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How popular is “Wesson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wesson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Wesson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wesson” 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
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 -100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 -100%
2008 25 0.00000636 25 -100%
2009 42 0.000010994 42 -100%
2010 35 0.00000947 35 -100%
2011 63 0.000017224 63 -100%
2012 87 0.000023788 87 -100%
2013 103 0.000028253 103 -100%
2014 158 0.000042629 158 -100%
2015 185 0.000049988 185 -100%
2016 205 0.000055878 205 -100%
2017 242 0.00006767 242 -100%
2018 236 0.000067124 236 -100%
2019 245 0.000070586 5 240 -96%
2020 268 0.000080226 268 -100%
2021 306 0.00009032 306 -100%
2022 251 0.000074192 251 -100%
2023 238 0.000071877 238 -100%
2024 240 0.000072105 240 -100%

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