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How popular is “Wendell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wendell” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Wendell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wendell” 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 6 0.000029779 6 -100%
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 -100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 12 0.000047001 12 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 17 0.000056766 17 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1890 11 0.000036496 11 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1892 21 0.000062804 21 -100%
1893 11 0.000033823 11 -100%
1894 21 0.000062004 21 -100%
1895 23 0.000065523 23 -100%
1896 18 0.000050352 18 -100%
1897 24 0.000069173 24 -100%
1898 23 0.000060295 23 -100%
1899 22 0.000064852 22 -100%
1900 30 0.000066628 30 -100%
1901 18 0.000052051 18 -100%
1902 38 0.000098259 38 -100%
1903 22 0.000057712 22 -100%
1904 32 0.000079309 32 -100%
1905 31 0.000073127 31 -100%
1906 40 0.00009336 40 -100%
1907 42 0.000090247 42 -100%
1908 63 0.000128927 63 -100%
1909 50 0.000097804 50 -100%
1910 69 0.000116808 69 -100%
1911 94 0.0001459 94 -100%
1912 212 0.000214561 212 -100%
1913 252 0.000221614 9 243 -93%
1914 350 0.000247115 350 -100%
1915 490 0.000267405 490 -100%
1916 515 0.00026623 515 -100%
1917 466 0.000232216 466 -100%
1918 519 0.000239048 519 -100%
1919 473 0.000224145 473 -100%
1920 555 0.000245288 11 544 -96%
1921 592 0.000253587 5 587 -98%
1922 609 0.000266037 9 600 -97%
1923 622 0.000270143 5 617 -98%
1924 633 0.000265787 633 -100%
1925 689 0.00029529 7 682 -98%
1926 640 0.000278757 640 -100%
1927 634 0.000273351 8 626 -97%
1928 666 0.000294568 8 658 -98%
1929 649 0.000296055 10 639 -97%
1930 679 0.000305404 7 672 -98%
1931 651 0.000309354 10 641 -97%
1932 655 0.000310237 5 650 -98%
1933 599 0.000299583 6 593 -98%
1934 618 0.000297571 618 -100%
1935 661 0.000316283 6 655 -98%
1936 629 0.000302756 629 -100%
1937 592 0.000277847 9 583 -97%
1938 586 0.00026485 6 580 -98%
1939 596 0.000270486 596 -100%
1940 1650 0.000716555 25 1625 -97%
1941 1109 0.000455175 15 1094 -97%
1942 859 0.000314443 13 846 -97%
1943 818 0.000289808 6 812 -99%
1944 702 0.000260959 5 697 -99%
1945 597 0.000225036 10 587 -97%
1946 625 0.000195599 12 613 -96%
1947 728 0.000202092 12 716 -97%
1948 687 0.000198985 11 676 -97%
1949 723 0.000207474 11 712 -97%
1950 854 0.000243766 12 842 -97%
1951 880 0.000238888 9 871 -98%
1952 886 0.00023328 7 879 -98%
1953 902 0.000234064 16 886 -96%
1954 968 0.000243173 23 945 -95%
1955 978 0.000243582 12 966 -98%
1956 1022 0.000247876 9 1013 -98%
1957 1127 0.000268196 14 1113 -98%
1958 1200 0.000290283 11 1189 -98%
1959 1222 0.000293892 21 1201 -97%
1960 1157 0.000278539 11 1146 -98%
1961 1234 0.000297902 14 1220 -98%
1962 1113 0.000275811 21 1092 -96%
1963 1088 0.000274872 13 1075 -98%
1964 1034 0.000265974 20 1014 -96%
1965 872 0.000240522 10 862 -98%
1966 723 0.000208018 7 716 -98%
1967 681 0.000200595 15 666 -96%
1968 630 0.000186478 15 615 -95%
1969 576 0.00016574 15 561 -95%
1970 537 0.000148897 537 -100%
1971 535 0.00015587 535 -100%
1972 441 0.000140312 9 432 -96%
1973 389 0.000128941 389 -100%
1974 329 0.000108224 329 -100%
1975 329 0.000108962 6 323 -96%
1976 283 0.000093267 283 -100%
1977 294 0.000092555 5 289 -97%
1978 325 0.000102399 6 319 -96%
1979 279 0.000083859 279 -100%
1980 322 0.000093482 5 317 -97%
1981 300 0.000086721 300 -100%
1982 310 0.00008837 7 303 -95%
1983 285 0.000082291 8 277 -94%
1984 257 0.000073665 257 -100%
1985 248 0.000069485 248 -100%
1986 233 0.000065503 233 -100%
1987 213 0.000059075 213 -100%
1988 239 0.000064681 239 -100%
1989 229 0.000059566 229 -100%
1990 222 0.000056167 222 -100%
1991 193 0.000049547 193 -100%
1992 186 0.000048421 186 -100%
1993 186 0.000049333 186 -100%
1994 153 0.000041155 153 -100%
1995 160 0.00004369 160 -100%
1996 120 0.000032902 120 -100%
1997 117 0.000032269 117 -100%
1998 104 0.000028275 104 -100%
1999 114 0.000030862 114 -100%
2000 99 0.000026191 99 -100%
2001 94 0.000025111 94 -100%
2002 108 0.00002889 108 -100%
2003 90 0.00002367 90 -100%
2004 93 0.00002434 93 -100%
2005 84 0.000021847 84 -100%
2006 96 0.000024266 96 -100%
2007 79 0.000019761 79 -100%
2008 88 0.000022388 88 -100%
2009 73 0.000019109 73 -100%
2010 61 0.000016505 61 -100%
2011 52 0.000014216 52 -100%
2012 72 0.000019686 72 -100%
2013 71 0.000019475 71 -100%
2014 79 0.000021315 79 -100%
2015 76 0.000020535 76 -100%
2016 90 0.000024532 90 -100%
2017 76 0.000021252 76 -100%
2018 76 0.000021616 76 -100%
2019 83 0.000023913 5 78 -88%
2020 67 0.000020056 67 -100%
2021 83 0.000024499 83 -100%
2022 96 0.000028376 96 -100%
2023 101 0.000030503 101 -100%
2024 73 0.000021932 73 -100%

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