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How popular is “Waylyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Waylyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Waylyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Waylyn” 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
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 -100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 -100%
2015 11 0.000002972 5 6 -9%
2016 18 0.000004906 6 12 -33%
2017 22 0.000006152 10 12 -9%
2018 19 0.000005404 6 13 -37%
2019 37 0.00001066 13 24 -30%
2020 30 0.00000898 11 19 -27%
2021 34 0.000010036 17 17 0%
2022 37 0.000010937 10 27 -46%
2023 51 0.000015402 14 37 -45%
2024 43 0.000012919 14 29 -35%

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