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How popular is “Vanesa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Vanesa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Vanesa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Vanesa” 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
1953 7 0.000001816 7 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1958 18 0.000004354 18 100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 100%
1960 13 0.00000313 13 100%
1961 17 0.000004104 17 100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 100%
1964 15 0.000003858 15 100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 16 0.000004436 16 100%
1971 26 0.000007575 26 100%
1972 16 0.000005091 16 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 100%
1975 25 0.00000828 25 100%
1976 29 0.000009557 29 100%
1977 48 0.000015111 48 100%
1978 34 0.000010712 34 100%
1979 51 0.000015329 51 100%
1980 56 0.000016258 56 100%
1981 67 0.000019368 67 100%
1982 82 0.000023375 82 100%
1983 116 0.000033494 116 100%
1984 129 0.000036976 129 100%
1985 125 0.000035023 120 5 92%
1986 120 0.000033736 120 100%
1987 119 0.000033004 119 100%
1988 119 0.000032205 119 100%
1989 136 0.000035376 136 100%
1990 151 0.000038204 151 100%
1991 166 0.000042616 166 100%
1992 151 0.00003931 151 100%
1993 164 0.000043498 164 100%
1994 209 0.000056218 209 100%
1995 183 0.000049971 183 100%
1996 237 0.000064981 237 100%
1997 246 0.000067848 246 100%
1998 225 0.000061171 225 100%
1999 213 0.000057663 213 100%
2000 197 0.000052118 197 100%
2001 217 0.000057969 217 100%
2002 271 0.000072493 271 100%
2003 240 0.000063119 240 100%
2004 220 0.000057578 220 100%
2005 209 0.000054358 209 100%
2006 220 0.000055609 220 100%
2007 236 0.000059034 236 100%
2008 231 0.000058769 231 100%
2009 174 0.000045548 174 100%
2010 118 0.000031929 118 100%
2011 108 0.000029526 108 100%
2012 133 0.000036365 133 100%
2013 84 0.000023041 84 100%
2014 68 0.000018347 68 100%
2015 54 0.000014591 54 100%
2016 42 0.000011448 42 100%
2017 41 0.000011465 41 100%
2018 30 0.000008533 30 100%
2019 32 0.000009219 32 100%
2020 22 0.000006586 22 100%
2021 23 0.000006789 23 100%
2022 26 0.000007685 26 100%
2023 24 0.000007248 24 100%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 100%

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