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How popular is “Westen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Westen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Westen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Westen” 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
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 -100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 -100%
1992 8 0.000002083 8 -100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 -100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 -100%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 -100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 -100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 -100%
2000 21 0.000005556 21 -100%
2001 17 0.000004541 17 -100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 -100%
2003 21 0.000005523 21 -100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 -100%
2005 23 0.000005982 23 -100%
2006 21 0.000005308 21 -100%
2007 35 0.000008755 35 -100%
2008 41 0.000010431 41 -100%
2009 53 0.000013874 53 -100%
2010 69 0.00001867 69 -100%
2011 63 0.000017224 63 -100%
2012 85 0.000023241 85 -100%
2013 93 0.00002551 93 -100%
2014 75 0.000020235 75 -100%
2015 78 0.000021076 78 -100%
2016 62 0.0000169 62 -100%
2017 77 0.000021531 77 -100%
2018 73 0.000020763 73 -100%
2019 74 0.00002132 74 -100%
2020 81 0.000024247 81 -100%
2021 125 0.000036895 125 -100%
2022 123 0.000036357 123 -100%
2023 117 0.000035335 117 -100%
2024 134 0.000040258 134 -100%

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