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How popular is “Welford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Welford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Welford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Welford” 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
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1915 11 0.000006003 11 -100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 -100%
1917 14 0.000006976 14 -100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1921 11 0.000004712 11 -100%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 -100%
1923 17 0.000007383 17 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 19 0.000008143 19 -100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 11 0.000004865 11 -100%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 -100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 10 0.000004736 10 -100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 -100%
1934 8 0.000003852 8 -100%
1935 11 0.000005263 11 -100%
1936 13 0.000006257 13 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 13 0.000005336 13 -100%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 -100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 -100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 -100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 -100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%

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