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How popular is “Whitley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Whitley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Whitley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Whitley” 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
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 50 0.000013867 50 100%
1988 521 0.000141 508 13 95%
1989 492 0.000127977 480 12 95%
1990 448 0.000113347 432 16 93%
1991 375 0.000096271 365 10 95%
1992 243 0.00006326 236 7 94%
1993 206 0.000054638 206 100%
1994 187 0.000050301 182 5 95%
1995 146 0.000039867 140 6 92%
1996 134 0.000036741 127 7 90%
1997 111 0.000030614 105 6 89%
1998 116 0.000031537 110 6 90%
1999 104 0.000028155 104 100%
2000 104 0.000027514 104 100%
2001 90 0.000024042 90 100%
2002 99 0.000026483 99 100%
2003 83 0.000021829 83 100%
2004 92 0.000024078 92 100%
2005 91 0.000023668 82 9 80%
2006 90 0.000022749 81 9 80%
2007 81 0.000020262 75 6 85%
2008 82 0.000020862 75 7 83%
2009 111 0.000029056 106 5 91%
2010 127 0.000034364 121 6 91%
2011 164 0.000044836 156 8 90%
2012 168 0.000045935 157 11 87%
2013 185 0.000050745 170 15 84%
2014 211 0.000056929 197 14 87%
2015 238 0.000064308 222 16 87%
2016 284 0.000077412 251 33 77%
2017 300 0.000083888 258 42 72%
2018 306 0.000087033 262 44 71%
2019 328 0.000094499 281 47 71%
2020 308 0.0000922 271 37 76%
2021 370 0.000109211 320 50 73%
2022 378 0.000111731 315 63 67%
2023 462 0.000139527 383 79 66%
2024 494 0.000148415 417 77 69%

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