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How popular is “Velvet” in the USA?

Number of people named “Velvet” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Velvet” by birth year

This chart shows how “Velvet” 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
1920 6 0.000002652 6 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1945 36 0.00001357 36 100%
1946 33 0.000010328 33 100%
1947 16 0.000004442 16 100%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 100%
1950 18 0.000005138 18 100%
1951 22 0.000005972 22 100%
1952 18 0.000004739 18 100%
1953 19 0.00000493 19 100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 100%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 19 0.00000457 19 100%
1960 73 0.000017574 73 100%
1961 332 0.000080149 332 100%
1962 261 0.000064678 261 100%
1963 143 0.000036128 143 100%
1964 117 0.000030096 117 100%
1965 85 0.000023445 85 100%
1966 86 0.000024744 86 100%
1967 63 0.000018557 63 100%
1968 42 0.000012432 42 100%
1969 55 0.000015826 55 100%
1970 63 0.000017468 63 100%
1971 85 0.000024764 85 100%
1972 93 0.00002959 93 100%
1973 65 0.000021545 65 100%
1974 71 0.000023355 71 100%
1975 71 0.000023515 71 100%
1976 41 0.000013512 41 100%
1977 47 0.000014796 47 100%
1978 57 0.000017959 57 100%
1979 69 0.000020739 69 100%
1980 48 0.000013935 48 100%
1981 45 0.000013008 45 100%
1982 62 0.000017674 62 100%
1983 46 0.000013282 46 100%
1984 45 0.000012899 45 100%
1985 37 0.000010367 37 100%
1986 32 0.000008996 32 100%
1987 33 0.000009152 33 100%
1988 34 0.000009202 34 100%
1989 19 0.000004942 19 100%
1990 31 0.000007843 31 100%
1991 22 0.000005648 22 100%
1992 21 0.000005467 21 100%
1993 21 0.00000557 21 100%
1994 18 0.000004842 18 100%
1995 22 0.000006007 22 100%
1996 19 0.000005209 19 100%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 100%
1998 20 0.000005437 20 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2013 7 0.00000192 7 100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 100%
2016 8 0.000002181 8 100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 100%
2022 16 0.000004729 16 100%
2023 12 0.000003624 12 100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 100%

Explore other names

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  2. Velta
  3. Velton
  4. Velva
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  8. Velvetta
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  10. Velvia
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