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How popular is “Velma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Velma” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Velma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Velma” 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
1880 16 0.000079411 16 100%
1881 19 0.000098605 19 100%
1882 17 0.000076738 17 100%
1883 25 0.000115236 25 100%
1884 18 0.000073934 18 100%
1885 32 0.000132861 32 100%
1886 33 0.000129252 33 100%
1887 59 0.000238488 59 100%
1888 67 0.000223726 67 100%
1889 72 0.000249181 72 100%
1890 96 0.000318513 96 100%
1891 103 0.000359294 103 100%
1892 146 0.000436637 146 100%
1893 156 0.000479671 156 100%
1894 196 0.0005787 196 100%
1895 208 0.000592559 208 100%
1896 249 0.000696535 249 100%
1897 280 0.000807016 280 100%
1898 331 0.00086773 331 100%
1899 334 0.000984571 334 100%
1900 426 0.000946124 426 100%
1901 393 0.001136456 388 5 97%
1902 526 0.001360112 526 100%
1903 589 0.001545121 589 100%
1904 621 0.001539091 615 6 98%
1905 722 0.001703143 722 100%
1906 721 0.001682806 721 100%
1907 860 0.001847913 854 6 99%
1908 866 0.001772233 860 6 99%
1909 865 0.001692018 857 8 98%
1910 1043 0.001765669 1035 8 98%
1911 1053 0.001634388 1045 8 98%
1912 1408 0.001425012 1403 5 99%
1913 1570 0.001380693 1556 14 98%
1914 1803 0.001272996 1795 8 99%
1915 2299 0.001254621 2287 12 99%
1916 2330 0.001204497 2319 11 99%
1917 2422 0.001206927 2411 11 99%
1918 2452 0.001129376 2439 13 99%
1919 2363 0.001119775 2341 22 98%
1920 2509 0.00110888 2491 18 99%
1921 2613 0.001119295 2606 7 99%
1922 2377 0.001038374 2367 10 99%
1923 2349 0.001020204 2337 12 99%
1924 2292 0.000962374 2272 20 98%
1925 2199 0.000942441 2177 22 98%
1926 2138 0.000931223 2120 18 98%
1927 2296 0.000989929 2285 11 99%
1928 2303 0.001018604 2290 13 99%
1929 1944 0.000886796 1930 14 99%
1930 1933 0.000869433 1918 15 98%
1931 1768 0.000840149 1758 10 99%
1932 1712 0.000810878 1689 23 97%
1933 1489 0.000744706 1481 8 99%
1934 1435 0.000690962 1426 9 99%
1935 1365 0.000653141 1352 13 98%
1936 1191 0.000573264 1180 11 98%
1937 1223 0.000573998 1218 5 99%
1938 1170 0.000528796 1160 10 98%
1939 1073 0.000486965 1068 5 99%
1940 994 0.00043167 986 8 98%
1941 1001 0.000410848 1001 100%
1942 1052 0.000385092 1052 100%
1943 1045 0.000370231 1045 100%
1944 946 0.000351663 935 11 98%
1945 868 0.000327188 861 7 98%
1946 881 0.000275717 875 6 99%
1947 848 0.000235404 848 100%
1948 871 0.00025228 871 100%
1949 804 0.000230718 798 6 99%
1950 825 0.000235488 825 100%
1951 798 0.000216628 798 100%
1952 706 0.000185887 706 100%
1953 737 0.000191248 737 100%
1954 754 0.000189414 749 5 99%
1955 644 0.000160395 634 10 97%
1956 692 0.000167837 692 100%
1957 668 0.000158967 668 100%
1958 502 0.000121435 502 100%
1959 550 0.000132275 550 100%
1960 559 0.000134575 559 100%
1961 524 0.0001265 524 100%
1962 464 0.000114983 464 100%
1963 407 0.000102825 407 100%
1964 395 0.000101605 395 100%
1965 362 0.00009985 362 100%
1966 299 0.000086027 299 100%
1967 273 0.000080415 273 100%
1968 222 0.000065711 222 100%
1969 191 0.000054959 191 100%
1970 181 0.000050187 181 100%
1971 167 0.000048655 167 100%
1972 120 0.00003818 120 100%
1973 131 0.000043422 131 100%
1974 109 0.000035855 109 100%
1975 94 0.000031132 94 100%
1976 95 0.000031309 95 100%
1977 76 0.000023926 76 100%
1978 83 0.000026151 83 100%
1979 78 0.000023445 78 100%
1980 78 0.000022645 78 100%
1981 83 0.000023993 83 100%
1982 58 0.000016534 58 100%
1983 55 0.000015881 55 100%
1984 50 0.000014332 50 100%
1985 35 0.000009806 35 100%
1986 43 0.000012089 43 100%
1987 41 0.000011371 41 100%
1988 37 0.000010013 37 100%
1989 32 0.000008324 32 100%
1990 33 0.000008349 33 100%
1991 40 0.000010269 40 100%
1992 15 0.000003905 15 100%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 100%
1994 19 0.000005111 19 100%
1995 13 0.00000355 13 100%
1996 12 0.00000329 12 100%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1998 16 0.00000435 16 100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 100%
2002 14 0.000003745 14 100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 100%
2004 14 0.000003664 14 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 100%
2011 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 100%
2014 13 0.000003507 13 100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 100%
2020 15 0.00000449 15 100%
2021 15 0.000004427 15 100%
2022 25 0.00000739 25 100%
2023 22 0.000006644 22 100%
2024 13 0.000003906 13 100%

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