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How popular is “Whitney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Whitney” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Whitney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Whitney” 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
1884 9 0.000036967 9 -100%
1889 8 0.000027687 8 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 -100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 -100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1909 13 0.000025429 13 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 -100%
1912 15 0.000015181 15 -100%
1913 33 0.000029021 33 -100%
1914 36 0.000025418 36 -100%
1915 45 0.000024558 45 -100%
1916 50 0.000025848 50 -100%
1917 42 0.000020929 42 -100%
1918 49 0.000022569 49 -100%
1919 45 0.000021325 45 -100%
1920 60 0.000026518 60 -100%
1921 57 0.000024416 57 -100%
1922 47 0.000020532 47 -100%
1923 41 0.000017807 41 -100%
1924 38 0.000015956 38 -100%
1925 41 0.000017572 41 -100%
1926 39 0.000016987 39 -100%
1927 36 0.000015522 36 -100%
1928 36 0.000015923 36 -100%
1929 39 0.000017791 39 -100%
1930 46 0.00002069 46 -100%
1931 49 0.000023285 49 -100%
1932 30 0.000014209 30 -100%
1933 42 0.000021006 42 -100%
1934 30 0.000014445 30 -100%
1935 32 0.000015312 32 -100%
1936 25 0.000012033 6 19 -52%
1937 32 0.000015019 6 26 -63%
1938 45 0.000020338 13 32 -42%
1939 26 0.0000118 5 21 -62%
1940 60 0.000026057 10 50 -67%
1941 45 0.00001847 10 35 -56%
1942 53 0.000019401 11 42 -58%
1943 50 0.000017714 8 42 -68%
1944 46 0.0000171 9 37 -61%
1945 53 0.000019978 9 44 -66%
1946 59 0.000018465 11 48 -63%
1947 50 0.00001388 13 37 -48%
1948 50 0.000014482 6 44 -76%
1949 45 0.000012913 8 37 -64%
1950 59 0.000016841 15 44 -49%
1951 55 0.00001493 55 -100%
1952 74 0.000019484 20 54 -46%
1953 59 0.00001531 11 48 -63%
1954 61 0.000015324 11 50 -64%
1955 62 0.000015442 10 52 -68%
1956 54 0.000013097 11 43 -59%
1957 64 0.00001523 14 50 -56%
1958 75 0.000018143 19 56 -49%
1959 65 0.000015633 11 54 -66%
1960 81 0.0000195 29 52 -28%
1961 117 0.000028245 48 69 -18%
1962 266 0.000065917 191 75 44%
1963 351 0.000088677 271 80 54%
1964 453 0.000116524 331 122 46%
1965 383 0.000105642 296 87 55%
1966 301 0.000086602 224 77 49%
1967 293 0.000086306 220 73 50%
1968 333 0.000098567 249 84 50%
1969 355 0.000102149 288 67 62%
1970 430 0.000119229 351 79 63%
1971 427 0.000124404 327 100 53%
1972 359 0.000114222 297 62 65%
1973 358 0.000118665 294 64 64%
1974 441 0.000145066 368 73 67%
1975 477 0.000157979 412 65 73%
1976 599 0.00019741 533 66 78%
1977 782 0.000246183 693 89 77%
1978 883 0.000278209 778 105 76%
1979 1081 0.000324917 950 131 76%
1980 1310 0.000380316 1169 141 78%
1981 1437 0.000415393 1302 135 81%
1982 1632 0.000465227 1478 154 81%
1983 1854 0.000535322 1688 166 82%
1984 2488 0.000713148 2287 201 84%
1985 4068 0.00113978 3832 236 88%
1986 9781 0.002749729 9536 245 95%
1987 9078 0.00251774 8923 155 97%
1988 7966 0.002155861 7851 115 97%
1989 6387 0.001661357 6306 81 97%
1990 5982 0.001513481 5905 77 97%
1991 5277 0.001354722 5239 38 99%
1992 4042 0.001052255 4010 32 98%
1993 4103 0.001088248 4078 25 99%
1994 3591 0.000965932 3566 25 99%
1995 2806 0.000766215 2780 26 98%
1996 2337 0.000640766 2310 27 98%
1997 1978 0.000545542 1961 17 98%
1998 1627 0.000442335 1611 16 98%
1999 1444 0.000390918 1426 18 98%
2000 1217 0.000321966 1194 23 96%
2001 910 0.000243095 899 11 98%
2002 866 0.000231657 851 15 97%
2003 690 0.000181468 675 15 96%
2004 700 0.000183202 676 24 93%
2005 663 0.000172439 652 11 97%
2006 583 0.000147364 564 19 93%
2007 544 0.000136079 533 11 96%
2008 551 0.00014018 543 8 97%
2009 604 0.000158108 595 9 97%
2010 551 0.000149091 541 10 96%
2011 568 0.000155285 563 5 98%
2012 528 0.000144366 523 5 98%
2013 491 0.00013468 482 9 96%
2014 478 0.000128967 463 15 94%
2015 453 0.000122402 446 7 97%
2016 387 0.000105487 375 12 94%
2017 341 0.000095353 328 13 92%
2018 307 0.000087318 299 8 95%
2019 311 0.000089601 303 8 95%
2020 284 0.000085015 273 11 92%
2021 267 0.000078809 246 21 84%
2022 261 0.000077147 245 16 88%
2023 278 0.000083958 262 16 88%
2024 251 0.000075409 238 13 90%

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