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How popular is “Wanda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wanda” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Wanda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wanda” 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 11 0.000054595 11 100%
1881 6 0.000031138 6 100%
1882 10 0.00004514 10 100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 100%
1885 12 0.000049823 12 100%
1886 12 0.000047001 12 100%
1887 29 0.000117223 29 100%
1888 22 0.000073462 22 100%
1889 25 0.000086521 25 100%
1890 37 0.00012276 37 100%
1891 47 0.00016395 47 100%
1892 37 0.000110655 37 100%
1893 59 0.000181414 59 100%
1894 52 0.000153533 52 100%
1895 62 0.000176628 62 100%
1896 58 0.000162245 58 100%
1897 83 0.000239223 83 100%
1898 106 0.000277883 106 100%
1899 85 0.000250565 85 100%
1900 94 0.000208769 94 100%
1901 81 0.000234231 81 100%
1902 106 0.000274091 106 100%
1903 134 0.000351522 134 100%
1904 116 0.000287495 116 100%
1905 125 0.000294866 125 100%
1906 173 0.00040378 173 100%
1907 200 0.000429747 200 100%
1908 226 0.0004625 226 100%
1909 272 0.000532056 272 100%
1910 308 0.000521406 308 100%
1911 380 0.000589808 380 100%
1912 545 0.000551585 545 100%
1913 687 0.000604163 687 100%
1914 881 0.000622024 881 100%
1915 1233 0.000672878 1233 100%
1916 1505 0.000778012 1505 100%
1917 1551 0.000772892 1545 6 99%
1918 1834 0.000844729 1827 7 99%
1919 1824 0.000864355 1824 100%
1920 2198 0.00097143 2198 100%
1921 2747 0.001176695 2738 9 99%
1922 2993 0.001307469 2986 7 100%
1923 3411 0.001481446 3405 6 100%
1924 3744 0.001572046 3735 9 100%
1925 3811 0.001633308 3803 8 100%
1926 4138 0.001802339 4125 13 99%
1927 4321 0.001863016 4302 19 99%
1928 4333 0.001916461 4318 15 99%
1929 4420 0.002016275 4397 23 99%
1930 4539 0.002041571 4524 15 99%
1931 4419 0.002099898 4395 24 99%
1932 4279 0.002026722 4261 18 99%
1933 4287 0.002144093 4268 19 99%
1934 4395 0.00211622 4368 27 99%
1935 4119 0.001970908 4102 17 99%
1936 3892 0.001873335 3882 10 99%
1937 4218 0.001979659 4202 16 99%
1938 4535 0.002049649 4513 22 99%
1939 4574 0.002075843 4557 17 99%
1940 4733 0.002055427 4708 25 99%
1941 4756 0.00195204 4735 21 99%
1942 4814 0.001762196 4792 22 99%
1943 4725 0.001674013 4705 20 99%
1944 4453 0.001655342 4431 22 99%
1945 4312 0.001625385 4295 17 99%
1946 5250 0.001643035 5235 15 99%
1947 5654 0.001569543 5649 5 100%
1948 5934 0.001718746 5919 15 99%
1949 6319 0.001813316 6307 12 100%
1950 6946 0.001982669 6929 17 100%
1951 7245 0.001966752 7232 13 100%
1952 7182 0.001890993 7163 19 99%
1953 7222 0.00187407 7205 17 100%
1954 7470 0.001876551 7446 24 99%
1955 7426 0.001849527 7415 11 100%
1956 7569 0.001835783 7547 22 99%
1957 7734 0.001840489 7712 22 99%
1958 6913 0.001672269 6891 22 99%
1959 6928 0.001666189 6907 21 99%
1960 6701 0.001613216 6676 25 99%
1961 6497 0.001568452 6465 32 99%
1962 6025 0.001493047 6004 21 99%
1963 5629 0.001422111 5594 35 99%
1964 5188 0.001334498 5165 23 99%
1965 4670 0.001288116 4655 15 99%
1966 4117 0.001184525 4094 23 99%
1967 3491 0.001028308 3473 18 99%
1968 2986 0.000883847 2963 23 98%
1969 2699 0.000776618 2684 15 99%
1970 2726 0.000755855 2718 8 99%
1971 2374 0.000691653 2365 9 99%
1972 1783 0.000567293 1775 8 99%
1973 1419 0.000470352 1412 7 99%
1974 1212 0.000398684 1205 7 99%
1975 1057 0.00035007 1057 100%
1976 856 0.000282108 856 100%
1977 736 0.000231702 729 7 98%
1978 588 0.000185263 588 100%
1979 576 0.000173129 576 100%
1980 481 0.000139643 481 100%
1981 457 0.000132105 457 100%
1982 340 0.000096922 335 5 97%
1983 326 0.000094129 319 7 96%
1984 298 0.000085417 293 5 97%
1985 234 0.000065563 234 100%
1986 187 0.000052571 182 5 95%
1987 223 0.000061848 218 5 96%
1988 175 0.000047361 175 100%
1989 179 0.000046561 179 100%
1990 191 0.000048324 191 100%
1991 172 0.000044156 172 100%
1992 122 0.00003176 122 100%
1993 133 0.000035276 133 100%
1994 97 0.000026092 97 100%
1995 91 0.000024849 91 100%
1996 79 0.00002166 79 100%
1997 59 0.000016272 59 100%
1998 72 0.000019575 72 100%
1999 79 0.000021387 79 100%
2000 63 0.000016667 63 100%
2001 57 0.000015227 57 100%
2002 64 0.00001712 64 100%
2003 69 0.000018147 69 100%
2004 36 0.000009422 36 100%
2005 49 0.000012744 49 100%
2006 30 0.000007583 30 100%
2007 30 0.000007504 30 100%
2008 38 0.000009668 38 100%
2009 43 0.000011256 43 100%
2010 18 0.00000487 18 100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 100%
2012 28 0.000007656 28 100%
2013 30 0.000008229 30 100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 100%
2015 25 0.000006755 25 100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 100%
2017 27 0.00000755 27 100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 100%
2020 18 0.000005388 18 100%
2021 36 0.000010626 36 100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 100%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 100%
2024 26 0.000007811 26 100%

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