Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Vir” in the USA?

Number of people named “Vir” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Vir” by birth year

This chart shows how “Vir” 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
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2005 18 0.000004682 18 -100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 -100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 -100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 -100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 -100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 -100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 -100%
2012 18 0.000004922 18 -100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 -100%
2014 22 0.000005936 22 -100%
2015 22 0.000005944 22 -100%
2016 22 0.000005997 22 -100%
2017 19 0.000005313 19 -100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 -100%
2019 32 0.000009219 32 -100%
2020 32 0.000009579 32 -100%
2021 18 0.000005313 18 -100%
2022 33 0.000009754 33 -100%
2023 28 0.000008456 28 -100%
2024 20 0.000006009 20 -100%

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