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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Vale” in the USA?

Number of people named “Vale” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Vale” by birth year

This chart shows how “Vale” 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
1917 10 0.000004983 5 5 0%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1925 8 0.000003429 8 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2014 21 0.000005666 12 9 14%
2015 55 0.000014861 44 11 60%
2016 55 0.000014992 49 6 78%
2017 41 0.000011465 33 8 61%
2018 40 0.000011377 32 8 60%
2019 44 0.000012677 33 11 50%
2020 47 0.000014069 33 14 40%
2021 29 0.00000856 19 10 31%
2022 38 0.000011232 27 11 42%
2023 21 0.000006342 12 9 14%
2024 27 0.000008112 17 10 26%

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