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How popular is “Trudy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Trudy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Trudy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Trudy” 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
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 100%
1910 16 0.000027086 16 100%
1911 17 0.000026386 17 100%
1912 18 0.000018217 18 100%
1913 16 0.000014071 16 100%
1914 19 0.000013415 19 100%
1915 23 0.000012552 23 100%
1916 22 0.000011373 22 100%
1917 26 0.000012956 26 100%
1918 35 0.000016121 35 100%
1919 38 0.000018007 38 100%
1920 29 0.000012817 29 100%
1921 26 0.000011137 26 100%
1922 34 0.000014853 34 100%
1923 29 0.000012595 29 100%
1924 40 0.000016795 40 100%
1925 31 0.000013286 31 100%
1926 48 0.000020907 48 100%
1927 47 0.000020264 47 100%
1928 41 0.000018134 41 100%
1929 42 0.000019159 42 100%
1930 56 0.000025188 56 100%
1931 52 0.00002471 52 100%
1932 44 0.00002084 44 100%
1933 50 0.000025007 50 100%
1934 58 0.000027927 58 100%
1935 77 0.000036844 77 100%
1936 80 0.000038506 80 100%
1937 91 0.00004271 91 100%
1938 121 0.000054687 121 100%
1939 127 0.000057637 127 100%
1940 164 0.000071221 164 100%
1941 226 0.000092759 226 100%
1942 267 0.000097737 267 100%
1943 505 0.000178916 505 100%
1944 652 0.000242372 652 100%
1945 728 0.000274416 728 100%
1946 896 0.000280411 891 5 99%
1947 975 0.000270659 975 100%
1948 883 0.000255755 883 100%
1949 905 0.000259701 905 100%
1950 936 0.000267172 936 100%
1951 923 0.000250561 923 100%
1952 925 0.000243549 925 100%
1953 828 0.000214862 828 100%
1954 770 0.000193433 770 100%
1955 859 0.000213943 859 100%
1956 740 0.000179479 740 100%
1957 773 0.000183954 773 100%
1958 831 0.000201021 831 100%
1959 763 0.000183502 763 100%
1960 718 0.000172853 718 100%
1961 682 0.000164643 682 100%
1962 717 0.000177679 717 100%
1963 852 0.000215249 852 100%
1964 672 0.000172857 672 100%
1965 584 0.000161084 584 100%
1966 521 0.0001499 521 100%
1967 426 0.000125482 426 100%
1968 404 0.000119583 404 100%
1969 347 0.000099847 347 100%
1970 353 0.000097878 353 100%
1971 277 0.000080703 277 100%
1972 272 0.000086542 272 100%
1973 271 0.000089828 271 100%
1974 211 0.000069408 211 100%
1975 179 0.000059283 179 100%
1976 207 0.00006822 207 100%
1977 158 0.00004974 158 100%
1978 144 0.00004537 144 100%
1979 128 0.000038473 128 100%
1980 115 0.000033386 115 100%
1981 117 0.000033821 117 100%
1982 86 0.000024516 86 100%
1983 66 0.000019057 66 100%
1984 72 0.000020638 72 100%
1985 38 0.000010647 38 100%
1986 40 0.000011245 40 100%
1987 43 0.000011926 43 100%
1988 46 0.000012449 46 100%
1989 41 0.000010665 41 100%
1990 35 0.000008855 35 100%
1991 39 0.000010012 39 100%
1992 33 0.000008591 33 100%
1993 33 0.000008753 33 100%
1994 25 0.000006725 25 100%
1995 31 0.000008465 31 100%
1996 25 0.000006855 25 100%
1997 22 0.000006068 22 100%
1998 22 0.000005981 22 100%
1999 25 0.000006768 25 100%
2000 25 0.000006614 25 100%
2001 20 0.000005343 20 100%
2002 19 0.000005083 19 100%
2003 21 0.000005523 21 100%
2004 19 0.000004973 19 100%
2005 22 0.000005722 22 100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 100%
2007 16 0.000004002 16 100%
2008 29 0.000007378 29 100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 100%
2010 19 0.000005141 19 100%
2011 19 0.000005194 19 100%
2012 26 0.000007109 26 100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 100%
2014 18 0.000004856 18 100%
2015 23 0.000006215 23 100%
2016 25 0.000006814 25 100%
2017 17 0.000004754 17 100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 100%
2019 23 0.000006626 23 100%
2020 20 0.000005987 20 100%
2021 30 0.000008855 30 100%
2022 26 0.000007685 26 100%
2023 24 0.000007248 24 100%
2024 29 0.000008713 29 100%

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