1982 2558 0.000729198 24 2534 -98%
1983 2420 0.000698748 13 2407 -99%
1984 2433 0.000697383 22 2411 -98%
1985 2338 0.000655065 22 2316 -98%
1986 2277 0.000640132 28 2249 -98%
1987 2314 0.000641777 20 2294 -98%
1988 2368 0.000640859 24 2344 -98%
1989 2649 0.000689046 13 2636 -99%
1990 2515 0.00063631 10 2505 -99%
1991 2356 0.000604837 20 2336 -98%
1992 2298 0.000598239 10 2288 -99%
1993 2678 0.000710292 30 2648 -98%
1994 2862 0.000769841 19 2843 -99%
1995 2495 0.000681293 25 2470 -98%
1996 2259 0.00061938 20 2239 -98%
1997 2010 0.000554368 12 1998 -99%
1998 1832 0.000498069 11 1821 -99%
1999 1686 0.000456432 14 1672 -98%
2000 1525 0.000403449 11 1514 -99%
2001 1364 0.000364376 8 1356 -99%
2002 1310 0.000350427 9 1301 -99%
2003 1284 0.000337689 1284 -100%
2004 1515 0.000396501 13 1502 -98%
2005 1530 0.000397935 5 1525 -99%
2006 1592 0.000402407 9 1583 -99%
2007 1615 0.000403984 12 1603 -99%
2008 1602 0.000407565 5 1597 -99%
2009 1493 0.00039082 5 1488 -99%
2010 1392 0.00037665 8 1384 -99%
2011 1466 0.000400788 5 1461 -99%
2012 1400 0.000382789 7 1393 -99%
2013 1287 0.000353022 1287 -100%
2014 1334 0.00035992 7 1327 -99%
2015 1211 0.000327217 8 1203 -99%
2016 1112 0.000303105 6 1106 -99%
2017 957 0.000267603 6 951 -99%
2018 917 0.000260815 5 912 -99%
2019 813 0.000234231 8 805 -98%
2020 728 0.000217926 11 717 -97%
2021 744 0.000219602 7 737 -98%
2022 657 0.000194199 7 650 -98%
2023 672 0.000202948 8 664 -98%
2024 560 0.000168244 560 -100%

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