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How popular is “Vesper” in the USA?

Number of people named “Vesper” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Vesper” by birth year

This chart shows how “Vesper” 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
1902 5 0.000012929 5 100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1917 15 0.000007475 7 8 -7%
1918 14 0.000006448 7 7 0%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 100%
1920 16 0.000007071 10 6 25%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1924 11 0.000004619 6 5 9%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%
2009 30 0.000007853 30 100%
2010 24 0.000006494 24 100%
2011 35 0.000009569 35 100%
2012 30 0.000008203 30 100%
2013 35 0.0000096 35 100%
2014 53 0.0000143 53 100%
2015 45 0.000012159 45 100%
2016 55 0.000014992 55 100%
2017 70 0.000019574 70 100%
2018 45 0.000012799 45 100%
2019 38 0.000010948 38 100%
2020 42 0.000012573 42 100%
2021 51 0.000015053 51 100%
2022 71 0.000020986 65 6 83%
2023 89 0.000026879 82 7 84%
2024 73 0.000021932 61 12 67%

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