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How popular is “Valerian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Valerian” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Valerian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Valerian” 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
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 8 0.000004366 8 -100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 -100%
1917 13 0.000006478 6 7 -8%
1918 19 0.000008751 19 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 10 0.00000442 10 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 -100%
1925 15 0.000006429 15 -100%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 -100%
1928 11 0.000004865 11 -100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 -100%
1930 10 0.000004498 10 -100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1932 10 0.000004736 10 -100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 -100%
1934 15 0.000007223 15 -100%
1935 6 0.000002871 6 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 -100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 -100%
1940 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2018 24 0.000006826 24 -100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 14 0.000004191 14 -100%
2021 17 0.000005018 17 -100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 -100%
2023 13 0.000003926 13 -100%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 -100%

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