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How popular is “Vlad” in the USA?

Number of people named “Vlad” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Vlad” by birth year

This chart shows how “Vlad” 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
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 -100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 -100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 -100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 -100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 -100%
2002 19 0.000005083 19 -100%
2003 19 0.000004997 19 -100%
2004 26 0.000006805 26 -100%
2005 22 0.000005722 22 -100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 -100%
2007 20 0.000005003 20 -100%
2008 21 0.000005343 21 -100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 -100%
2010 24 0.000006494 24 -100%
2011 19 0.000005194 19 -100%
2012 24 0.000006562 24 -100%
2013 22 0.000006035 22 -100%
2014 25 0.000006745 25 -100%
2015 19 0.000005134 19 -100%
2016 26 0.000007087 26 -100%
2017 18 0.000005033 18 -100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 -100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 16 0.00000479 16 -100%
2021 23 0.000006789 23 -100%
2022 16 0.000004729 16 -100%
2023 12 0.000003624 12 -100%
2024 13 0.000003906 13 -100%

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