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How popular is “Welles” in the USA?

Number of people named “Welles” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Welles” by birth year

This chart shows how “Welles” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 -100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 -100%
2015 19 0.000005134 19 -100%
2016 32 0.000008722 32 -100%
2017 46 0.000012863 46 -100%
2018 46 0.000013083 46 -100%
2019 45 0.000012965 5 40 -78%
2020 38 0.000011375 5 33 -74%
2021 56 0.000016529 56 -100%
2022 43 0.00001271 43 -100%
2023 31 0.000009362 31 -100%
2024 32 0.000009614 32 -100%

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