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How popular is “Tyson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tyson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tyson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tyson” 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
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1913 9 0.000007915 9 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 -100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 -100%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1930 11 0.000004948 11 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 -100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 -100%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 -100%
1947 21 0.00000583 21 -100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1949 19 0.000005452 19 -100%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 -100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 -100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 -100%
1953 16 0.000004152 16 -100%
1954 19 0.000004773 19 -100%
1955 23 0.000005728 23 -100%
1956 20 0.000004851 20 -100%
1957 21 0.000004997 21 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 20 0.00000481 20 -100%
1960 32 0.000007704 32 -100%
1961 24 0.000005794 24 -100%
1962 44 0.000010904 44 -100%
1963 43 0.000010864 43 -100%
1964 45 0.000011575 45 -100%
1965 46 0.000012688 46 -100%
1966 58 0.000016688 58 -100%
1967 77 0.000022681 77 -100%
1968 84 0.000024864 84 -100%
1969 107 0.000030789 107 -100%
1970 175 0.000048523 175 -100%
1971 241 0.000070214 241 -100%
1972 268 0.000085269 268 -100%
1973 445 0.000147503 5 440 -98%
1974 602 0.000198026 16 586 -95%
1975 655 0.000216931 17 638 -95%
1976 693 0.000228389 13 680 -96%
1977 769 0.000242091 14 755 -96%
1978 829 0.000261195 14 815 -97%
1979 819 0.000246168 17 802 -96%
1980 929 0.000269705 16 913 -97%
1981 922 0.000266522 14 908 -97%
1982 875 0.000249433 14 861 -97%
1983 843 0.000243407 12 831 -97%
1984 935 0.000268004 10 925 -98%
1985 944 0.000264492 10 934 -98%
1986 973 0.000273539 13 960 -97%
1987 941 0.000260982 7 934 -99%
1988 951 0.000257372 14 937 -97%
1989 669 0.000174017 669 -100%
1990 569 0.00014396 569 -100%
1991 469 0.000120403 5 464 -98%
1992 366 0.000095281 366 -100%
1993 419 0.000111132 419 -100%
1994 404 0.000108671 404 -100%
1995 470 0.00012834 5 465 -98%
1996 505 0.000138463 505 -100%
1997 563 0.000155278 7 556 -98%
1998 660 0.000179435 6 654 -98%
1999 744 0.000201415 8 736 -98%
2000 828 0.000219053 10 818 -98%
2001 840 0.000224396 7 833 -98%
2002 932 0.000249312 932 -100%
2003 1039 0.000273254 1039 -100%
2004 1133 0.000296525 17 1116 -97%
2005 1238 0.00032199 1238 -100%
2006 1247 0.000315202 1247 -100%
2007 1270 0.000317684 1270 -100%
2008 1406 0.0003577 6 1400 -99%
2009 1491 0.000390296 1491 -100%
2010 1478 0.00039992 6 1472 -99%
2011 1389 0.000379737 5 1384 -99%
2012 1358 0.000371305 5 1353 -99%
2013 1331 0.000365091 10 1321 -98%
2014 1282 0.00034589 5 1277 -99%
2015 1131 0.0003056 1131 -100%
2016 1046 0.000285115 1046 -100%
2017 1064 0.000297523 1064 -100%
2018 929 0.000264228 5 924 -99%
2019 937 0.000269956 937 -100%
2020 840 0.000251454 840 -100%
2021 930 0.000274502 5 925 -99%
2022 814 0.000240605 814 -100%
2023 809 0.000244323 809 -100%
2024 679 0.000203996 679 -100%

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