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How popular is “Vaughn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Vaughn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Vaughn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Vaughn” 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
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1899 7 0.000020635 7 -100%
1900 12 0.000026651 12 -100%
1901 15 0.000043376 7 8 -7%
1902 13 0.000033615 13 -100%
1903 14 0.000036726 14 -100%
1904 17 0.000042133 17 -100%
1905 16 0.000037743 16 -100%
1906 20 0.00004668 20 -100%
1907 14 0.000030082 14 -100%
1908 18 0.000036836 6 12 -33%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 17 0.000028779 17 -100%
1911 33 0.00005122 5 28 -70%
1912 54 0.000054652 54 -100%
1913 72 0.000063318 5 67 -86%
1914 92 0.000064956 7 85 -85%
1915 124 0.00006767 5 119 -92%
1916 139 0.000071856 17 122 -76%
1917 127 0.000063286 8 119 -87%
1918 141 0.000064944 141 -100%
1919 109 0.000051653 10 99 -82%
1920 133 0.000058781 11 122 -83%
1921 147 0.000062968 14 133 -81%
1922 134 0.000058537 11 123 -84%
1923 137 0.000059501 7 130 -90%
1924 124 0.000052066 8 116 -87%
1925 140 0.000060001 140 -100%
1926 122 0.000053138 7 115 -89%
1927 130 0.00005605 9 121 -86%
1928 151 0.000066786 12 139 -84%
1929 130 0.000059302 7 123 -89%
1930 166 0.000074664 17 149 -80%
1931 159 0.000075556 27 132 -66%
1932 146 0.000069152 18 128 -75%
1933 121 0.000060517 18 103 -70%
1934 144 0.000069337 13 131 -82%
1935 150 0.000071774 9 141 -88%
1936 139 0.000066905 21 118 -70%
1937 129 0.000060544 22 107 -66%
1938 147 0.000066438 13 134 -82%
1939 140 0.000063537 20 120 -71%
1940 146 0.000063404 6 140 -92%
1941 141 0.000057872 10 131 -86%
1942 181 0.000066256 15 166 -83%
1943 214 0.000075818 11 203 -90%
1944 187 0.000069515 8 179 -91%
1945 195 0.000073504 11 184 -89%
1946 303 0.000094827 8 295 -95%
1947 364 0.000101046 10 354 -95%
1948 368 0.000106589 12 356 -93%
1949 385 0.000110481 11 374 -94%
1950 355 0.000101331 6 349 -97%
1951 303 0.000082253 6 297 -96%
1952 266 0.000070037 14 252 -89%
1953 246 0.000063836 7 239 -94%
1954 245 0.000061547 8 237 -93%
1955 233 0.000058031 16 217 -86%
1956 225 0.000054571 7 218 -94%
1957 206 0.000049023 8 198 -92%
1958 222 0.000053702 9 213 -92%
1959 224 0.000053872 12 212 -89%
1960 255 0.000061389 9 246 -93%
1961 223 0.000053835 9 214 -92%
1962 264 0.000065421 10 254 -92%
1963 267 0.000067455 267 -100%
1964 290 0.000074596 10 280 -93%
1965 294 0.000081093 5 289 -97%
1966 275 0.000079122 8 267 -94%
1967 258 0.000075996 9 249 -93%
1968 252 0.000074591 6 246 -95%
1969 245 0.000070497 9 236 -93%
1970 234 0.000064883 5 229 -96%
1971 217 0.000063222 8 209 -93%
1972 192 0.000061088 192 -100%
1973 156 0.000051709 156 -100%
1974 141 0.000046382 141 -100%
1975 148 0.000049016 148 -100%
1976 134 0.000044162 7 127 -90%
1977 141 0.000044389 5 136 -93%
1978 137 0.000043165 137 -100%
1979 131 0.000039375 131 -100%
1980 174 0.000050515 8 166 -91%
1981 145 0.000041915 5 140 -93%
1982 126 0.000035918 126 -100%
1983 124 0.000035804 124 -100%
1984 141 0.000040416 5 136 -93%
1985 130 0.000036424 130 -100%
1986 148 0.000041607 6 142 -92%
1987 181 0.000050199 181 -100%
1988 145 0.000039242 5 140 -93%
1989 168 0.000043699 168 -100%
1990 190 0.000048071 6 184 -94%
1991 193 0.000049547 12 181 -88%
1992 193 0.000050244 5 188 -95%
1993 183 0.000048538 9 174 -90%
1994 221 0.000059446 7 214 -94%
1995 143 0.000039048 143 -100%
1996 145 0.000039757 5 140 -93%
1997 156 0.000043026 7 149 -91%
1998 174 0.000047306 7 167 -92%
1999 168 0.000045481 6 162 -93%
2000 176 0.000046562 7 169 -92%
2001 169 0.000045146 8 161 -91%
2002 179 0.000047883 7 172 -92%
2003 231 0.000060752 12 219 -90%
2004 235 0.000061503 5 230 -96%
2005 254 0.000066062 254 -100%
2006 304 0.000076842 14 290 -91%
2007 316 0.000079046 10 306 -94%
2008 269 0.000068436 15 254 -89%
2009 284 0.000074342 14 270 -90%
2010 232 0.000062775 17 215 -85%
2011 234 0.000063973 8 226 -93%
2012 257 0.000070269 12 245 -91%
2013 268 0.000073512 21 247 -84%
2014 252 0.000067991 26 226 -79%
2015 265 0.000071604 14 251 -89%
2016 285 0.000077684 24 261 -83%
2017 236 0.000065992 20 216 -83%
2018 212 0.000060298 24 188 -77%
2019 213 0.000061367 22 191 -79%
2020 197 0.000058972 17 180 -83%
2021 207 0.000061099 24 183 -77%
2022 200 0.000059117 24 176 -76%
2023 181 0.000054663 17 164 -81%
2024 189 0.000056782 15 174 -84%

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